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Originally Posted by Codecci
Depends for who. For example, how is it going to be good for midstakes regular if another estonian picks up the game? There will be almost 0 estonian fish who donk off at midstakes since average wage is quite low and there are HUGE incentives for bustos to become good, and some might become regulars who take money out of poker.
It could be even argued that it's not true for only midstakes, but to all regulars. Few years ago Estonia was a winning country according to PTR. Even if it's not true today, there is no way Estonia loses money pre-rake.
So how is it exactly good for professional players if another estonian picks up poker?
What I said is that
its never bad to introduce a new player to the game. Obviouly if I decide to pick a random person on the street and tell him: "Hey, I will teach you how to win at online poker." and then proceed to educate him on strategy and all aspects of the game then yes, its likely that person will not be good for poker.
To answer your question, there might be different reasons that Estonia used(?) to be a winning country, here are a few of them If I have to speculate:
1) very small country so only handful of people playing
2) most likely the sucessful players from Estonia know/help eachother
3) results extremely skewed because of a a few Estonian players that are winning a lot of money combined with not many estonian players in the first place
How fast do you think someone who cant afford to deposit/lose any significant amount of money can start from scratch and turn into a sucessuful online poker player? Overcome all emotional aspects of the game (tilt, etc), learn strategy and build a bankroll at the same time on the high rake micro stakes with no private coach to guide him?
You can make an argument "How is it good to introduce the MIT students to the game?" Well probably MIT students have better things to do than getting into a script seating war for the Jesus seat in order to win a couple of thousands bucks?
Introducing new masses of people to the game cant be a bad thing, its only a bad thing if the person introducing them also offers sigificant amount of help along the way and Im pretty sure streaming on Twitch is no where near private coaching or anything of that sort.
Last edited by Jayus; 04-10-2015 at 06:11 PM.