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Originally Posted by Game_On
1. Fish to reg ratio was much better in the party days. Online players weren't nearly as good as they were now.
2. regs weren't playing 20+ tables like they are now
3. Huds have evolved far beyond what they were.
4. Training sites aren't new anymore. There's a ton of them around teaching players how to play better fundamentals.
5. Live games have always been, and will always be much softer than online games.
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While I appreciate your concerns, you're still seeing the glass extremely half empty. I figure you to be in the "OMG HUDZ GONNA KILL POKER OMG" crowd. The thing is, the only people worrying about HUDS, and training sites, and playing 20+ tables are grinders, who in a new poker economy will make up an absurdly small proportion of the player pool.
Think of it this way, the people who play regular live poker are still awful, and I don't see them sitting down for three hours a week to watch Deuces Cracked. At the very most they might pick up Phil Godon's Little Green Book or whatever at Barnes and Noble.
This ubiquitous fear of permanently difficult games is just not grounded in reality. HUDs and Training sites simply don't make the tremendous difference that you think they do.