For sure.

Before I was comfortable (being a broke early 20's kid) with cash games, I was playing mostly cheap local equivalent to MTT Sit n Go's. There was probably 10 going a week all around different cities/towns.

You could literally schedule a small local tournament every day of the week if you wanted to. And there would be 15+ or more at every one of them.


Looking back on it, kinda nuts the volume of cheap tournaments people were running after the Moneymaker win. One or two of us would eventually be politely asked to come less to some of them. We were placing top 3 or winning almost every single one. And literally just playing black and white Super System Poker.

Pretty much this.

Those days are long gone. I built my own table to host games not too long ago. Had 7 people show up the first time and only 2 every time after that. Had free beer, soda, and pizza but people STILL didn’t show up.

Stopped hosting about a year ago and the table just sits idly in my garage.

That would never have been the case during the golden age.

back then you would have needed 5 of those tables.

2023

I think Mason will be able to tell us from a quantitative basis what years he made the most from his website and publishing company - my guess it would be around 2004 to 2008

I'm gonna go with 80s-90s in terms of games raging and passion for playing. Then a second round 2011-2015 when I moved to Florida and PLO was raging more so than I had ever seen.

This thread has been done before in NVG and Mason himself gave the answer you are looking for in an older thread here https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...4&postcount=67

Sad times. Home games used to have a waiting list with people sitting on your couch watching tv waiting for someone to bust.

Gotta go with right now as well for me. These are the good old days.

I've gotta say given how soft the PLO still is where I play and how many tables are running on a daily basis, the time is now. Can't say the same for hold 'em anymore unfortunately.

knowdays everyone is broke .. just broke

When a guy called my river jam on a KQJT5 board holding A249 in Omaha because he thought he had a straight.

Oh wait, this happened five minutes ago.

I read an article about Nate Silver yesterday who played online poker professionally from 2004 on which made me wonder what PartyPoker looked like back then. I skipped through some archived versions of the website and apparrently back in 2006 PartyPoker ran WEEKLY FREEROLLS that awarded 20 WSOP Entries EACH (1st = entry to the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E., 2nd through 10th $10,000 Main Event, 11th through 20th any $2,000 preliminary event) which is just insane both for the people who won and those who were seated with them in the target event lol. Surely this would mark the very peak of the poker boom pre-UIGEA?

https://web.archive.org/web/20060408...free_roll.html

Nostalgia wants me to say the moneymaker era. There was even celebrity games and ****. I think we are currently entering the true golden age though like it or not. All the different streams, vlogs, and new young players entering look very promising. I think people are hungover from the sunglasses and hoodie supernit era and ready for some exciting games.

Wow, you just made me crazy nostalgic reading this. 🥺 Hmm, what can I add? Enjoying live games in AC that were full of life and hustle and bustle, playing stud with ancient cool regulars at the Taj and Trop. 1-2 NL at all hours at the Borgata. All the regs acting like my LAGtard style was scary to them. 😂 Looking up to DN as a noob, laughing at the PS and FT railbird chat on the nosebleeds (RIP Doyle and the like), poker being a mainstream game regular people talked about, all the hype around it - it felt fresh, new, exciting, and full of promise

The Golden Age was Moneymaker to April 15th, 2011.
I would have to say the early 70s with the introduction of the WSOP would constitute the Silver Age.
Ironically, the start of the pandemic brought on the Bronze Age.

Each important in its own way.

Today. Tomorrow. PLO is alive and well.

I miss the Sunday sweat threads on here when someone would make a FT and people would rail them and support them.

The MTT Community felt like a real community back then, there was even a secret Santa that someone organised and I took part in.

Still have the lighter I got given as my gift, and I don't even smoke.

2006 the year when Jamie Gold won the World Series was the launchpad to the moon.

And then 2010 was the orgasmic climax.

Isildur1, Urindanger, Ziigmund, Durrrr and OMGClayAiken going nuts on Full Tilt Poker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhE9...gelodegliDeiME

when the Frenchy's was in the global pool, they always thought they were a head lol

oh my goodness. Forgot about Urindanger

Talk about nostalgia

pretty much the same as everyone else.. i just bum hunted HU 100-600NL after rake back grinding fr 24 tables on stars for supernova for years. It was like having a personal endless atm. Lived in vegas, weirdly hung out at durrr's house a lot, but he was never there. Was friends with one of his roomates. Only time I would see him would be during WSOP. Met some amazing people, had the time of my life. good times.

#msnl on mirc because discord wasn't a thing. It was like discord for that era. but it's not.

the hu og's like prinnyraid, muckemsayuh(cole south), and all those shenanigans that went on.. and all the HU battles were just awesome.

Watching Doug Polk grind 24 tables of $25NL Full Ring trying to make 10k or 20k or something in a month live on a 2002 era webcam in his literal grandmas basement.

HU4rollz, cash it out and rub it on my titties(bling blang blaow), the micros, brian townsends million dollar dog, weed brownies, all the memes were just amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYMG0yY88pM

The thread itself is worth revisiting for the memories:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/5...eadsup-491103/

The golden age of poker is 22.