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Message: [QUOTE="rawone, post: 2342250, member: 95060"] Here's the thing: if you haven't been around all that long, things seem pretty good. Online has stabilized, it looks like some places in the US have legal online gaming, and there are casinos pretty much all over the world with poker. In fact, there is probably thousands of tables open now all over the world playing the game. With them rose tinted glasses on, everything looks good. However, Hachem is right, and there are two ways to explain it. First, listen to his words and what he generally is calling out: Boring poker. You know, those players with the hoodies up, the headphones and sunglasses on, saying nothing, doing nothing, playing almost with sign language and with absolutely no emotion. They don't make for good TV, they don't make for a good live game, and they are insanely boring to play against. These also tend to be the same players who aren't helpful with the new fish in the game. They auto-bot their way through them, taking all their money without even as much as a "how do you do", turning the experience of sitting at a table with them into something less desirable than betting on one of those big spinning wheels. If you want to see what is happening with poker, go back and look at 9 ball pool about 15 years ago. It went from background noise "Color of Money" with a few big tournaments a year to suddenly a game all over TV, played everywhere, leagues, local tournaments, lots of players, lots of new billiard halls... 5 years later, it's gone from TV, the leagues have all fizzled, and it is once again a marginal niche sport that has it's supporters but is no longer ripping the world up. Poker gets all that 9 ball got, plus a legal hassles, payment issues, and of course Black Friday. In the US, the game has gone from top of the mind awareness on TV every night and so on to a marginal thing once again very rapidly. In the rest of the world it's pretty good, but not what it was. A mid level 2 day tournament in Adelaide this past weekend had a huge field of (are you ready) 57 players. 57. [url]http://www.pokerasiapacific.com/rocco-illuminato-wins-poker-sa-diamond-event-41436.html[/url] Anyway, it's just to say that things aren't as good as they were, the money is bigger but that is only because on the very top end, the buy-ins have gotten stupid in an attempt to keep things interesting. Million dollar buy ins are just to me an indication of how disconnected the big games are from reality, and another reason why things are falling apart. On that note, anyone going to Macau this weekend for the PS event? [/QUOTE]

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