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Originally Posted by ishipkq
poker is just too slow and boring. it got popular when the internet didn't offer fast paced entertainment like it does today.
and stars fcked it up further by making masstabling difficult
I disagree that poker got popular
because in the early 2000s "the internet didn't offer fast paced entertainment like it does today".
1. It got popular because, for most players, it is a gambling game, it was on television with hole card cameras
*, and was the first publicized gambling game available in their homes on the internet.
That internet speeds are faster today in my view does not support your implication that "then" it was fast enough, now it is "too slow" by comparison to more content-rich, faster entertainment options.
2. I totally disagree that "making mass tabling difficult" makes a poker game
less entertaining for recreational players. I suspect the opposite effect may hold, although an outright ban would cause significant drops in gross revenue to both sites and former -tabling players. Is there is room in the entertainment market for an offering of single table tables; play here, but not concurrently at any other table.
I don't operate a poker site, but I did at the time "mass-tabling" became a factor accelerating the liquidity demands of the reg market. Since then technology has changed and the cost structure for hosting rec players has changed also. I haven't modeled the relative contribution to profits from activity by rec players v grinders in years, but suspect the demand for "entertaining" poker may be relatively under-served in the real money gambling industry.
Just questions, not claims of "fact".
* There is a good reason Henry Orenstein is in the poker hall of fame, aside from his playing. (He also invented Transformers I believe. )
Last edited by Gzesh; 03-21-2018 at 08:23 PM.