If anyone thought that the poker boom was in for a slowdown after a record haul in 2005, then they had better take a look at the cold, hard figures for the first two months of 2006.
With global buy-ins totalling an obscene $376 million in 2005, February of this year was the biggest ever with $25.8 million taken. January saw $38 million, with punters clearly not taking any notice of the fact that Christmas had sapped their bank balances of anything worth talking about. That was a whacking 38% increase on January 2005.
The average buy-in currently sits at over $1,400 while the number of new players willing to try their luck has gone up too. Couple this with yet more stock market speculation and takeovers and it seems that there is absolutely no chance of the bubble bursting yet. In fact it’s only going to get bigger. The advice has to be get in now before things start getting shaky. But then it seems that most have already done that anyway.
If anyone thought that the poker boom was in for a slowdown after a record haul in 2005, then they had better take a look at the cold, hard figures for the first two months of 2006.