Poker Perambulation

OK, you set Dali, Matisse, and Van Gogh in this field.  They all paint their picture.  Will we be able to look and then find the field? Bastion tells us that art is everywhere.  Let's view some the art of online gaming.

 Pre-UIGEA
I guess that'd be the Dali picture.  A bit chaotic in construction.  Surreal. There were skins that flowed.  Internet time was a flowing clock.  Everybody saw what they wanted to see.  Fun times.  You could start a site on a wish and a promise.  The competition for eyeballs was fierce and could be a horse's – nahh, I'll won't go there.

UIGEA
Things got impressionistic.  The sites left wanted things to look like a lovely park.  Payment processors took on amorphous shapes in a hazy background.  Were we seeing or imagining? We'd moved from the chaos to a perceived tranquility.  Competition went away.  Tranquility was the impression that the sites were trying for. 

TODAY
It looks like a shift to primary colors.  It is an early impressionistic time.  There is a serious problem here.  Van Gogh never could sell a painting.  The art we're moving toward is based on the bottom line.  Can they make the picture pretty?  

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In the early days, there was massive competition.  We were the catalyst.  We could charge for our eyeball and lead a fickled existence with success.  The UIGEA moved play into the other's court.  The sellers had been gifted with scarcity by the government.  Profits took a nice jump and that has drawn the attention of the heavy weights in gaming. 

When we look back at today from that future, we won't see it as the best of times.  That time was before Uncle saved us.  The question in degrees is will it be the better or worse in our little art show.

The Internet is the new wild west.  There aren't supposed to be any fences.  In poker's early days that was true.  Options galore and everywhere.  When the Feds built the first fence, we lost a lot.  Corporations are eying that fence with the thought to add their own and trying to do it in a wholesale fashion.  The idea is to herd us into their reward card where they are the gamer.

Remember that pseudo Chinese curse here, folks.

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