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.... Folks started playing online because of watching it on TV or seeing a commercial for easy $. That is where the online demand came from.
The b&m model and online model have always been the same because online poker literally copied casino poker brick for brick. Can you name the differences between the two business models? ...
This is not a personal attack, but I dispute your version of events because its clearly lacking context from someone who was also there...
P.S. yes I still buy books from a bookstore and so do many others.
1. Back to chickens and eggs. ....Ain't no business, ain't no show. Who do you think sponsored all those poker television shows and online marketing efforts ? It wasn't Binions*and it wasn't Jack's Links, either..
(*As an aside, one company once ran some television advertisements for the WSOP which were co-branded directly with Binions. That was short-lived.)
2. Funny you talk about online sites' copying the live experience as closely as possible in the context of online poker. I know for certain one site, which offered a 3D-like experience, made you pick your cards up to look at them, and encouraged chat on the table, and directly took that as a design and marketing strategy. Some other sites copied it, then they all abandoned it as multi-tabling demanded a more uniform, uncluttered experience ....
3. I can certainly describe the differences between the online poker business model and the traditional B&M live poker model, but that's too much of a digression from the thread topic and not something you just get for asking. Stick to your comfortably general belief that "that's all there is to it".
4. I don't know whose remarks you think lack context about online poker and WSOP evolution, but I do not recall seeing you "there" back in the day.
Lou is right about the derail, this has little to do with the thread, other than I think there is potential demand for all sorts of decentralized gambling, of which poker can be an element in the future.
Last edited by Gzesh; 01-08-2018 at 07:48 PM.