For sure super high games will happen occur. It's not like Isildur was a one-off. Johnny Lodden etc played similarly huge games. But they won't happen on Stars, and the chances of them happening on Full Tilt are reduced, because so many of the players who gave lots of action - Ziigmund, Cole South, Durrrr, LarsLuzak, Isildur1, Martonas, Brian Townsend, ICallSoWhat, Krantz - have had large downswings, or can't play on Full Tilt anymore. Indeed, given that players as good as the aforementioned have lost such fortunes at the biggest games, any prudent player would be likely to stay at 25/50 or below. The main stumbling block to bigger games probably isn't prudence however, but increased legislation restricting online gambling. Naturally reduced player pools mean less money in play, thus restricting how much can be won and what sums can be played for.

After hyperinflation this will 1.2 million pots will be standard

Hyper-inflation will bring the first billion dollar pot for sure..

+1

maybe

Go to HighstakesDB and look up the biggest losers at the highstakes.

The 3 biggest fish @FT roughly lost about 30-35m at the nosebleeds, which is "dwarfing" isildur1´s loss.

On the Euro-Sites, millions were donated by sportbettors and degerate athletes, mostly soccer players.

Without this small pool of heavy losing players a lot of HS regs would still grind @10/20.
There´s no such thing as "easy money" anymore but this has been discussed a lot of times before.

2003-2007 was like a "once in a lifetime" opportunity for those who were able to play 10/20++

+1

The days of Spirit Rock, Green Plastic and Samoleus...

This. The fact that Vegas is sucking it down does nothing to disprove the "gambling during an economic downturn" argument. Most of the money that goes to Vegas comes from people taking a vacation, spending a pile of money on everything, with casual gambling being a part of that. Those people are NOT compulsive gamblers, just people with some money to burn out to have a good time. THOSE people have scaled back their spending and that is what hurts.

"True" gambling may be as strong as ever, but it's not going to be enough for the lack of casual money in Vegas. Go to any cardroom in California (which is filled with "real" gamblers), and there is action up the wazoo.

^this, my 2 cents aside from that is that I think the closer relation to the steroid era is the ma-ing, ghosting, etc... that has been rampant and still exists today. If that can ever truly be stopped-(I don't have the answer, don't know how communication by multiple people can ever be regulated, sadly)-I think then people will really look back, even in the era we are in now, and look upon it similarly to steroid-era.

cliffs: guy laliberte = steroids. high stakes winners = barry bonds/mark mcguire/sammy sosa

like someone mentioned already the baseball reference was pointless

The title of this thread tilts the hell out of me.