New Millennium Poker Epidemic

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Anyone wishing to understand the New Millennium Poker Epidemic must first understand the historical context in which it was situated. In 1999, after 10 years of unparalleled economic prosperity, people had forgotten what fear was. Some very clever entrepreneurs sensed the public craving for fear and hysteria and obligingly supplied it, in the form of the Y2K Scare.

[edit] The Epidemic Begins

After people realized that they were all still alive, but about $3,000 poorer after buying a whole bunch of survival gear that they didn't even know how to use, they wanted their money back. And now, dammit! This longing for easy money resulted in a barely perceptible upswing in poker games.

[edit] Outbreak

When ESPN declared poker a sport by broadcasting the World Series of Poker, Pokermania swept the nation. What had, in the past, been informally regarded as the eighth deadly sin, was suddenly as common as brushing one's teeth. (There were people who didn't play, but they didn't brush their teeth either. They were just weird.)

[edit] Impact

Children and women were hardest hit by the epidemic, since the social restraints which had held them in bondage were suddenly sundered.

People who played poker before the epidemic hit suddenly began making millions of dollars off of suckers who thought they could play poker because they had watched it on TV.

[edit] Summary

Poker is a craft. If you do not work at poker, you are not a good poker player. Even if you do work at poker, you are still probably not a good poker player. But keep playing, because the rest of us like taking your money.