If players who enjoy the social aspect can’t find a decent game, they’ll eventually stop playing in live tournaments altogether.Īnother problem is that new players will be turned off from the game when they run into non-social players. Of course, this purpose is immediately defeated when you sit down to a table with people who are not only wearing sunglasses, but also staring at their smartphones every free moment. One reason why many people play live poker in the first place is that they want to socialize with others. Pros of Social Experiment Poker Tournament But will the Social Experiment poker tournament take off and become a larger part of the game? Let’s discuss the pros and cons of this event below. Obviously this will appeal to some poker players. “The $100,000 GTE $350 'Social Experiment' will be no electronic devices allowed, headphones, hoodies, or sunglasses allowed.” Here’s a tweet from tournament director Matt Savage on the $100k event: This being said, LA’s Commerce Casino will hold a unique poker tournament on April 29 that cuts out all of these things. But when you combine this with hoodies, sunglasses, and headphones, it merely feels like an online webcam table. There’s certainly nothing wrong with being on a smartphone at the table since everybody is glued to their phones these days. Over the past several years, live poker has become filled with players who wear/use one of the following at tables:
