PokerGo is ran by morons. They paywall the best events every year and continue the stunt the growth of poker.
Just a yearly reminder. PokerGo is doing nothing for poker ecosystem by paywalling the best events.
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Online poker is so fundamentally cheatable it will never get big again.
Newer to poker, how is it cheatable? People can just put the hand into a calculator and it’ll spit out the right bets for them?
Sure, that’s a real problem.
But also, enter a tournament with 100 players. Have nine friends on a cellular phone conference call working together that the app can’t trace. Collude to get a major edge. If I, a nobody, had access to 1-2 other players cards at my table; that gives me a profitable edge. Not to mention, we could collide to play a certain way that maximizes value, blockers aside.
Countless other examples.
I believe Brynn Kenney was caught somehow doing this type of thing (you have to be real shameless and greedy to get caught).
Online poker is 100% cheatable and anyone who doesn’t know it is new to poker or an idiot. There are some things that can be done to reduce it like shuffling cash game tables every hand but that has its limitations to preventing fraud and where’s the fun in that?
If it weren’t so cheatable, it would be legal in almost every US state. Look at all the gambling sites, sports betting, black jack, etc that have popped up in the past several years. Why is poker still illegal on most states? See above.
poker isn't legal in the us mostly due to moral panic surrounding gambling and not a big enough lobby to say otherwise.
If that was the case Fan Duel, Draft Kings, Polymarket etc wouldn’t be absolutely killing it and spending millions on ads.
sportsbooks partnered with sports leagues to create that huge lobby. it's possible they eye expanding into other forms of gambling, which is probably best case scenario for poker, but sportsbooks wouldn't be where they are if it wasn't for their partnerships with the leagues and the leagues' huge lobbying arm.