Thank God for the UIGEA?

I know anything I write today will be a let down, as you were probably waiting for some crazy stripper/booze related story from Jared’s birthday party last night. Sadly, Jared was feeling pretty shitty when we all went out to dinner and we had to postpone the festivities to another night.

I have not always been a glass half full kinda guy, but since life has been so good to me the last few years it’s hard not to be. Just like everyone else I was livid when the UIGEA was announced. I knew the games would get harder and it would be difficult to move money around. The poker scene has pretty much played out as predicted the last few months. For those of you who weren’t around in the earlier days of online poker you probably don’t realize how much tougher the games are now than they were even one year ago.

While I would obviously have preferred the UIGEA to never have existed I had to look for some positives in the situation in order to keep myself from becoming totally depressed about the state of online poker. I truly believe that this whole mess will be cleaned up in the next few years. Once the government gets their cut of the poker pie any of their faux moral motivations will fall away. Many people want to play poker and even more people believe we should have the freedom to do so. I just don’t see some sort of resolution not happening in the near future.

When this does happen there is going to a “poker boom 2”. Nobody will be afraid to play poker online and the game will return as strong, if not stronger, than it was in years past. That means those of us who went through the trial by fire of the UIGEA and came out winners will be handsomely rewarded. If you are able to dedicate yourself to the game and become a winner in this climate the sky is the limit a few years down the road. If I can make 75k-100k a year now a number as high as a million wouldn’t be out of reach with another poker boom.

This is why I think it’s so important to invest in your game now, even if you’re not able to get all star type results yet. The UIGEA climate has exposed flaws in all our games that went unnoticed because the games were so good. If we take the time to work those kinks out we will all be some rich fuckers. So, even if the results aren’t here now just think about investing in your poker future. If you ever had the dream of being a pro poker player, even though it looks bleak, this is not the time to give up hope. Like they say in the stock market “Buy low and sell high”