I am a bit confused.
Now saying that is really not a shocker. I usually am either playing poker live or playing poker online or thinking about poker or drinking somewhere near a poker room. I don't really have a complicated life but lately I have been confused about, of all things, poker!
First, I read that numbers are down in card rooms in Las Vegas, down also in Monte Carlo and Macau... well down just about everywhere. It seems there is some world-wide financial crisis and that is affecting how many people are playing poker.
Well, this confuses me. But then again, I am confused when the poker rooms are empty on Christmas day, I mean you would think all my Jewish poker buddies would come by for a game?
So OK, Lenny is not the deepest thinker on the planet but tell me something. With all of the parts of the planet without internet access shouldn't the number of online players be growing just because there are new servers and new Wi-Fi coming online every day? And don't the local casinos pick up the slack when folks decide not to fly to the big gambling hot spots but instead drive to the small room down the road?
Then there are the tournaments. Sure tournament numbers are down at the same event compared to last year, but isn't that because there are more tournaments to choose from? They added new events to the European Poker Tour (EPT); there is a tournament next month in Mexico and the Asian Poker Tour has more stops. I can't even keep straight how many different poker tours have "Latin America" in their title. If the events are smaller but there are more events, doesn't that at least have the potential for there being more overall poker players?
Finally, my confusion was complete. When I discovered that the babe of all poker babes, the original model of poker babery, Ms. Cycalona Gowen has sued Full Tilt Poker for breach of contract. I was shocked but used this as an excuse to post yet another picture of Clonie. But what I really wonder is why, if she is out at FT and after them for $40 million dollars. Why is this site still active?
I was going to go and lie down to ponder all of this but instead I just put myself on a $2/$5 No Limit list, that should help with my poker confusion.
