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Message: [QUOTE="rawone, post: 2055606, member: 95060"] I think it's like anything that trends and burns brightly. It comes and it goes for some people, and remains consistent for the rest of us. Online poker certainly drove a "fad", it was one of the first things online outside of pr0n and piracy that drove online usage. Remember, there was plenty of online poker a long time before there was a facebook, twitter, or that other stuff. That drive online put a lot of money on the table, so to speak, and those online companies such as PP took that online part and used it as a publicity shove behind the WPT and such, getting it in the public's eye. However, everything that goes up must go down, right? With the convoluted legal situation in the US, as well as many credit card companies worldwide refusing to be part of payment processing for poker, the flame has turned down in the public's mind. On US TV, many of the poker related shows that were on disappeared after Black Friday, such as Poker After Dark. That change in exposure in the US market of course changes things for the casual player. The inability for US players to get to play online (without working on it) means that many of them just stopped. When the online part stops, it tends to drag into a loss of home games as they get onto some other trend and pattern. Funny enough, I am just old enough to have seen people dragged through the same deal in 9 ball pool. That's another situation where TV exposure and a few other things came together for a short period of time to really drive an industry, which all but fell off the map afterwards (unlike billards, different situation). What is good is that the real poker players in the US, the people with real interest and real time to put into are still there. There are more and more legal casinos to visit that offer NLH as their main poker game, and more and more people really playing live, in person, and enjoying it. If the US manages to fix the legal environment, you can expect another upswing as online poker will get another chance (just like the skateboard!) to fly in the public's eye. [/QUOTE]

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