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Originally Posted by joedot
This annoys me and is wrong. The rise of bots and solvers are not even close to the biggest cause of the "death of online poker." Governments fighting poker, making for huge markets to be taken out of the global poker liquidity killed it. And all the consequences of that, where now a fish can't just whip out a credit card or paypal and hop online easily. Now you jump through all these hoops to get your account verified through neteller and then the site and it's a big pain in the ass. Fish don't like the hassle, they like to jump in a game quickly. That's what killed online poker, not bots.
agreed all of what you said is true for the us but in other countries you can just whip out your cc, use neteller etc. the us govt hurt games a lot but so have mass multitabling,bots,very sophisticated software,seat scripters etc. (all of which are just getting better and better.) it's not the govt's fault online games are boring as hell for anyone actually looking to gamble either.
I've said it before and i'll probably say it again- if tomorrow somehow all the good and break even players could clone themselves to play 20 tables at once live, live games would go to absolute **** and a lot of rec players would quit.
the us gov't probably sped things up by a few years- but the future of online poker, especially cash games is pretty bad.if the us govt never interfered with online poker it was still inevitable online poker was gonna go to ****. almost anyone who thinks they'll be grinding cash online for a good living in 5-10 years is an absolute moron.