You are correct the people you currently bribe to fix professional sports are the referees not the players.

Lol yeah people are punting away their entire lives on sports betting but poker is evil. Go figure

Im pretty sure some former players on GGPoker would disagree with that statement.

It wont get booming till we get some larger population states online to create a critical mass for interstate poker namely NY FL and California.. Any of the three would be the domino to fall to change things with the potential online player pools. One falls it might induce the other two this is especially true if its California. Id like to see Texas included as well in that situation but dont see anything changing there since they also seem to be stuck on a holier then thou political spectrum for now.

You seriously just hit the nail on the head. The potential and likely abuse in sports betting especially with live betting and including in game parlays is ripe for some serious abuse on both sides of the spectrum be in gamblers and or potentially the books trying to adjust on the fly when the goal of books is supposed to be balance the risk on both sides and make the money on the vig we know that doesnt happen though. and the state govts have mostly gone all in with sports betting across the country when the arguement against online poker was click a mouse lose your house well lets be honest folks. Thats much more likely with degenerate sports gamblers by far then some guy playing micros online.

Poker players and sports bettors often fall into the same demographics and it's common for people to be experts in both. It's even more common for someone who's an expert in one game to play the other as a hobby.

For the kids who are in their teens now, they seem less interested in sports than when I grew up in the 80s and 90s. More kids are getting into stocks and crypto as a way to invest money, but I am seeing a lot of them turning back to gambling now that the markets are heading downhill.

Anyone that calls crypto investing rather than gambling has drank the Kool-Aid.

The act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit

Any updates or anecdotes for 2024 ?

Do people still play poker ?
How does crypto, stocks, social media income, and biz side hustle culture
affect attracting the next gen of poker kids in college/20s ?

Stu Ungar lost a lot on horses.

I would say "poker was dead" before legalized sports betting took off in usa... At least before point spread betting took off

"Poker dying" =
1) more and more time since 2003, specific to poker... Fish got a lot better or quit etc.... Way way more enjoyable playing terrible opponents
2) USA government killed large scale online poker... If replaced by govt, people don't like it and often localized i.e. Small pool of players

States needed another tax revenue stream and the casinos pumped money into getting sportsbetting regulated.

The poker sites didn't have the kind of cash needed to grease.

Poker is boring. I can play slots on my mobile device.

In 2008 there was less to do so poker was high on list of things of to do. In 2024 I'd rather put down some bets and watch NFL in my pajamas than drive to casino and sit with a bunch of mizregs and probably risk getting covid.