Why don't we just rig the WSOP ME so that Ellen wins? LOL

"And for everyone in the audience today, a 1,000 dollar gift card from WSOP.com!"

I wonder what effect there would be on traffic per site if there were fewer non-US sites. I would imagine that a certain percentage of the traffic would disappear forever (for example William Hill's sportsbook bettors having only ever played poker because their favourite bookie offered it), but a swell should then follow to the remaining sites.

How can that be achieved? Not sure... Does there need to be licensing to operate a non-US poker site? I guess such a licensing body could be more restrictive.

Kinda like Ron Jeremy...

Lol ty for this, i was trying to work out where he was coming from

- Random Chess Hustler Pro Circa 1954

if every state legalizes online gambling, you could call it a poker boom

Even just 10-15 and sharing the same pool would be sort of a mini-boom. CA, NV, NJ, PA would account for a great deal of recreational players. CA and PA would be key new entrants into the market due to their size/established brick and mortar casinos.

yeah if one of the worlds largest economies gets into the mix there wont be a boom. not to mention time is cyclical so all things ebb and fade and rise again

All good things come to an end. The poker booms gone and not coming back. There will be mini geographic booms, but nothing like we saw in the hay day. California will be a large boom for their individual state if they go online, but unless the feds create unrestricted us online poker, it will never be like it was.

The poker boom was correlated to a 10M first prize in the ME, and the WSOP is guaranteeing 10M for 1st in this year's ME. So I think the one and only shot at a potential boom would be once the ME is done. If it doesn't happen, then there will assuredly not be another boom

The boom was not correlated to a 10M first prize because Monermaker didn't won as much.

And WSOP are not the center of the poker world anymore.

Moneymaker won 2.5million.
There wasn't a ME prize over 10million until Jamie Gold won 12million in 2006.

People really should try doing research or, at least, having simple knowledge before posting on here.

Jean-Robert winning One Drop certainly wouldn't hurt.

There actually was a huge 'chess boom' in the early 1970's because of Fischer, where everyone had a chess board in the living room, chess clubs were springing up everywhere, people got together to play chess... then it died off and only the hard-cores and regs were left.

Fads are what they are.
The poker fad had good economic timing for its start, bad economic and legislative timing for its death.

There will always be hard-cores and regs but booms are usually circumstantial and can't be duplicated.

While I wasn't around in the 1970s chess continues to grow today, greatly due to the spread of technology. Just as the poker boom had a lot to do with people playing online. Before Fischer no one was really making a living playing chess he was the first to demand to be paid. Even the World champions before him had jobs to make ends meat. While the best poker players were still making money before the internet boom the amount of players that can make a living has skyrocketed.
While poker is very different then chess their are similarities. The past "poker boom" was not just a fad as it moved the game in the spotlight. It will never be tossed back into the back alley. Interactive online gaming is the future, not sure how long it will take to get up and running again but once it does I guarantee you will see a huge return of people to the game

certainly wouldn't

haha yea right

There's more truth to it than you think. Many players have gotten better due to the wealth of information about the game available to them, and many of the complete donators have stopped donating for financial reasons.

Why do you say that?

The best thing that could happen to poker now would be if a woman won the WSOP main event. The media frenzy would be even greater than when Moneymaker won.

WSOCC 2016. It's gonna take off in a big way.

I bet the average Joe has no idea who he even is. I don't see this helping. Also the one drop is known for the elite and the very wealthy, this is not the audience poker in general needs to target. I don't see another boom coming either, I also see regulation hurting the game further which it kind of already has. The only slight chance at seeing any sort of boom is to see a woman win the main event and if that doesn't do it, nothing will.

Iris you must not go on the internet much

regulation in the USA done correctly (i.e. rake structure and combined player pools) is not going to hurt the games. It's going to bring it back mainstream which will allow for mainstream marketing which gets it in front of everyone's faces again. Too many people currently think online poker is illegal and/or shady offshore sites are likely to cheat.

it will never be the same...the economic situation (pre recession, and when people cared less about saving/sustaining and more about spending/flashing), paired with the newness of online poker, paired with a non-pro shipping the main event, are element that cannot replicated...i remember during the boom it was insane...100+ person lists for 1-2NL games, eight 4-8 games going, massive tourney fields with terrible structures, and sit-n-gos running non-stop...oh, and the fish hadn't yet been caught....