Poker Dying out?

[rdh009]

IMO people that are winning big events such as WPT or WSOP just need to proclaim "Yeah I basically learned everything from online poker. It wasnt long ago I was just playing $2/4 hold'em and now I am a tournament champion! Anyone can win!"

This get lucky mentality is the only way we will get more fish into the sea.

[surfinillini]

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I think the Asian markets really haven't been tapped yet

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you've apparently never been to the commerce, bike or any other los angeles casino that is usually populated with 75% asians

[bk1]

I think it will be going down....

poker will be still popular and people are gonna playing the game...

but not like today's

[junglewarfare]

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I think the Asian markets really haven't been tapped yet

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you've apparently never been to the commerce, bike or any other los angeles casino that is usually populated with 75% asians

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awesome.

[Brainwalter]

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You guys realize the huge basic barriers to this happening, first off, like how way more american homes have internet access than asian homes, right? The internet in China is [censored] censored for chrissakes.

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Unlike the internet here? [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[Brom]

Just a few points on the subject.

Of course the rate of growth in the poker industry has to decline after some point. Like one poster said, if it continued at the old rate, everyone in the world would be playing poker (and would be two people). Say that there are 100 million players on internet poker now. An increase of 150% will mean 150 million more. An increase after that of only 60% will still be 150 million more people. Even at the projected rate, a good chunk of the world will be playing.

The growth rate will still be positive. There will still be fish coming in, just not at the same rate as at a point before. Think of it like a positive first order derivative, but negative second order. An analogy would be a car accelerating. A Ferrari goes from 0-60 in 3.5s. But goes from 60-120 in another 4.0s, and 120-180 in 5.5s. It's still increasing in speed, just not at the same rate.

I believe that as China and India become more industrialized and technologized, that some of the 2.4 billion people there will be gaining internet access at an alarming rate. These people love to gamble, as anyone can see by visiting a casino (I don't mean this in any deragatory sense). We should experience another boom in internet poker when the internet becomes more proficient in that area of the world, and we will then again see an increase in the rate of growth.

[Aytumious]

Even if the growth stopped completely I would have no problem with it. The online poker market is plenty big as is.

[bigballz]

All I read was the OP, but when was one time "the experts" were right?

[lefty rosen]

The uber soft games have been shrinking but the games can't get worse than about 2000. Back then Paradise had some real tight games above .5/1 and the other sites are getting there slowly but surely.....

[Madd]

So, scientists predict that poker more than doubles in the next 5 years. The end is near.