People put effort into photoshops and parodies and memes. Threads would get a hundred replies in an hour even if they weren't that good. First some pre lims and then many hours of the Main Event.Ģ+2 was a lively bustling place. You'd get hour long weekly highlights on espn.
You could listen to daily pokernews podcasts or 3 hour long weekly pokercasts about it. You'd root for Ivey, Hellmuth, Esfandiari, Laak, Moneymaker, Matasow, Brunson or Hansen in most tournaments. The WSOP was filled with big name players. Jason Alexander and Orel Hershieser were sponsored players. Pretty much every sng would fill within a minute and there were a wide variety of low stakes tournaments that weren't just re entry, progressive super knock out or Hyper turbos. If you weren't there the minute the Hubble freeroll dropped you weren't getting a seat. PokerStars would be full of a wide variety of games that would fill regularly.
