Worldwide, the pandemic caused economic difficulties.
Can this situation be considered to have increased the number of poker players in search of financial income?

I think it has increased the number of players in tournaments with free entry and also the number of players who play to pass the time because they cannot leave the house.

Unless it's because you can play offline...

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.

An odd question, given that these statistics are actually out there.
"The Stars Group, a renown 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

i think, is time when people who never play poker online are doing it

I started playing when i saw it is going to be raf with pandemic. I wish i never did that. Spend way to much money for fun. Damn hell costly fun. Will stop it as soon i can move safe around.

I think that because of the current situation most people are sitting at home and just killing time playing poker !!!

Originally Posted by tipejo767

Worldwide, the pandemic caused economic difficulties.
Can this situation be considered to have increased the number of poker players in search of financial income?

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!

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.