Will virtual poker one day completely replace live poker as we know it?
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i can say what is gonna happen millions years after me, but i can guarantee that in the next 50-100 years this is not gonna happen...and really i doubt if this is gonna happen ever, live vs virtual is like comparing jerking in front of pc watching porn vs real sex with big breasted blond
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Live poker will always be around, but I'm waiting for the day that there's some type of electronic poker being monitored by audio commentators. I think that will be a step towards improving electronic poker someday. I mean wouldn't it be cool to hear electronic commentators stating Greenmohave folds, pochui is allin, etc. LOL
Maybe that's a bit farfetched, but you don't know based on how fast technology changes. I mean you can now send a text message by phone, by stating what you want to text.
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Posted by erru9107: , replace one hard drive the contains well over 1000 books
just FYI on this point, eBooks are generally about 1MB for a normal novel. The average HDD these days is 2TB - with 3TB soon being the new standard. Let's go back a bit and just use a 1TB HDD as an example.
Posted by Greenmohave: I think that will be a step towards improving electronic poker someday. I mean wouldn't it be cool to hear electronic commentators stating Greenmohave folds, pochui is allin, etc. LOL
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As for the original question. No, I've seen Riker, Worf, Troi, Dr. Crusher and Data playing poker on Star Trek TNG. They were using cards and chips and that is set in the 24th century.
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Posted by jessthehuman:
Posted by erru9107: , replace one hard drive the contains well over 1000 books
just FYI on this point, eBooks are generally about 1MB for a normal novel. The average HDD these days is 2TB - with 3TB soon being the new standard. Let's go back a bit and just use a 1TB HDD as an example.
Posted by Greenmohave: I think that will be a step towards improving electronic poker someday. I mean wouldn't it be cool to hear electronic commentators stating Greenmohave folds, pochui is allin, etc. LOL
The number, as of right now: 129,864,880. Stacked on your nightstand, they’d tower three-and-a-half thousand kilometres in the air. Enough to climb to . . . well, nowhere. Enough to die of oxygen deprivation, let’s say.
So basically, the entire worlds literature could fit on 130 terrabytes if the average size is 1mb each book. Actually closer to 170 terrabytes, since a terrabyte isn't actually a full 1000 gb.
Point is, 170 terrabytes isn't that much. Heck, I've probably got around 10TB+ alone just combining my computers (5tb in my work computer alone ) / game consoles / phone etc.
Of course if you throw the entire worlds musical/movie/tv shows, commercials, and basically any other media, you'd be look at billions of terrabytes.
Edited by retribution (28 August 2012 @ 00:42 GMT)
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Posted by jessthehuman:
Posted by erru9107: , replace one hard drive the contains well over 1000 books
just FYI on this point, eBooks are generally about 1MB for a normal novel. The average HDD these days is 2TB - with 3TB soon being the new standard. Let's go back a bit and just use a 1TB HDD as an example.
Thx. I kinda figured my numbers were way off but I didn't really look into it. I'm at my girlfriends atm and I'm having a hard time just getting her to let me be on any forums for more then 20-30 minutes
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Live poker will survive in my oppinion but online is more convinient for the player,saving time playing from home when you want.On the other side all electronic staffs is easier to riigg,control the informations so .Up and downs
i think not....virtual poker is going earn more more players but this players will also play live because its a whole new different experience when you play live....so i think live and virtual poker will grow together.....
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No, live poker never ends, it is really a different game as online poker, like live tells and so on. And you need no real money coins for this reason you can play with chips I think both of them, online and live poker growth in the future.
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Im not so sure about the growth of the online poker. Maybe the player numbers can get bigger, but the poker rooms probably will be less in the future. After the line up of the Countries trying to tax everything its not an easy sector to expand any more
I think both of them, online and live 
