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Message: [QUOTE="quick, post: 7128229, member: 133269"] I was skeptical a few years ago that poker would grow and instead was figuring, especially online, that it would decrease further and further. But I'm happily surprised in past year or so that things seem to be looking up. Our local card rooms, I'm located on East Coast USA, (at least the one I go to) seem to be doing just fine, lots of action, lots of tables, lots of different types of players. Online poker, especially here in the USA finally seems to be recovering and most definitely in past 2 months when multiple sites finally got multi-state player pools merged. I mean literally overnight the geofenced single state sites traffic on each one has almost tripled if not quadrupled, guarantees have increased, game selection has increased. Many of them are linked to well know casinos and almost all of them have online casinos and sports books built in. I think too as these regulated sites grow further they will further improve game integrity security and work harder to combat blatant cheating. On the unregulated sites, it sounds like more of them are losing players due to difficulties with maintaining game integrity, site uptime, payouts (really used to love Bovada/Iggy but in recent years it's just gone downhill). I think WPT Gold is a fresh take kind of like Global but I think here in USA this sweepstakes loophole model will be outlawed soon enough especially as casinos expand the states they offer regulated iGaming in. I would like to see the old school ClubWPT get back to it's former glory, as of last year it was still a good value for the membership, now seems unless you pay an extra monthly fee on top of the VIP fee you can't access many chances to win seats to WPT events. And just in general the popularity of Mystery Bounty tournies, more satellites online again to live events/majors, and seeing some return to mid/late 2000s competition between sites is showing increases in bonuses, rake back, and promos. Overall I think poker is on an upswing. I would not have said that as recently as 2-3 years ago. I also was saying a few years ago that competitive professional gaming in video games would be where the next generation of poker players will go instead of pro poker, but I think there's a healthy balance of old and new players in both gaming and poker. [/QUOTE]

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