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Originally Posted by timeofyouppi
While online helped introduce people to poker and eventually push people into live casino poker prior to Black Friday; the level of play online today is vastly higher than 10 years ago and my guess is that prospective players would get wiped out online and give up, but there's no strong direct evidence.
People get wiped out at slots, table games, sports betting, dice, roulette, pulltabs, horse racing, greyhound racing, or any other house edge game and yet, this doesn't stop them from buying into those games and smiling on the way out the door. I don't think winning players felting non-winning players is going to stop people from buying in and trying their "luck".
Fun players want fun. They get this more at the live tables with the conversation and the drinks and the promo board with the $200,000 unhittable jackpot that they can dream about and the atmosphere.
I'll continue to play live and hope they never bring back nationwide online poker. Black Friday...Best thing that ever happened to poker