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Originally Posted by borg23
What innovations are you referring to specifically?
Nobody is forced to gamble more than they're comfortable with. There are plenty of low gamble/no gamble games out there.
But it's pretty clear gambling type innovations have happened bc some people actually want to gamble and not be sliced up by tanking gto pros regurgitating solver outputs.
I'm a big fan of trying new things in poker that could be fun, involve people actually gambling, and having to figure things out on their own.
In addition to bomb pots, you have things like mandatory straddles/restraddle, 27 game, stand up game, 5 card PLO, etc. All these thinks force people to gamble above the normal stakes of the game.
I understand why people who have been playing NLHE forever would want to add these things, because it’s reasonable for them to feel like NLHE has become boring and “solved”.
But these things are also going to be very intimidating to new players who are just starting to dip their toes into the poker waters and only want to risk their money slowly while they are learning.
It seems like the the poker economy has become entirely oriented toward trying to ge whales to throw as much money into the pot as fast as possible instead of growing the game from the ground up.
I love the WSOP, and think it is one of the few organizations that has been pretty consistent in keeping a good balance between appealing to casual and professional players. It’s also been great at continuing to promote poker variants that have died out allmost everywhere else (despite the fact that many of these variants are hitting attendance records as consistently as NLHE). I’d just hate to see this balance upset.