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Originally Posted by DogFace
FWIW, Wynn absolutely smashed it in December with their WPT stuff. Their $1.1k got 10,000+ entries. Nearly 4,000 entries in their $10k main event.
It felt like December was a second summer with all the tournaments running. Spillover to other venues was strong.
I don't think there's much objective evidence for poker dying out, other than random hunches and vibes.
I wouldn't make the mistake of generalizing my own personal feelings to the greater poker-playing population.
Ah yes because massive overlays, record number of poker rooms and card rooms closing, lower online poker participation, and a lack of enthusiasm for poker is all based on my own hunches and vibes 🙄
Look, there used to be 20 ships in the sea of poker. All but 2 have sunk to the bottom and taken most passengers with them. The surviving passengers are piling onto the ships that are still afloat and that gives the perception that things are booming because the existing boats are now more crowded.
An argument can be made that the sea was over saturated with boats and was eventually going to balance itself out, which is what is happening. But let’s not pretend that that means everything is booming and healthy.
If there was a metric to look at the overall gross revenue of poker, adjusted for inflation, do you honestly think it would be increasing rather than decreasing? Come on, man.
I still love the game but inflation, greedy cheats and scammers, and over saturation by venues trying to capitalize on poker have all caused the game to eat itself.
It will never disappear completely but, as I said, it’s on life support.