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Originally Posted by Atarirob
Or you just go look at landline phones and pretend.
I think i made it clear that I wasn't really arguing if we were in a poker boom or not.
However, I can say that among the many tables I dealt to today, there was a $1/$3 table that was really a $1/$3, raise to $25 with 4 callers table. Another table was similar with the notable hand of the inital raiser opening for $40, getting 4 callers, and by showdown the board was 2 3 9 5 K with over $1000 on the pot and the three shown down hands were 98, 98 and J9. These tables were not even all that exceptional.
We will never have a boom as big as the golden years after Moneymaker, but poker is better right now than it has been in the last 6 or 7 years by far. Maybe even longer. Games are ridiculously soft and lots of people have lots of money to keep buying more and more chips and have a good time.
It may not be the Sonic boom of Moneymaker, but it is a nice mini-boom. Grandma is willing to bet her social security check on top pair, crappy kicker. Lots of people who win in their local bar league are willing to play in the casinos.