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Message: [QUOTE="ilostmysoul, post: 2656513, member: 130341"] True, most people do enjoy gambling. And poker is one of the few games that gives them a sense of having more control. They are not playing against the house, they are playing against other people just like them, people that can actually lose and have no advantage over them (if we put knowledge and strategy aside). That's an interesting question :p I was thinking something along the lines of getting media (especially news) interested in poker as a kind of sport that people can study, I don't exactly agree with paying what should be free journalism and say "Here, have 1000 bucks and talk about us". How, otherwise, could we get them interested, I have no clue, I was just spitting out my idea. But if that's the question, then I'd go for countries with a big population and preferably that have the power to reach to international audiences. Russia, States, Brasil. If you can get 10.000 people or more from those countries interested in poker, then great. If the fuss is so big that news spread to other countries, awesome. On the other hand, I realize that efforts have been made towards this end in the past and eventually they got into a decline. If that's the case and media can't bring people back to tables, then I guess we need to let Hold'em die and prepare ourselves for a new game and new strategies down the road. Of course, advertising the game in the Internet, blogs, family, friends, college, schools, etc. and get every people into it, especially with newer generations (remember it's not illegal for people under 18 to play, it's just not allowed that they play for money or online) would be a major step too to prevent this. EDIT: Added some details, cleaned up some mistakes. [/QUOTE]

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