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Originally Posted by spikeraw22
Perhaps I misspoke. Thanks for jumping all over it in proper internet etiquette.
What I meant was that they made the games tougher. Not unbeatable. There was a time when I could easily find a table with at least 7 fish with no clue and maybe 2-3 who had some idea even if it was just to lose more slowly. By the time COVID hit those numbers were flipped. Note, that I attribute most of that to the average poker “pro” being a dick and driving the fish away with their personalities more than their play.
The online games are night and day easier compared to a couple years ago. Maybe it’ll be similar for live games is all I’m saying.
Games are better live, because a lot of the foreign traveling pros are back in their country while the COVID situation drew to the casino the people whose risk probability assessment skills were even worse than the pre-pandemic population. Games were better online because fish were bored, had nothing to do and this was as good a chance as any to donk off a couple of buyins.
Games in general were better because the government threw a lot of money and a lot of recreational spending had nowhere else to go.
There will be a transition period in which those factors help some. But in the end, my bet would be that the games would return to their constantly growing tougher trend.
Having said that, I 've been working on my game and I see areas in which I made mistakes. I also see mistakes other players make that I haven't been able to do before. This is an indication of how much money are still up for grabs. All the same, it's requiring more and more effort to improve and you would think that a lot of other people worked on their games during the COVID break. I would definitely expect a few people to be on a beast mode when things go back to normal.