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Originally Posted by Pagasses...
Unless Doug Polk or any other guy with a lot of public brings this to people attention, most players won't know what's happening. I have more than 300 players and few knew about this. We are talking about pro players,,,cant imagine fun players...
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Originally Posted by adam levine
Doug did a video a week ago.
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Originally Posted by Pagasses...
I know, but its not enough
Unfortunately, this is the reality of poker, online poker, and the game's content creators. Even with more than 400K subs – which is pretty damn good for a poker player and
puts him among the top YouTubers – Polk's reach is still quite niche-ish.
Think of some of the bigger stories within the poker world in recent years. Now think about how well or how poorly it reached the huddled masses of casual fans and rec players. That ratio gets worse when the subject is related to the online world. Not helping the cause is that GGPoker in particular has a higher percentage of recs than the others, given its overall ethos.
For me, Doug's video WAS what brought me to this subject, and to this thread in particular. I'm a reasonably avid 2+2er, and even I didn't know about the MoneyTaker saga until that vid went live. If there are hundreds of people like me – a chilling, sobering notion, by the way – then you can argue his reporting
did have an effect.
Unfortunately, the guy who most needs to speak up about it is the one who probably won't (or can't, at least right now). And to be honest, I'm not sure what he could say that would assuage any concerns about that site.