popularity of poker

[Zetack]

[ QUOTE ]
With the popularity of online poker suddenly, isn't there the possibility that eventually everyone will go out, start reading poker theory books, checking out online strategy, etc. and then there won't be any fish left ?!

[/ QUOTE ]

The short answer is no, you'll never run out of fish.

it might help to clarify what we mean by fish though. In my mind a fish is a really bad to attrocious player. A not particularly good player doesn't qualify as a fish, but those not particularly good players are our bread and butter because there are so many of them.

And even if all the fish went away, you'd still have plenty of not-particularly good players because that jump up to actual good player is harder than you would think and requires more than just reading a book or two. Most players just want to play, they don't want to study and work. They play poker because its fun, after all.

So no worries.

--Zetack