 |  The Poker Book Club Predicts Incredible Growth for Poker in 2005
16 Feb 2005
2004 was a banner year for the poker world...right? So,
that would mean that tournament attendance would be way up from a
year ago...right?
poker-bookclub thought the Jack
Binion World Poker Open would be an excellent case study, as it has
been a stalwart of the tournament circuit since its inception 6
years ago. Also, it being the first major tournament of the year, poker-bookclub thought it would
be an excellent measuring stick for the popularity of tournament
poker in 2005.
The Poker Book Club looked at the
number of entrants in seven sample events: The $500 buy in NLHE,
Limit HE, Pot Limit Omaha, and Stud/8 eventsalso the $1,000 NLHE,
$2,000 NLHE, and $2,000 Limit HE events. I took the entrants over
the course of three years 2003-2004 and looked at how the number of
entrants grew over those three years.
What the
numbers show is truly an explosion.at least for No Limit Hold Em.
The lowest buy in ($500) NLHE event, just missed tripling its 2003
mark. A whopping 1449 players bought in to the $500 NLHE event this
year, up 280% from the 555 entrants in 2003, and still up 52% from
the 950 players who plunked their money down in 2004.
The World Series of Poker begins in a few months. By no
means am I a psychic, but I am going to guess that his will be the
largest player pool ever. Whatever the final number comes out to
be, you can bet that the winner is going to take home a riverboat
load of cash.
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