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Originally Posted by dappadan777
I'm not in the US. I'm in the UK. I have been limited (due to KYC) to £1500 per month on Stars. I was banned from GG for no reason, I am assuming bumhunting, but prior to that was limited to $1200 per month - but even if I wasnt banned and had decent deposit methods/limts, it's very well documented that the rake is an absoulte killer for anything but the highest stakes to the point where it's unbeatable for midstakes (2/5+), there's many threads about this + recent sightings and confirmation of superusers at many diff stakes. Coinpoker is pathetically low traffic, WPN is full of bots. I do not trust the apps or unregulated sites such as Coin/WPN for that matter really. You tell me where else. I would love to find somewhere I can play to show me that online poker isnt dead. I have played online for like 20 years, and of those 20, 10-12 were spent as a pro where I profited over 7figs, if I am finding it hard to find somewhere I doubt many others can find it, live cash games are fine but it's slow and not an ideal thing to do for 40-50 hours a week when you have other commitments and a family.
Your names of ideal players did make me laugh and is factual, the ideal fish has changed in demographic so I agree with you there, wish I could play against them.
Well yeah, I also had to move to keep playing, turns out your government sucks, that doesn't mean it's dead though. NLHE cash online might be, but other games have died before (LHE was the biggest game on Party ~2005 lol) and it was too predatory anyways. Gotta stay flexible. Tournaments right now have 5% rake thanks to 50% RB flat and no PVI. It's insane how profitable they are.
In fact, more people play now than back when the $3.50+R had a $60k Gtd. and player numbers are rising rapidly with the Asian market flooding in. China alone has 3x the potential market of Europe and the US combined. Add India, Korea, the SEA countries. All getting richer, legislation loosening, not tightening, and relatively uneducated pokerwise.
Even back then you had to split action between Party, Stars and FTP. Now, GG is pretty much enough to sustain yourself - and when GG inevitably dies, someone else will step up.
Basically what I'm saying is: You are as a player what Party was as a site - legacy, unable to adjust, going extinct.