OMG it's even on Speed Channel

[Keith Fellmy]

Well poker is every where now. It's even going to be on Speed Channel. The NASCAR drivers are playing poker. Last night there were 5 channels that had poker on. Now SPeed Channel is getting on the bandwagon.

I'm glad poker is so popular but too much of it not a good thing. Remember Britny Spears.

[Dynasty]

You guys need to stop panicking.

There are about 2,000 televised baseball games every years. It isn't in any jeopardy of being overexposed.

The NFL broadcasts 256 regualar season games and has the NFL Network running 12 months a year. It just keeps growing.

[charlie_t_jr]

I'm sure the poker will suck, but being a NASCAR fan, I'm looking foward to this show.

[skp]

While what you say is perhaps valid, it nevertheless strikes me that there is way too much poker on TV these days. Uncle Bob's Thursday night game can be found on the tube these days. It's nuts.

And no matter how you slice it, poker is not a spectator game like baseball or football. I mean it's one thing to hear and want to hear 'touchdown!' week in and week out; it's quite another to want to continually hear "ooooh, it's the seven of spades...can you believe that river?"

So, I agree with the original poster's fear that TV overexposure may be counterproductive vis vis increasing the popularity of the game in the long run.

[skp]

TV channels in Canada that now show poker:

TSN (The Sports Network)
Sportsnet
Access
Spike
Game show network
Fox Sports World
Men TV
Speed channel
Score
Star (or something like that which shows celebrity poker games).
NBC (with the odd telecast like just before the Super Bowl

Thankfully, we don't get ESPN or the US Travel channel here.

It's getting stupid.

[liquidboss]

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Remember Britny Spears.

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Britney Spears isn't huge still? Last I checked she was still everywhere. Maybe not as huge as when she first blew up but still huge.

[PassiveCaller]

like omg, wow.

[drewjustdrew]

[ QUOTE ]
While what you say is perhaps valid, it nevertheless strikes me that there is way too much poker on TV these days. Uncle Bob's Thursday night game can be found on the tube these days. It's nuts.

And no matter how you slice it, poker is not a spectator game like baseball or football. I mean it's one thing to hear and want to hear 'touchdown!' week in and week out; it's quite another to want to continually hear "ooooh, it's the seven of spades...can you believe that river?"

So, I agree with the original poster's fear that TV overexposure may be counterproductive vis vis increasing the popularity of the game in the long run.

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Very little difference between this and Wheel of Fortune, that has been on the air for about 30 years now. Players solve puzzles and spectators get to play along at home. There is a luck factor in the spin, and some amount of skill is required to win. Without the hole card cams you lose the play at home aspect, so this was a huge innovation.

"Ooooooh, there are three "e's". Would you like to solve the puzzle." People can tolerate A LOT of mundane on TV.

[MtSmalls]

of course Party is now advertising on EVERYTHING, now that they have figured a way around the US laws. I think I saw the "Bad Poker Face?" commercial about 30 times this weekend, not to mention Greg and Moneymaker for Stars about 40 times. Party is even advertising on the little screen in the elevator in my building!

[blatz]

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Remember Britny Spears.

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Ya mean we're all gonna marry trashy male dancers and get photographed going into gas station bathrooms barefoot.

I am worried now.

(2 stupid posts down, when i reach 6 i feel like my poker views will get taken like gospel)

[STLantny]

I had a discussion with my uncle today, he is a barber, and used to make it as a pro poker player when he was my age (20-23). Back in the 70s, and 80s if you didnt have access to a casnio, which no one really did, you didnt have access to the game, other than "being in the know". It took some work and determination to get guys together to donate to you. He made a decent living playing 10/20 stud/he. His theory is that nowadays, there is no stigma attatched to gambling, you have access to any game at any time from the comfort of your home, and its being so accepted by most of mainstream society that its not a big deal to play cards, marketedly different from 30 years ago. If the games still ran, and there was still a market for them back then, when everything was a little darker and bleaker, he doesnt see the games deteriorating anytime soon (barring the govt). The only thing that hurts the POKER economy nowadays, or at least the potential to, in his opinion are: online sports books, access to casinos (craps/BJ) in A LOT of states, and the freakin state run lottery. Think how hard it was to feed a habit back during the "gambling prohibition" during the crackdown on the mob etc. I dont think that its goin anywhere soon.

[ismisus]

yes, but are those 2000 baseball games replayed like crazy? I think they should either show some new poker, or not show anything at all.