Online play always seemed to be a little bit out of my comfort zone. Online seems to be more about the statistics and math side of poker (which is a big part of the game but something I usually consider without really having to think about it). And with online gamers it is “positive ev” this and “nit” that and “c bet” this and “lmfao”… it’s like another whole world out there, even for someone like myself who has played poker for many years.

Nichoel Peppe – 02/2010 – in PokerStars Blog

 

I realized that people are getting better at poker. Whereas I used to sit down at a table and presume people were bad until they show me that they aren’t, now I play and presume people are good until they prove otherwise.

Gavin Griffin – 01/2010 – in PokerStars Blog

I think Rush Poker is an evolution of the game of poker that is here to stay. It’s a brilliant move by Full Tilt Poker and I applaud them for being innovative. I hadn’t played a hand of No Limit Hold’em cash in over six months because I was just too bored of the game. I can’t get enough of rush. If the poker sites can do anything to get people enthusiastic about playing, then they are doing something right. That’s what gets fish to the games.

Andrew “muddywater” Wiggins – 01/2010 – in Poker News Daily

Poker, like life itself, is flexible, supple, elastic, constantly in a state of change, and nearly organic. It’s always shifting, however slight and imperceptive that shift may be, until it morphs into something you would probably not recognize if you stayed away from it for a while.

Lou Krieger

The fact people accept that you’re a poker player now is a big thing. In those days, you were a second-class citizen. They thought you were a gangster if you played poker for a living.

Doyle Brunson – 08/2009 – in Poker News Daily

Reraising with 7-4 or Q-5, which you see quite a bit now, was unheard of in 2003. It just wasn’t done – by anybody. No matter how good of a poker player you were, you just didn’t do it. It seems like it’s common practice today.


Chris Moneymaker – 11/2008 – in CardPlayer

For years, with the exception of Amarillo Slim (who appeared on the Tonight Show six times), the World Champions of Poker never did anything to help promote tournament poker and/or the poker industry.  And in my mind, that’s a big reason poker took so long to take off and grow. Although they have no obligation to do so, I think that the reigning World Champion of Poker should travel, do public appearances, seminars, photo sessions, television shows, etc., in order to help promote the poker community.

Mike Sexton – 01/2008 – In Poker News Daily