Coronavirus = More Online Poker?

[booosteeer23]

There will be more people playing online poker since most of them are at home.

 

[Glondark]

From my perspectiv I think this is a big opportunity to bring back the gold days of poker...

 

[Max Diver]

For all online poker sites, it will be good people need to stay home. Way more players online for sure. They are gonna make more money for sure.

 

[firefist23]

Corona virus

Do you guys think more people are playing online vs live due to Coronavirus?

Definitely, and I'm one of them but holy, I still get bored from self isolating even from playing 3 different sites.

 

[Evan Jarvis]

Do you guys think more people are playing online vs live due to Coronavirus?

I definitely think we'll see an increase in the online poker volume, but not by a crazy amount

yes, people are at home and have more free time, online poker is a great way to stay entertained

but, people are limited now in disposable income, so a lot of players who would normally have a small gambling budget for poker no longer have that

One thing's for sure, I'm going to be streaming a lot more online poker due to corona virus, because what else does one do when they Love Poker, and aren't allowed to leave their house???

If you wanna join me for some company while you enjoy your sessions, I'll be at http://twitch.tv/gripsed every day

hope everyone is staying healthy and being positive :icon_prof

 

[Hideo_gd]

No doubt. I haven't played in a long time, but I'm here... =P

 

[gabryyyel31]

Let's make online poker great again. :wink:

 

[fundiver199]

This is good resource management. It will pay not to fish them to extinction [emoji14]

 

[luckyou]

Thats for sure you can see numbers in pokerstars for example havent seen such a big pool of players long time

 

[fundiver199]

Some game forms seem to get much more of the extra activity than others though. The Zoom tables on Stars have only seen a small increase in the number of players, but traditional cash tables are seeing a ton more action, and tournaments are vastly exceeding the guarantied price pools. Right now I am playing a 4.4$ "big" with a guarantied price pool of 2k, but it actually reached 4.850$. I am also in a 4.4$ bounty builder with a guarantied price pool of 1k, but it actually reached 2.890$.

 

[digdug0037]

Yes it is up for sure. And along with that the games have got much better, at least the larger buy in games. Of coarse you have to realize that players that make a living off playing live poker are now playing online so it makes sense.

 

[digdug0037]

I am just happy this virus hit in 2020 where we have the technology to occupy ourselves. Had this been 1920, it not only would have had a much worse ending, but no computers to pass time or get vital information concerning the virus.

 

[fundiver199]

I am just happy this virus hit in 2020 where we have the technology to occupy ourselves. Had this been 1920, it not only would have had a much worse ending, but no computers to pass time or get vital information concerning the virus.

There was actually a flu pandemic in 1918 called "the Spanish flu", which was probably a lot worse than this one. For some unknown reason it mainly killed adults in their best age, whereas this one behave like a normal flue and kill mainly old people. One could also argue, that we actually get to much information today, and that this has caused the world to panic.

 

[fundiver199]

Yes it is up for sure. And along with that the games have got much better, at least the larger buy in games. Of coarse you have to realize that players that make a living off playing live poker are now playing online so it makes sense.

More importantly there are many recreational players, who are used to go in the casino and gamble for 200$ at a time. They will often not find it exciting to play online for pennies, so they jump right into limits, where they are completely crushed by online regulars

 

[tauri103]

I confirm the number of players to increase and the good news is that many of them are not trained or very few. it is therefore the right time to mount your banckroll. some professionals say that it is as if we had gone back 7 years by comparison to the level of play. there are many people who are used to betting on sports bets or playing at the casino and who can no longer do it.

 

[NCDaddy]

If ever there was a time to legalize online poker world wide.....it is now!

 

[geokara]

i think, yes more people play pocker now

 

[freestocks]

Maybe this will help online poker in the long term.

 

[fa1920]

Coronavirus = more online action of all kinds, there are games that did not exceed 600 users and now in quarantine exceeds 3000. A crazy thing

 

[Rob Hobson]

Sure it is

 

[igorneia]

question

in my case it doesn't matter, because in my city there is no physical poker club, or online game or not.

 

[pykubepx111]

coronavirus helps the influx of weak poker players!

 

[stephan7]

coronavirus helps the influx of weak poker players!

Amen to that

 

[francisco mendoza]

Coronavirus advances in the US

There are already 400 dead and 33,000 infected, At least 254,000 Americans have undergone the covid-19 test and have received the results.

 

[PHX]

I can report that the games I play on Stars mostly Omaha mtt have seen an increase. Fields have been 10-15% bigger this week past.