in the long run it will separate the wheat from the chaff.
That I have been expecting.
I haven’t been expecting both google and ppc traffic to sour at the same time, lol.
And I liked my preferred little niche phrases! 
If we are all fighting over the same pile of players, however, it won’t be long before most of us have departed for greener pastures
True. And don’t forget that we are fighting over them not by ourselves, but we are fighting with the very casinos we work for.
They compete with us in the PPCs, through scumware, and lately by putting up their own aff sites and trying to seo them.