Trump Economy and Poker
About six years ago I put up a post pointing out that the good Trump economy was probably very good for the poker games
I mean, was he ever on any of the 3?
They wrote some pretty good poker books
Trump is doing what he knows how to with business. He's bankrupting America. GOP has again massively increased spending, cut revenue, increased taxes for almost everyone, taxing literally all imports with tariffs (or not????), food prices are shooting up, gamblers (even losers) are being assessed a new sin tax next year.
You have to be in on the grift to profit. Even then, is it worth it? Economists literally don't know how to fix the debt now. He broke it that bad. And we're somehow losing most useful government services.
Because people saw he's not serious about the proposed tariffs, only using them for personal gain. Also, companies have made the unsustainable choice to eat the costs of tariffs so they won't increase prices and enrage Trump who is willing to attack anyone for any reason. He's sued many Americans and American companies. I wouldn't be surprised to see military attack a company in America in the next few years.
Even *if* Trump was good for the economy (lol), the one-two punch of DFS and AI was always going to be the nail in the coffin for online poker. It was obvious years ago that the online poker boom could never happen again.
Even *if* Trump was good for the economy (lol), the one-two punch of DFS and AI was always going to be the nail in the coffin for online poker. It was obvious years ago that the online poker boom could never happen again.
I think it's more than just this.Solvers have hurt the game and, especially live, high rakes have hurt the game.
An interesting thing about solvers. I've read a couple of newer books where the authors are giving game theory poker advice. They have little understanding as to what they're saying or why the solver does what it does, but they still have the right answer because they repeat the solver result.
I think it's more than just this.Solvers have hurt the game and, especially live, high rakes have hurt the game.An interesting thing about solvers. I've read a couple of newer books where the authors are giving game theory poker advice. They have little understanding as to what they're saying or why the solver does what it does, but they still have the right answer because they
No, poker is doing well. You have your head in the sand and are using the peak of a bubble as a benchmark to what doing well is, perhaps a day where you were relevant or even winning at the game. You know nothing about solvers. Anything that you’ve pointed to as hurting the game is a small issue comparatively to anything that has challenged the growth of poker in recent times (Trump, legislation, fragmented liquidity, competing markets, etc)
Also, stories of ICE agents detaining foreign tourists have got to be murderous for the tourism/live gambling industry.
Prob a really high correlation of people who complain about the ‘death’ of poker, citing the boom days and pre solvers and Trumpism. Verifiable truth is just not something morons who hold high esteem in their own opinions want to see. Putting down what are largely a group of hard working and passionate people because they act like or learn from robots because they aren’t scumbags with unlit cigars in their mouths who made their ‘fortunes’ off boom era money
Obviously a game with high financial incentives will see people exploit and use tech to cheat and get better at the game. Most of what’s happening is the latter. Your glory days are decades in the past and books claiming any level of expertise at this point are just an ineffective grift. They would be an actual hindrance to get better at a game when there are so many better options with which to intake information
I don't know the details, but I see that Trump and Europe have come to a trade deal. What happened to the repressive tariffs?
Read it for yourself and find out, lazy ass
This ain’t a welfare state
I don't know the details, but I see that Trump and Europe have come to a trade deal. What happened to the repressive tariffs?
What happened to this thread being about poker and the 90% deduction rule that effectively makes gambling unviable for 95% of gamblers who file their taxes correctly?
What happened to this thread being about poker and the 90% deduction rule that effectively makes gambling unviable for 95% of gamblers who file their taxes correctly?
That's certainly a topic worth talking about. But this thread was started before Trump became president. Also, you're probably better off going to this thread for that discussion:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/ne...
and hopefully it gets repealed.
I don't know the details, but I see that Trump and Europe have come to a trade deal. What happened to the repressive tariffs?
I thought you would have quietly retreated from the topic after making up nonsense about your books being subject to VAT in Europe. And I'm sure your fellow citizens who will now pay the 15% extra on EU products will think that tariffs are repressive.
That's certainly a topic worth talking about. But this thread was started before Trump became president. Also, you're probably better off going to this thread for that discussion:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/ne...
and hopefully it gets repealed.
So is this thread just your own personal trump thread now since you don’t care to discuss trumps impact on poker anymore ?
Ini don’t really see the point of discussing future impacts when we can’t even get acknowledgement over what happened in Trump’s first term.
So how is that repeal coming?
