[gary1523]

In different areas of country the answer will be different. California, the Gulf Coast, Atlantic City, Foxwoods, etc. etc. are all going to have a different percentage of increase of players do to the internet players moving to B&M play. And I wasn't a poker player in the 90's. But everything I have read about poker in Vegas in the 90's is that most casino's had no poker rooms and one's that did, even the MGM, closed them down from lack of business. Binion's, Mirage, Bellagio are the only one's I have heard had popular poker rooms in the late 1990's. Other players can add a few I am sure but nothing like the boom in poker in Vegas right now. I go to Vegas just to play poker several times a year and my talking to players in Vegas seems to leave me to the conclusion that 80% of them started on the internet and like me, would never have found the passion for it without the internet play available to them. Poker on TV and then the fluorishing of new poker players on the internet brought poker back to Vegas by several 100 percent bigger than it ever was before. Took the last few years to build it up to what it is today and would take years to slow it back down, but without the internet frenzy to feed it, I would expect the availablility of poker rooms in Vegas to diminish more and more as the years do go by. I just hope all players alike can find a way to unite and keep the internet poker not just alive, but flourishing!!!!!!