But it makes a lot more sense than when I thought those were players.

Oh, and I seriously regret all those times when I was in the military and I decimated the enemy forces about 80% more than what my commanders apparently had in mind. Oops!

Either we have all learned all there is to know about the game or perhaps there really are no new players coming into pokr***

Or, the more likely scenerio is that most new players or ones that already have a few books continue to learn from the internet. With all that is out there for free, plus what you can buy/join, who needs to run to the store and buy a book? Why not just sit home and learn at your own pace with just a click of the mouse. Another probability is that instead of buying 10 poker books you can take that money along w/a couple solid buy-ins and go to a boot camp for some live training. Not so long ago you couldn’t get a pro to even show you the closest bathroom let alone the way they played hands.

The actual numbers in this data (provided by Quantcast) don’t really matter as much as the comparative relationships do. FWIW, I broke it down by monthly visitors simply because it was easier to see than weekly or daily. But you’ll want to divide some of those numbers by 30 if you are looking for daily averages during peak months.

Here’s Full Tilt compared to Pokerati.com, broken down by day (as opposed to month), and I can attest: total bullshit! We had way more than 1.3k on July 14, 2008!

These numbers don’t represent players … they represent website traffic. And even if inaccurate, the same inaccuracies apply to all, so relatively, I’d say it’s at least as accurate as a Pokerati poll.

Here’s the same graph, btw, with Party removed and UB included:

The Romans used to decimate their troops. If a legion fought badly or showed cowardice they’d break the men into groups of ten and have them draw lots. The short straw would be the one to die, and the lucky nine would have to kill their unlucky buddy. Rather an effective motivational technique, one I’d like to see tried out among senior management in our financial services industry.

I call bullshit on the PartyPoker numbers at the peak. 75.6 million people in the United States were on PartyPoker? That’s around the time that the U.S. population reached 300 million — meaning 1 in 4 people were signed up on PartyPoker.

I call bullshit.

I think the data got mixed up somewhere along the line. Also, shouldn’t the post-UIGEA number of U.S. players on PartyPoker be zero?

The height of poker book sales was the fourth quarter of 2005. The fourth quarter of 2008 saw almost exactly 95% fewer poker books being bought.

Either we have all learned all there is to know about the game or perhaps there really are no new players coming into pokrt. Or everyone is borrowing Super System II from their buddy who is always online playing Badugi.