Originally posted on 05/31/2014:

JJ Troll strikes again.

Yes, poker is dead. That's precisely why, according to Bravo Poker Live, every single table is in use at the Bellagio, Aria, Venetian, MGM Grand, and Orleans right now (and it's still only dayshift as I'm posting this). Overall attendance is up in WSOP tourneys because poker is dead. Nobody plays poker anymore, that's why attendance is up in WPT events. Planet Hollywood has converted their entire 2nd floor level into poker tournament space for the summer, because, apparently, nobody wants to play those tournaments.

The reason the name pros from pre-2003 won a lot of tournaments was specifically because poker was less popular and the fields were smaller. And oh yeah, a name pro has won the only high buy-in event completed so far, and the high buy-in event in progress has 6 remaining players, 5 of whom are very well known in the poker community. Not that name-pro success has anything to do with the number of people actually buying into events and playing cash games, but your statements about poker tv pros don't even have a relationship with reality.

There are few people in life who are more annoying than a person who is both obnoxious and wrong. If you insist on being obnoxious at least have the decency to know what you're talking about.

With luck this will be the last JJ post I ever respond to. You are a total waste of time and effort.