Has Poker Changed much? I think compared to 5 years ago, the game is very different.
Same 52 cards, flop-turn and river routine.
But comparing to 5-10 year interval, there is much more information about poker available to all. thousands of youtube channels, and there is no need for new players to read anything, they can watch and listen now, so in this field the poker has evolved.
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The poker gods are trying to get rid of fish-donk terminology, cause it's a form of bullying and the sponsors of daily broadcast are leaving poker because suddenly they realise that they're the fish.
Instead of fish-donk, there is a new terminology, for example GTO player,
Game Theory Optimal....
It's like trying to exploit opponents weaknesses by playing trash
hands agressively and playing monster hands slowly.
To me it sounds like they're trying to rob the robber using weak play as a weapon and Nash's theory as a relaxing explanation pill why the fish won that pre-flop all-in with K7os or lost with AA during post-flop play.
So the game hasn't changed at all, same story wrapped into new cover. by the end of the day poker platform swallows all money using rake, some poker mules(pros-regs) maybe will bite some cash, and others-majority will have to go to work in the morning to make a deposit in the evening. And in result there is absolutely no useful product created for the society, just millions and millions human-hours washed away into the toilet of flop-turn-river. Objectively online poker is close to waepon os mss destrction, if we'll convert average human life into hours, and we'll check how many human-hours are spent per day at poker platforms - we will see that these 52 cards are erasing millions of human-hours like if they have never existed and the funny part of it is that people also pay to get rid of their time, getting a small dose of serotonine increasement if they win something or anger and tilt when they lose.:idea: That's poker... don't forget to live a life while you're playing it.