Network Chooses New Direction
The masses just can’t seem to get enough of poker – from the online casinos
poker sites to land based tournaments, to the High-Stakes Poker Show, U.S.
citizens like to watch poker gambling. What’s interesting though is that the
televisions networks may not know a good thing when they have it right in front
of their faces. The television executives have apparently decided to nix the
popular High-Stakes Poker Show even though the show has been known as a success
and continues to attract numerous viewers. The land online casinos gambling
industry have benefited from the increased enthusiasm in poker shown by
Americans in the last few years, but the television networks may not have as
much faith in holding a viewers interest with a poker show.
The format of the show used top land and online casinos poker gambling
professionals, all well-known in the industry, and pitted those players against
each other to compete from prize pools ranging from $100,000 to even $1 million.
Some of pros gambling on the show in the past include Sammy Farha, Daniel
Negreanu, and Doyle Brunson (who has his own online casinos poker gambling
site). These pros competed in cash games, which was a welcomed alternative for
some viewers to the longevity associated with tournament games and other forms
of poker. The WSOP is one of the most popular televised poker tourneys and spans
days and months of television viewing.
As for the current High Stakes Poker show on the US Game Show Network, there
seems to be little hope. Land and online casinos viewers will have to content
themselves with new content from the network because “apparently the network is
going to go in a different direction and that ain’t good news for our show,”
comments the show’s co-host AJ Benza. The networks will officially announce the
new lineups in the coming weeks, but word on the street is that viewers
shouldn’t hold their breaths that the show will be around for another season. |