lol poker nft isnt gonna be too big but will still sell. its not like nba nft more demand. poker is a lot smaller compare to sports. youngs kids are the ones into nft. poker now is mostly for the older generation. seriously who wants to play poker in todays environment. better to make tiktoks or other stuff.

Tough spot. If they don't make a card for Sexton, then half of the WPT viewership* would go up in arms that they didn't pay tribute to him.

My guess/hope is that they cleared it with Sexton's family.

Online bracelets should be NFTs

Damn, this is a shitty way to find out Mike Sexton died. I've been out of the poker loop for years. It's one thing to not know who went busto but this is a tough one. RIP Mike

Could argue that the custom ftp avatars you could purchase with points were nfts.

Now, with Ivey starting his own NFT collection (https://www.pokernews.com/news/2021/...ents-40145.htm), and lots of Poker players into NFTs as well, i thought we should start a thread for that.

@mod: if not good here, please move where it's supposed to be.

I think NFTs are an amazing opportunity, and will only increase in value and overall awareness, so it's a good time to start looking into it.

Thoughts?

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wow ... just scrolled through the comments here, so much negativity towards NFTs, amazing.

especially when one would think that poker players are open to new technologies etc.

well, i guess, i'll be the only one then making a **** ton of money with it ;-)

there are just a chit ton of art projects coming out (cats, dogs, mountains, windows , flowers, noses, cartoons, on and on and on) ... 99% of them are and will be worthless. I doubt there will many more CryptoPunk type phenom's but who knows. Same applies to any poker themed NFTs

I'd be thinking less about NFTs with an image of Phil Ivey's gym shoe and more about this sort of stuff. This is just an example in poker but many others exist outside of poker. Many others will come that have yet to be even conceived. Most will fail. A select few won't.

https://polker.game/


Will be very interesting to see how NFTs and Video Gaming merge. For those into currency and think NFT/Gaming is a thing, you might want to check out Solana coin/blockchain. If gaming/nft does gain traction, Solana will benefit because of its massive speed of transaction benefit over Etherium where transaction times (and lately transaction costs) make it useless for gaming.

So yeah, I think NFTs will be a thing in poker but having more to do with game play than stored images.

The one useful thing WPT, WSOP, or any online card room could do is mint a NFT bracelet or trophy for the winner of an events. Win a WCOOP, get a NFT. WSOP online, here is your NFT bracelet

Rich people love spending money on extravagant things that make them feel exclusive or special.

I love how people have strong opinions about stuff they apparently don't understand at all ...

NFTs are a completely new asset class, opening up endless possibilities; the thing with "millions for pixel pics" is just a fluke, but real applications are coming (or already there)

but i'm not gonna educate you any further (wouldn't be appreciated anyway), do your own research. or not.

That's fine.

My issue is non rich people getting scammed, or spending money they can't afford, being told it's an investment, and they'll get rich - similar to all the new crypto currencies. If you look at 'influencers' stuff, they are blatantly targeting kids.

of course there are scammers.

If having scammers around is the litmus test for keeping away from things then yo'ud have to keep away from just about everything...

Poker
Banking
The Internet
Cell phones...
Marriage
Drugs


Your point is strawman argument on steroids.

There was a project I found a couple months ago. It is called Boneyard Poker Club where you own a dog NFT to play poker on their site. I talked to the owners and asked them questions and it really seems like they do not know how to run a poker club, let alone handle security and RNG. Their release was a flop too, would stay away from poker NFTs unless backed by a big name.

Ok, i'll let you guys in on a secret:

My first NFT collection will go live in around 4 weeks. It will:
a) change the world as we know it
b) brings my net worth in stage 1 in Dnegs territory , with stage 2 will have Elon Musk in my sight

but will still be posting here, because it's so much fun.

What exactly is a poker NFT?

good post(s), but the quoted part only covers a fraction of what's actually going on. not gonna educate ppl, but to do some name dropping: gamefi has already gained traction, eth to move to pos, layer2 solutions for eth, tradeoff b/w faster/cheaper transactions and less security/decentralisation and fewer devs. and we must consider that there's a big difference b/w crypto companies trying to develop a game and gaming companies trying to incorporate crypto.

thought provoking point. Are you saying one is better than the other, or they are just different? why?

The amount of activity and investment money pouring into this area is mind boggling. example... https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/04/st...ion-from-a16z/ and this .... Levy with some background in online casino gaming. https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/24/w...450m-nfx-fund/


Each rabbit hole I go down to understand more just opens up 3 more rabbit holes I have to learn about. I'm trying to hone in on some specific areas to follow closely and make smart investments. NFT and Gaming feels like a good place to start. But even that niche within general blockchain/crypto market is expanding so fast its hard to wrap your head around. Im paying special attention to online casino gaming and very very close to anything poker related that has some meat on the bones and not just lame Phil Ivey tennis shoe type stuff or even worse Torrelli type NFT poker scam.

Only beginning to understand this my sense was Solana was lining up to play a role in growth of NFT / Gaming. Granted ETH is the current gorilla my understanding was it is too slow and too expensive for gaming transactions. Could you expand on your comment.

Also any specific thoughts on Solana?

Check out Layer 2 solutions like Immutable X.

ok, few snippets of wisdom, do with them what you want (or not):

Eth 2.0 is coming, will solve a ton of issues
you see eth rising right now? you see the ton of money traded in NFTs on Opensea? in Eth? You think that could be correlated?
yes, layer 2 is a thing, also cross-layer stuff and others, problems will be solved, there's a thousand different options to do it

this is a once in a lifetime opportunity overall, not getting into it is like staying with a nokia phone after apple made the iphone

over and out.

PS:
And if you are nice to me i'll put you on a whitelist spot when my stuff launches ... ;-)

Then why did you want to start a thread on the topic?

Oh, I see. It was either to promote yourself, or to troll.

a) because i thought people would be interested in it and one could have a genuine conversation about it. Unfortunately the "response" is negative or not interested, so i choose not to elaborate any further.

b) Oh my god, this again? you call this joke a "promotion"?

whatever man ....

i'm starting to get the distinctive impression that any opinion that's not within the "mainstream" of the site (mainstream meaning: what the mods decide!!!) will be S H I T upon ...

great way to further build the community, get in new and different opinions, etc.

Oh, and i know, you are gonna delete this anyway, which will only make my point.
so GFU

You get discouraged pretty easily. If you're really deeply interested in NFTs, I'd think you'd be used to people being sceptical. And it should make sense that they would be - it's a difficult concept to get one's head around. I used to think the idea was completely ridiculous, but my mind is a little more open after some good posts in the Alec Torelli thread about this (not about what Torelli was doing, but NFTs in general). I'm still not convinced they aren't ridiculous, but I'm certainly finding the topic more interesting.

No, I said you were *either* trolling (or joking, if you prefer) OR promoting. I don't really care either way.

Like always in NVG (and on the Internet in general), you'll get a variety of opinions. Many of them will be negative. Such is life. Not sure how mods' decisions have played into what's transpired in this thread thus far.

Personally, I'll be interested if this topic develops with some more interesting conversation.

I'm not a mod of this forum, and don't know why I'd delete this post if I was.

I'll pass, thanks. Have a great day!