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High Stakes Poker TV Show To Launch On GSN
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The latest poker show destined for your television screen is called High Stakes Poker, and will mark the first time that cash game poker as opposed to tournament poker is shown on television. Will audiences care for it? It's not a sure bet by any means.
Most poker shows were hit with reduced ratings this year, including the two biggest ones - the World Series of Poker on ESPN (down 14% on viewership figures from last year), and the World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel (also down from last year's numbers). With many new poker shows in the works, including the much-anticipated but poorly organized (to this point) Professional Poker Tour, the latest pretender is "High Stakes Poker".
If you go to the Bellagio's poker room you will find Bobby's room, named after the CEO and poker legend Bobby Baldwin, a semi-private room that hosts the biggest cash game in the world. It's a $4000/$8000 limit mixed game plus prop bets and Doyle Brunson, Chip Reese, Barry Greenstein, and now Daniel Negreanu are regulars. They routinely go up against billionaire businessmen eager to give some money away in exchange for learning the finer points of high limit poker.
Now GSN will turn it all into a TV show, the first to move away from tournament poker. Far be it for us to point out flaws in ideas, but the reason every other show has been about tournament poker as opposed to cash game poker is that the former is easier to follow as a storyline. There is an end-point to every tournament, a final winner and the drama of competition. In cash game poker the money changing hands might be "real" and of consequence to the players, but audiences won't care. There is no final winner, no narrative arc, and the show is likely to fizzle out. That's just an opinion, however. Maybe the GSN (game show network) knows something that we don't.
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