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Originally Posted by 5=2+2
You need to include "in the USA" or "for American players like me," otherwise you come across as someone who believes the rest of the World to be irrelevant. We are talking about poker the World over here, and while the US market is a sizeable portion of that market, it is only a portion of it. Of course, as a US resident you are more interested in what goes on there, but some of you guys really come across as thinking it is the only place that matters. It would be like European or South American players coming across as thinking BF was irrelevant.
We are talking about World Poker here.
Sorry to pick on you specifically as there are other posts ITT with the same vibe.
agreed. I live in US and have been guilty of making US centric comments at times. We are absolutely talking about worldwide poker market of which US is only a part (small part for online, currently)
Also although this thread is talking about online poker, its hard to talk about "poker" without talking about overall poker market including B&M.
I would love to see some data on total number of entrants in the various live poker tours around the world. EPT, WPT National, WPT Regional, WSOP, WSOPC, APPT, LAPT, etc etc.
My intuition is the total number of entrants in the $US500-US$3000 events continue to expand. Here in the U.S there are multiple large field tournaments with huge prize pools just about anytime. Many of these are starting to overlap yet fields are still very strong.
regarding online, I've seen some post the pokerscout graphs as evidence in the decay of the game. While the revenue decline is true and irrefutable, I believe its has less to do with customer demand, or games getting tougher , and has moreto do with closed euro markets leading to horrible liquidity and ecosystems, complicated by overtaxing in some markets, France, for example.
just my two cents. I just want my Sunday Milly back. 8Milly guarantee??? are you kidding me?