- The legal landscape in the US was always, is always, and will always be the most dominant factor to the change in online poker.
- I have first hand knowledge, I have hard data, that proves online poker coaching sites actually help extend the lives of recreational (fish) players (as opposed to the opposite.)
- It's my opinion that Twitch will expand the game, and will be only good for the game of online poker in the long run.
Anyone who says that poker coaching is the most damaging factor to online poker is simply naive.
Declaring something illegal via UIGEA, is by FAR the biggest factor and it's not even close. Black Friday, April 15th, 2011,
vaporized approximately 10 MILLION players from the US.
10,000,000 players!
I believe the next largest market was the UK for online poker around ~2 million, Germany~1.6m, France ~1.2 at that time. I can only assume w/o the US pool that these markets have extremely shunk as well.
Last edited by Joe Tall; 04-09-2015 at 11:33 PM.