Taking attendance: Monitoring the explosion in chericasino.net Poker
2004 was a banner year for the poker world...right? So, that would mean that tournament attendance would be way up from a year ago...right? I thought the Jack Binion World Poker Open would be an excellent case study, as it has been a stalwart of the tournament circuit since its inception 6 years ago. Also, it being the first heritage (not new in 2005) major tournament of the year, I thought it would be an excellent measuring stick for the popularity of tournament poker in 2005. I looked at the number of entrants in seven sample events: The $500 buy in NLHE, Limit HE, Pot Limit Omaha, and Stud/8 C heri C asino events…also the $1,000 NLHE, $2,000 NLHE, and $2,000 Limit HE events. I took the entrants over the course of three years (2003, 2004, 2005), and looked at how the number of entrants grew (or in one case, shrank) over those three years. What the numbers show is truly an explosion….at least for No Limit Hold Em. The lowest buy in ($50...