[Paul Levy]

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Has the on-line gambling ban led to an increase in poker at Brick & Mortar cardrooms? Anyone have any sense of this?

It could conceivably go this way, right: on-line poker created tens of thousands of new poker players, then on-line poker goes into the tank, so many on-line players make the switch to B&M to keep playing.

I'm not saying it has gone this way. I'm just hopefull that it could. Anybody notice any changes in their local cardrooms?

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It certainly has changed for me: I find that there are not many loose passive players left at full ring mid stakes NL tables, and the games have got much harder - at least for me.

Meanwhile, I found a card room where they spread an incredibly soft $6/$12 PLHE game, so I started playing less online and more live. I'm seriously thinking of relocating close to that casino to be able to play there on weeknights instead of weekends only.

It's already been said many times, but I really believe that the difference between online and live play for comparable stakes is so massive it defies comprehension.

In any case, please note that in my example the switch from online to live is a 'second-order effect' - that is I'm not prevented from playing, it's just that I don't find it that worth anymore.