The future of poker

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Posted: 30-Oct-2009 16:52 by emekulate

I think online poker is here to stay, theres no reason why it shouldnt. There may be different laws introduced by particular countries in regard to online gambling but there will be ways around it. Poker will never die as the rapid increase of interest worldwide is spreading like the plague.
I too play for a living, and just like any job you do get burnt out every so often, but I do love PKR. The graphics give you a visual stimulus that makes playing online a tad more interesting versus stars or FTP where the simplness of the graphics tilts the fk out of me.
I think more cardrooms over time will start to modernise with 3d graphics but tbh im not too fussed cos I <3 PKR

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Posted: 31-Oct-2009 05:28 by DarkMace

Yes, poker will die.

Take you, giveyourcash and the other mid stakes grinder nits and go learn sodoku, monopoly and checkers or whatever.

Online poker is dead, moove on.

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Posted: 31-Oct-2009 12:41 by QuadroxXx

TBH for ''my money'' i hope it will die !

As for the rest it will stay

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Posted: 31-Oct-2009 23:15 by jimmyfizzels

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Posted: 01-Nov-2009 11:16 by TheJudas

Teleporting via the transporter beam to vegas, causes motion sickness so we will all be addicted to pills by then

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Posted: 02-Nov-2009 21:43 by satfat

HE is goin nowhere for a long time. experienced players love to dabble in om/om8/horse/mixed but even i will conceded tht HE is a far more skillful game and it also has all the fish appeal as its so simple

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Posted: 02-Nov-2009 23:47 by DudeStorm

Holography has come along leaps and bounds. In ten years I think we'll have basic versions of holodecks off of star trek, where you would just be able to change the room and have holograms of yourself beamed via the internet to your mates place and visa versa so you can socialise properly without leaving your own home. Thus you could use it for poker, you could log onto the PKR server and the room your standing in suddenly changes to China Town or whatever and the other players are already playing just waiting for you to sit down.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Q8SQ33gKY&feature=related



But then again that could just be a pipe dream, plus it would probably kill the live poker scene!

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Posted: 02-Nov-2009 23:54 by satfat

^^^ MILES away from being commercially affordable

plus do u really want holograms of ur mates/randoms sitting in ur study in their pants scratching n snffing their balls?

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Posted: 02-Nov-2009 23:58 by DudeStorm

Well there would obviously be rules sat and if that kind of technology does become commercially available then I'm sure that it would be able to recognise whether a person is wearing clothing.

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Posted: 04-Nov-2009 18:45 by jdnorway

I expect the future of poker to be as follows:

Technology:
1 platform where you keep all your bankroll - kind of like the strip in vegas.
Poker rooms (PKR, Stars, FTP, etc) will host their own tournaments/rooms, with their own interface within that platform.
More life-like interface - probably virtual reality will have similar market share to 3D today - but card playing interface will be more important than avatar interface for the industry as a whole.
Mobile devices will be responsible for 20-40% of the traffic - today it's probably more like 1 %. This should be a dominating development in the next 3-5 years.

Market:
1 platform will open the field to more players, driving innovation in many different directions. Why? Because the cost of entry will be lower as players will not have to deposit in your room.
The move to one platform will be driven by one of the big card rooms (Everest? Titan?) going broke and players losing a lot of their money.
Specialised players within financial management and IT will operate the common platform, organised by the biggest card rooms.
Other games will be introduced, and sports gambling with your poker bankroll will be possible - especially player-to-player sports gambling and sports games (fantasy football and poker, two of the huge online successes, will grow closer)
The number of players will quadruple within 5 years and poker room revenues will more than double.

Legislation:
More countries will tax poker and other gambling winnings, and they will do it more creatively.
Move to one platform will simplify taxation - but lead to a new industry of secondary accounts in tax havens for depositing and withdrawing from gambling accounts.
The US will be opened up for online poker.
Norway will temporarily ban online poker - but it will be a huge failure and the legislation will be reversed within 3 years.