In 10 years there will be another post on 2p2 asking about the future of poker

The two major risks are ai and poker being outlawed. Ai will affect online poker first, but the solution might be to encourage more multiway action. Maybe a couple more seats have to post a big blind before the deal. Live will be fine until nano technology is here.

It's a step forward, but it's not a cure.

For one thing, state poker is only licensed by and in that state. If Delaware has a site licensed by the state, I can't site at my computer and play on it. That means two things:

1. By itself, Delaware doesn't have enough people to get decent sized tournaments going and they might only be able to run play at a few levels.

2. Those of us in Michigan and 40+ other states don't have anything licensed in the US to play on. I'm better off playing on Americas Cardroom. It's a European site, but a lot of Americans play on it and there is a tournament with about 500 players that I play almost every day, and except for a few hours a day I can always find a SNG.. That would be close to impossible on a Delaware site because the player pool is too small.

EDIT: I have seen estimates that for a poker site to be viable the population would have to be over 10 million. That would include less than 10 states.

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As long as there is currency to play with, egos to push us and make us overconfident, and cushy seats in which to sit, there will always be some form of gambling on cardgames.

True, but keep in mind that 2+2 posters aren't most of the poker population. The only reason I found this site is that I wanted to study, so i started taking poker books out of the library. One of them was a 2+2 book (Theory of Poker) and I wound up here.

I don't think that most of the players you meet in a $5 online or $30 live tournament have ever read a poker book or been on a forum.

I am inclined to disagree with the above post. About six years ago I wrote a post in the small stakes limit holdem forum, a supposedly dead game. In six years it has over 26k views. Now, of course some of those views are repeat viewers and some are regs that misclick on my post. However, comparing the 26k views with the small number of posters that regularly frequent that forum and I think it's clear that 2+2 gets a ton of non posters that lurk here.

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the future of poker is in the esports.

think about it, all of us have been attracted by the challenges at the green table among the charismatic phil ivey, tom dwan, doyle brunson etc ...

after the black friday everything was downsized and the absolute monopoly of pokerstars did only damage, who knows how poker would be today if full tilt had still existed

moreover, poker needs to be modernized as it has now been resolved by bots (at least for NLH), how nice it would be to introduce a new depth to poker in order to force everyone (including regulars) to get back in the game 100% and start studying strategies from 0 again.

something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CZytXnBgL4

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I really don’t think we have to have that discussion again, almost a decade later. Hate PokerStars for everything they did over the last couple of years but without their actions after BF, online poker probably wouldn’t even be a thing anymore. Besides that, FullTilt would have collapsed without BF. Everything ‘what would have been with FTP still around?’ is pretty pointless because it doesn’t account for the fact that their business model was to take players deposits and redistribute them into their own pockets and marketing.

full tilt poker really didn't care about the law and it is 100% WRONG obv.

they were pirates and they paid for it, BUT they were artists who continued to invest and work, bringing continuous innovations to the world of poker (Rush Poker, Irish Poker etc...)

Don't forget that while pokerstars proposed a vip system that rewarded only the regulars (supernova elite etc..), they rewarded everyone by maintaining a much healthier ecosystem. Pokerstars in the end arrived at the same conclusion in a very hypocritical and incorrect way.

much better pirates than a corporation, 10,000 times!!! long life to art and creativity!