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Originally Posted by MSchu18
Find a new game/exploit...
Years ago, there was a guest on PokerRoad Radio talking about how close we were to heads-up LHE being solved (or maybe that it already was). Furthermore, heads-up NLHE would be next, then six-max LHE, or whatever order the dominos would fall.
A bunch of us were in the chat, taking this all in. For every one gloom and doomer who said something like "well, that will be the end of poker," there were probably three of us going, "No, poker will just pivot to a different variant becoming the most popular." After all, PLO was starting to really take off at that point, and was already seemingly more popular in Europe than NLHE. Plenty of people – myself included – were getting into 2-7 lowball games or the various badugi variants. The popularity of a given game shifts frequently, even in recent years, lest we forget that there's more stud than hold 'em played in
Rounders, which was the tick-tick prior to the poker boom. So the game can and will adapt before it ever dies.
Of course, the OP is referring to cheating specifically, which could pose a problem whether we're talking about HE or PLO or TDL or Crazy Pineapple. As for its effect on the random Joe, I guess that depends on how likely a person succumbs to availability heuristics. Will the reports of another cheating scandal scare some people away? Sure, just as the report of a plane crash does scare some people from flying. In reality, the instances of either are very much the exceptions, often by whopping magnitudes.
It does seem like poker players should be less prone to such bias, since as a group, we're much better at understanding precise probabilities and likelihoods and less likely to fall for a "it feels like ___" gut feelings.
Last edited by Wilbury Twist; 02-13-2024 at 06:49 PM.
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