[SmackinYaUp]

It's very clear that online poker players are more skilled for many reasons. I'll try a single, different approach...

Before online poker, there was a smaller pool of "pros" to draw your cream of the crop from. There was just the locals near the casinos, the tourists, and the sharks living fat and happy.

The accessibility that online poker brought to the scene shook this happy little comfort zone all to [censored]. First, just the raw numbers of people playing poker increased so much that the odds are there will be more of those phenoms or whatever you want to call them that blow everyone else away.

Second, the accessibility of the game increased the competition tenfold. Here is a game that targets the younger generation (for the most part) that wants to make tons of money, get away from the 9-5 grind that is so tirelessly accepted by society, and wants it now.

All of a sudden the poker scene wasn't just tourists having fun and a few regulars gutting them every day. It became a million 20 year olds taking the game seriously and viciously fighting each other to make the money.

Not to mention hands per hour, data mining, and everything else that's already been mentioned.


Sounds like a bunch of hippy talk but there might be something to it