黑色星期五不只是对在线扑克的有影响，现场扑克也遭遇黑色星期五。起初，有人担心美国的比赛在数量上大幅暴跌会被吓跑扑克玩家。
事实上很多玩家没有途径来赢得他们进入比赛的方式。
而实际上，在全美国各地的许多现场锦标赛的实际参与人数，保持相对不变。通常的波动和下降，但现在的激烈程度总体上和去年的这个时候没有差异。
山姆特里克特25岁，是一个专业的扑克玩家，今年他的缺口已经高达3亿美元左右。
他说，今年的比赛和往年的比赛有一个明显的区别，今年的比赛不是实际数字。
他说，有很多人吐出了自己的现金，以获得进入现场游戏的资格，因为他们不能在线游戏。
很多人选择采取了这样的方式，并发挥了资金的作用。这是很好的，所有这些线上的玩家转向了现场扑克游戏，他们可发挥的领域是很大的。
“从我个人出发，我进入现场扑克比赛，首先为了获得经验，然后争取赢得一个手镯。”山姆特里克特说到。
事实上，在新的扑克玩家中，许多人还没有想过向一些顶级现场扑克比赛大进军。
译文：
Black Friday was always going to have an effect not just on online poker, but across live tournaments as well.
At first it was feared live tournaments in the USA would slump drastically in numbers due to players being scared off from poker altogether.
Throw into the mix as well the fact many players no longer had the usual qualification avenues to win their way into the big tournaments.
In reality though the actual participation at many live tournaments across the country have remained relatively unchanged.
There’s the usual fluctuations up and down but on the whole there are no drastic differences between now and this time last year.
Sam Trickett is an English professional who’s played on the WSOP for four years.
The 25 year old is a specialist when it comes to live play no limit hold’em and this year he’s already notched up around $3 million.
He says there’s a noticeable difference in the tournaments this year, it’s not in the actual numbers but more the type of people that are there.
He says there’s plenty of people coughing up their own cash to get into the games either because they can’t play online or because they’ve already made the switch to live play.
“A lot of people did choose to take a shot and play off their own bankroll and only get staked if it didn’t go well,” Trickett said.
“It was good to see all these online players turning up who maybe aren’t as strong at certain elements of the game, and the fields were still big weren’t they?
“On a personal level I entered a few tournaments where I knew I wasn’t a favourite over the field, just to get experience and try to win a bracelet.”
Indeed there’s been a flood of new poker players in 2011 with names many people have never heard of making big inroads in some of the top tournaments.
Making it even harder to separate the pack is the fact the usual sponsors logo’s and patches are either different or no existent altogether.
Pokerstar’s patches, once a mainstream, are now rare and Fulltilt patches barely exist at all.
