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[QUOTE="ActAsIf, post: 961173, member: 45470"]
[b]Numbers from CardPlayer to back me up.[/b]

Pulled, sliced and diced from an article in CardPlayer:
 
PartyGaming is a publicly traded company that [U]was once[/U] the world’s largest poker room. 
The company made [B]$553 million[/B] from poker in [B]2004.[/B]
Its best poker year was [B]2005[/B], when the company pulled in [B]$859 million. [/B]
 
[B]But the bottom dropped out in 2006 when the company decided to leave the U.S. market because of the UIGEA[/B]. That year, it made [B]$268 million from poker [in 2006][/B]. 
 
In [B]2007,[/B] poker revenue rose to [B]$288.8 million[/B].
 
In the [B]first half of 2008, PartyGaming has made $153.9 million[/B] from poker.
 
Where did these people go? They can't all have gone to Pokerstars, and certainly nowhere else as a group. They either play poker in a non on-line venues or have left the game for something else (imo).
 
Anyone who wasn't dedicated enough to find a way back to a major on-line poker room is someone we [U]wanted [/U]to have around.
 
Think of how much bigger current poker action would be today if all those U.S. newbies weren't given such a hard time by the government as they were giving us their money. I shudder to think.
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