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Originally Posted by PugDolk
Hustler was dead AF before HCL. It was Commerce #1, Bike #2, Hawaiian Gardens a distant #3, and then Hustler was a ghost town. Now Commerce is still packed as ever, Bike is still packed as ever, and Hustler much more busy, usually the third most popular casino and sometimes the second. HCL legitimately gets like 10-100x the views that LATB ever did. Also nobody outside of a niche community ever watched LATB. HCL is very popular and has brought a lot more recs into the game. It's better for bringing recs into the game than the WSOP is now. It has an international audience.
All the games outside the stream at hustler existed and were played with around the same amount of tables before HCL as after it except the 10/20 plo which I thought was private. If I’m wrong please give specifics I’m genuinely interested in what games got more popular because I used to play there. That being said hustler being more popular in la and just shuffling people from the bike or Hawaiian gardens or Hollywood park or even commerce doesn’t really make a meaningful difference about anything unless you have ownership in hustler imo as I said before I don’t know why you’re fixated on that.
I said HCL was a better product. I DO think that it’s good for poker and bringing attention to the game. I just think everything involving nick on HCL seems worse IMO so it’s a ****ing shame he’s involved with it imo but maybe I’m wrong.
Not to derail the discussion but i thought the bike has been dead for like 10 years from when they got raided by the cops there’s no way it was #2 right? I mean when’s the last time they had a game over 5/5. Hawaiian gardens and Hollywood park had a popular 5-10 and 10-20ish game I thought
Last edited by smoothcriminal99; 10-07-2024 at 11:57 PM.