Originally Posted by
James D
The people complaining are against online poker or clueless. NJ is in its first year of online poker and has no interstate compacts, never mind worldwide reach yet. PokerStars grew in cash game and WCOOP traffic every single year from the start of online poker till the end on Black Friday. Look how significant the increases were year to year.
2002 The first WCOOP ran offering nine events and $730,000 in prize money.
2003 Eleven events were offered, drawing the crowds who wanted to see WSOP winner Chris Moneymaker in action. A total of $2.7 million in combined prize money was up for grabs.
2004 An extra event was added to this WCOOP, and prize money reached $6 million.
2005 Prize money during 2005 was doubled to $12 million, and 15 events were scheduled. Nearly 20,000 took part.
2006 Eighteen events ran during WCOOP 2006, with $18,700,000 in prize money.
2007 This year saw the introduction of short-handed tournaments for the first time. $24 million in prize money was on offer to the more than 40,000 players who took part in the 23 events.
2008 Just under $40 million in prize money was offered over 33 events.
2009 This years event broke the record as the biggest online tournament series staged. Players from 140 countries took part in 45 events over the course of 18 days to compete for the prize pool of over $50 million
2010 More records are beaten and over $63 million in prize money is paid out in 62 events taking place over 23 days.
they need to just give it a chance, they act like it's costing the state money not generating hundreds of millions of dollars LOL