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Originally Posted by tw2238
The Poker economy across board is shrinking , there are very few new players . We are in a digital online age and our government banned it lmao . The B&M action is also shrinking because of the online ban. Sad
The poker economy across the board has been forcibly shrunk by pandemic restrictions.
My home club, the Oaks Card Club has twenty-one tables available for poker. Right now, they are using only nine of them, unable or unwilling to spread more games. Waits for seats in the evening are terribly long. It is crystal-clear that the Oaks is running at full (permissible) capacity, and that if they could put more tables into play, they would.
There is a lot of pent-up demand for poker, and a lot of players, at least in the USA, are going elsewhere to satisfy it: agented apps like PokerBros, and grey-market sites like Ignition/Bovada and Americas Cardroom.
I have been playing a lot on Ignition lately, and in my opinion the games there currently are the best online games I have ever played since
well before Black Friday.
Of course, these games are mostly NLHE and PLO.
I predict a substantial boom in live poker as pandemic fears ease. I am not going to Las Vegas for this year's WSOP -- I would want case counts to be rather lower before I'd go -- but I am expecting players, US players at least, to make a strong showing.
I mean, really. Schneids just came out of the woodwork to tell us that the Canterbury Park 40-80 game is as good as it ever has been.