Poker Players Alliance spokesperson Carolyn Kemp estimates that 8 million to 10 million Americans were playing online poker before the crackdown two weeks ago. Kemp told the San Francisco Chronicle that most of those players are now looking for games.
Due to strict licenses that limit the number of poker tables in California, floor managers can't just add more. They've resorted to opening up the amount of players allowed to play in tournaments.
However, the biggest disadvantage moving from online to live play is playing one hand at a times. This idea may sound far fetched, but it's very common for online players to play up to four tables at the same time. One player broke the Guinness Book of World Record two years ago by playing a total of 62 tables winning $23 -- just imagine how much money could have been lost.
Even professional poker player Daniel Negreanu -- winner of four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championship titles with estimated earnings of $3.6 million -- has been forced to play live only.
"My plan leading up to the [World Series of Poker] was to workout, golf, and then play online in the evenings," Negreanu wrote on his blog. "Well, I can't do that now."
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