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Originally Posted by LOLOL
Because "poker" isn't centrally managed with a leader who has authority to execute decisions for the benefit of 'poker'.
As is the case with any leaderless group of people, the end result will be the sum of whatever random actions the individual participants do. Its not something that is strategically directed, so this is basically a ******ed premise and probably sheds light on why you said something like "If you're so smart..." (projecting insecurity over being dumb)
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football didn't become america's sport because a bunch of football players got together and decided they need to become more entertaining or whatever. the chess streaming boom happened in large part because netflix made queen's gambit.
The simple fact is that live poker is boring unless you're playing with your friends. The boom was lightning in a bottle: perfect storm of joe schmoe winning a huge amount of money, ESPN being in everyone's home and broadcasting WSOP in an entertaining way, and a bunch of fish thinking it's gonna be their next get rich quick scheme (it used to be day trading, and nowadays it's crypto trading, and soon crypto trading will be gone as well).
I'm pretty sick of everyone complaining about grinders wearing hoodies and whatever: the personalities came around because HSP and ESPN catered their broadcasting to focus on the personalities, and for whatever reason, they're not as interested in that anymore. Tom Dwan didn't become a poker celebrity by his own hand, he became a celeb because TV networks saw he was entertaining invited him to be on TV, it's not that hard.
Poker is still quite popular: it's definitely not going the way of bridge or anything. I saw Phil Hellmuth on the TV at the gym yesterday. I recently graduated from college and I ran into so many 20 year-old men who were interested in poker all the time, many of which wanted to play $0.50/$1 with me on Friday nights.
Bunch of 2p2ers aren't gonna make much of an effect one way or another, unless they have someone's ear at Netflix.
Last edited by JohnRusty; 09-03-2021 at 12:09 AM.