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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 2064294, member: 23910"] What happened was that poker boomed in the mid-naughties on the back of the WPT being on TV and Chris Moneymaker winning the WSOP. For a lot of people though it was just a trend - like the swing music revival during the 90s. People jumped on board for a little while, got bored of it and moved on. It's the same way with all trends and fads. [B]Poker, bluntly, isn't cool any more.[/B] There were a number of players who got into poker during the boom and then stayed around though (myself included, along with many of you too I'm sure). So as a result the game is now much bigger than it was pre-boom, but it's not as big as it was at the height of the boom. WSOP Main Event attendances tell the story as well as anything else: attendances are well up these days on pre-boom numbers, but they're never even close to reaching the 8,773 that played in 2006. [/QUOTE]