The #AsianPokerBoom is apparently in full flow.
Pokerscout estimates that the IDNPLAY network has more players than 888. It's not (yet) open to Western players though.

I'm not sure of the country in which it started (China maybe?), but if the numbers are to be believed, it's another indication that the world's economic centre of gravity is shifting to the east.

You can watch reruns of High Stakes Poker non-stop on Twitch which should increase the odds of someone watching it and thinking "I should recreate this exactly the same way as it was the best poker show ever on TV."

Hard to recreate a show that was build around 'free' full tilt money.

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The Sunday Tourneys on P-Stars were soooo much a reason I got hooked on Poker. Whether I had $1, $11, $100 or more available, there was always a huge tourney to play that offered a ginormous ROI potential for very little financial risk. If I got knocked out early, could always play some cash games, and check out the forums & podcasts and rail the tourney I just played to see if anyone I played against ran deep.

I used to love listening to Quad Jacks as I ran deeper in a few events....and loved watching all the Poker Shows on TV.

Before Black Friday, there really seemed to be a Poker "Community" so to speak. It was like Poker was a sport where any one could jump in and play for a chance to win some serious ROI.

My best finish ever was The April 11th, 2010 $11 Sunday 1/4 Million.

Total Prize Pool was $322,920 with 1st getting $27,000. I had been studying the game for just over a year, and finished 97th of 32,292 players ! Cashed for $187 but was very pleased with the result and progress I felt I was making as a player.........but then of course......we all now what happened not long after......Black Friday SUCKED !!!

The positive: I feel between Bitcoin, and a slow progression to legalize online online poker in the USA, that perhaps we could get i-Poker back to a fraction of what it once was......and that would be better than today......

I currently mess around on ACR & Bovada, but not nearly with the same enthusiasm I once played with on P-Stars.

The positive is we know what online poker can be, and hopefully, we can make a slow return back to that at some level......with the added benefit of legal protections....

Brazilians are still playing online.

Libratus has indicated that it will return the souls of the humans that it is currently crushing at the conclusion of the Brains v AI challenge.

You don't have to play

If you are very young and very sharp you probably can find more profitable and ultimately more enjoyable things to do

dumb response

Practical real-world advice declared "dumb" by degenerate losers #nvg


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The positive thing is Stars seems to be at least trying to address the horrible pro/rec imbalance that is going to destroy online poker
Next we will hopefully see an attack on all the ridiculous cheating software aids. Identification and Banning of all the accounts with illegal hand histories. Mobile-only tables and MTTs. And yes hope for some segregation as well

USA returning just isn't going to happen and as someone pointed out just results in 5000 more belarussion grind houses popping up anyway


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Don't care if it's true or not. You cried enough about this in the why take poker seriously thread. How are you not tired of bitching about it yet?
It's dumb as a response to the OP in this particular context.

"So tell me one positive thing about online poker."
"dunno any. do something else. "

Brilliant piece of insight.

It actually is an insightful post, you're just so caught up in your little poker world u can't see it. I'll pray for you


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poker is the rake

There's still a lot of earning potential, especially on Ignition.

Zone & 6max PLO cash for example.

Internet poker can still be played in your underwear

It's still fun, its still exciting to go deep in an MTT. Still awesome clicking the call button and soul reading your villian. its fantastic when that bankwire hits your account. Just as great is taking the funds from the ATM and rub it on my titties.

Poker has always been about playing the person, not the game. Its just as easy to crush people today if you play the person, and not the HUD.

Go show them granpa

playing the person is playing the HUD, that's why people use them lulz

I lose less money as I feed my gamble without pits or sports

Stiffie and boner the same thing? Or am I missing something?

He's a pro , you don't wanna mess with him. He's "seen it all"

it appears i'll still be able to make my car payment