How much poker has changed?

[ramdon p358]

A few years ago finding a tournament with a registration above $ 25K was difficult, now the difficult thing is that a tournament does not exceed that figure. For example partypoker is organizing the SHRB where the lowest purchase is $ 10K.

 

[Maiuchi]

Yes, it changes in a dizzying way, also every day millions of new players are added in the world and that also increases the values

 

[neptun1914]

Currently good thing is that there are buyin levels for everybody from few cents to more than 10K $.

 

[besplatnee]

If you got acquainted with poker relatively recently, then imagine that once the whole world played online poker together, and the main traffic (about 60%) of almost any poker room came from the USA. After Black Friday, the situation changed radically, and the American market, in fact, became closed to the rest of the world, and a number of European countries, such as Italy, Spain, france and portugal, divided their pools and began to form. their own ecosystems. What happened is purely legislative considerations, since most operators would of course want anyone to sit at their tables.
It was great to realize that in some major tournament you are really competing with the whole world. In addition, it allowed maintaining good traffic in any format at any time of the day. I'm glad that since then there have been steps taken to merge segregated markets (e.g. Italy, Spain, France and Portugal have started merging their pools), but there is still a long way to go before the whole world can play online poker. together again. ...