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Message: [QUOTE="teutonic1, post: 5944464, member: 344065"] With the advent of online poker, poker is unlikely to "dry up" per say. Yet, if anyone was playing in the early days of online poker, the experience was vastly different. Free money, juicy games, new sites everywhere, huge player pools, and just pure gambling. As a fish, I loved the action. But then I realised I had to "learn" poker. Not as fun but maybe more interesting - esp physcologically speaking. That easy money got gobbled up pretty quickly but televised poker and big rewards kept the juggernaut rolling. People tend to forget that live poker had its ups and downs in the US. At one time it was a normal recreational and social activity that was replaced by other activities as the middle class incomes increased. Popular poker took a huge dive. Today, during Covid, a small online resurgence occurred but it was short lived. People just don't have the rec funds to loose any more, and even an average player today is somewhat of a shark compared to 20 years ago. 40 years of non-stop concentration of capital and power in ever fewer hands has squeezed working people's incomes across the middle spectrum. So I don't expect an upsurge any time soon. Or maybe ever again if we stay on the same economic trajectory. But I suspect the rec player, maybe a bit more savvier than most of their predecessors, will be around as long as people like betting and waiting to see what the next turned card brings. If anything was to resurrect the glory days, imho, it would be the re-emergence of USA players being allowed to play freely like most of the rest of the world. Don't see it happening anytime soon. [/QUOTE]

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