Watching a year-old YouTube rerun of Joey Ingram's Poker Life Podcast with European Poker Tour commentator Joe Stapleton this week, I came across an interesting perspective on where poker's next boom might come from.
According to Stapleton, a knowledgeable poker industry veteran and without a doubt the funniest commentator in the game, poker's original boom in the early 2000s was derived from two things: Chris Moneymaker's historic and rather unbelievable 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event win, and the popularity of the 1998 movie Rounders.