Lol nah I’m good, just found it funny how you guys got awe bothered by Koon, white knight

I found it funny seeing Koon shellshocked after being told to shut the **** up. But that's what happens when you do the everyone's best friend act. No respect lol.

Soft

Are you bud? No one is “white knighting” here lol, except maybe you for Koon. He’s not gonna notice you if you defend him on the internet

I guess in the same way that I found it funny how you got all bothered by people criticizing Koon. But alright

edit: you’re even calling Koon soft now too? lmao. Koon almost agreed with jmo there

Yes, soft

If back in 1880s on some steamboat Smith would have been thrown overboard for what he did. And everyone would have laughed and said well done.

But in 2023, all fingers pointed at Koon which deflects away from Smith. Then Koon takes to the twitters apologizing but Smith didn’t for making playing poker with him miserable.

based

So koons apologized? buckled under the pressure. Pathetic.

Doesn't he kno this is a steamboat?

Lol this made me laugh

But 2023 players are a bunch of wimps. Scammers and cheaters roam free, occasionally someone attacks them on Twitter using piosolver evidence but that’s about it.

The end result of this are people yelling at Koon because of “omgosh confrontation!”. Meanwhile no admission or apology from Smith that he is miserable to play with.

Yellowbellies lol, and people wonder why poker is dying and sit around aimlessly hoping for another boom. Keeping the players you currently have is a good start.

From my perspective it seems like we're in the middle of a massive poker boom, could be wrong though

People who say this are clearly saying they are too young to remember the actual boom.

seen them both at the bellagio having dinner together could mean something. snapped a couple creep shots trying to figure out how to upload on mobile stand by

I think it depends what evidence you consider. Certainly the game has been brought to more peoples' attention through the popularity of livestreams and all the drama around them, Doug Polk and others' youtube channels and Polk's poker room/livestream, poker Twitch streamers, etc.
Also, during COVID, interest in strategy games increased, chess.com experienced like 3x growth of users in a 6 month period.
In addition to poker receiving more public attention, you now have user friendly GTO studying programs online at a reasonable price point and the accessibility for a newbie into the game has never been higher.

On the other hand, if you consider the evidence presented by this video, you have (afaik, I don't know Winter but I mean kurganov, koon, o dwyer, chidwick, Dan S) a table literally full of professional players discussing the "VIP" players who support their incomes in these high roller live MTTs. It's a pretty fragile/delicate ecosystem where the edges are very small and any skilled player who can find a backer can in theory push into these games. For these reasons, I can see someone making the argument that "poker is dying."

I mean, was there even anything like the Triton series in 2006?

No, but Party Poker was running National TV commercials, the WPT on The Travel Channel was getting enormous ratings, with replays even higher than premieres, the “Big 3” sites (pre Full Tilt) of Stars, Party, UB were directly buying in approximately 25% of the WSOP Main Event field (3rd party buyins no longer allowed). So yeah, 2006 was epic boom times in poker.

grunching.

im halfway through the disagreement but how is that one dude trying to calm them down LMAO?? has to be -ev just stfu and let them air their grievances LMAO. hes the worst out of the 3, just let them disagree with each other nobody is getting personal. other players who got irate at both of those would have tiltled me

lol who cares about the triton series.
in 2006 everywhere you went people were playing poker, it had absolutely exploded.
BBQs,parties, bars etc everyone was playing poker.
Games were incredible everywhere including online (As the other poster mentioned the online sites giving out tons of seats to the main event advertising everywhere etc) and not the technology wars they've become with people using solvers and rta to grind out tiny edges on mass volume.
Go ask a random person if they know what the Triton series are and they won't even know it refers to poker.
Hell most people in a poker room probably don't know about the Triton series and if they do they don't care what it is.
I've seen people in poker rooms streaming HCL or talking about hands from there but have not seen or heard 1 single person mention anything about the Triton Series.

+1 lolz for Triton Series

Back in 2006 you could go into a bar and they would have the NBC HU Tournament on TV

and probably a 6 table tournament running in the back of the bar

Cringe af

Now Koon asks for a refund on his tourney because he chose to play a tourney while his wife is heavily pregnant and she goes into labor. Snowflake calling out a snowflake

From my understanding some of these Triton events REQUIRE professionals to be sponsored by a VIP. Meaning the VIPs are allowed to play the tournament and they can hand select one pro to play. If a pro is not selected by a VIP they cannot play. I also understand that in those Triton tournaments the VIPs play each other for the first X amount of levels and the pros play together for X amount of levels and then the player pool is mixed. I'm not sure if that this tournament followed that format, but the VIP term is the default term used by Triton for non-professionals.

They call them VIPs because it sounds better than whale.........

That is certainly true.