FoxMS
Visionary
Silver Level
I do not think so. Obviously, the number of players in online games has increased dramatically, but this does not mean that players have started making money playing poker. The pandemic did not affect the skill or experience of the players.
ObbleeXY
Visionary
Bronze Level
An odd question, given that these statistics are actually out there.
"The Stars Group, a renown online poker and casino company in Canada, has a whopping $735 million in total revenue from January to March 31, 2020 just because it received a huge surge of players when most countries were on lockdown. The Stars Group noted that it was March where they received the largest increase in customer activity, along with soaring sales from their casino product offers."
For me, this also coincides with my devotion to Poker learning as well as the move from live poker to online games. One of the live poker clubs I belong to moved online to pokerstars and instead of Monthly live games we're playing weekly games online, and then continue to play in public games after our tourney ends. So for us, it is a massive increase in poker activity and all of it online now.
On the other hand, one of the other live clubs I belonged to has not moved online at all. A missed opportunity, really. The venue is cheaper, it's easier to organise and it doesn't matter if people show up late. You never get that " we prepped for 12 tables and only got enough entries for four" malarkey.
The lockdown has been great for my poker journey. Also have become good mates with some of the regs, as we use a VoIP tool for conversing together as a group whilst we play. (good for getting reads!)
Cheers,
ObbleeXY
"The Stars Group, a renown online poker and casino company in Canada, has a whopping $735 million in total revenue from January to March 31, 2020 just because it received a huge surge of players when most countries were on lockdown. The Stars Group noted that it was March where they received the largest increase in customer activity, along with soaring sales from their casino product offers."
For me, this also coincides with my devotion to Poker learning as well as the move from live poker to online games. One of the live poker clubs I belong to moved online to pokerstars and instead of Monthly live games we're playing weekly games online, and then continue to play in public games after our tourney ends. So for us, it is a massive increase in poker activity and all of it online now.
On the other hand, one of the other live clubs I belonged to has not moved online at all. A missed opportunity, really. The venue is cheaper, it's easier to organise and it doesn't matter if people show up late. You never get that " we prepped for 12 tables and only got enough entries for four" malarkey.
The lockdown has been great for my poker journey. Also have become good mates with some of the regs, as we use a VoIP tool for conversing together as a group whilst we play. (good for getting reads!)
Cheers,
ObbleeXY
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007Leon
Rock Star
Silver Level
i think, is time when people who never play poker online are doing it
KozakAlex
Visionary
Bronze Level
It seems not, because people switched to the remote version of work. Or they found another job. Poker is more of a waste of money. A small number of people regularly win at poker. You can win a substantial amount, but regular income is unlikely to get. It's more fun. So my answer is no!
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neptun1914
Legend
Silver Level
At the beginning of the worldwide lockdown that happened during march and april definitely there were much more players at pokerstars than normal. In a few months though situation returned to just slightly higher number of players than before pandemic. Main reason for the initial surge of the number of players was not related to the will to earn money for living but the boredom caused by the isolation and the fact that at least in the beginning people still had some money left and did not expect lockdown to continue for long.