effect of on-line poker downturn

[bellatrix]

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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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Yes, there is an influx, but not overly huge from the online world. Perhaps each table gets a new online player. I notice they are very quiet, don't fiddle with chips and sometimes tell bad beat stories from some online tourney. I have noticed a few good players, but since we only play limit, the players are either to tight and fold to quickly, or they go on tilt. Well duh! limit and NL is very different...

However, the vast majority of the influx doesn't come from former online players, at least not regular online players. I don't know what made them take up poker, but they're there. And the influx has been huge, believe me. When I first started, during the weekdays, we had two tables of Hold'em going during the weekdays, at 1am they converted into one table. Now, there is hardly a day where the 5 tables are not full and they are opening new ones.