Is Poker Night LIVE The Television Show Poker Needs Right Now?

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Poker Night in America is launching a new celebrity focused poker show in March.  Community response to the show, dubbed Poker Night LIVE, has been a mixed bag, making it the latest entry in the, “Is this good for poker?” debate.

Just what the Dr. ordered?

Poker Night in America’s new show is challenging two widely held beliefs about poker programming.

Those two beliefs are:

• Viewers are more engaged when there is a lot of money on the line.
• Viewers prefer watching high-level play with the best of the best competing against one another.

Poker Night LIVE is flipping both of these notions on their heads.

The game will be played for low-stakes ($5/$5 blinds with a $500 buy-in).

The lineups will consist of largely celebrity amateurs, with a single well-known poker name, and a poker personality, Joe Stapleton, thrown into the mix to keep the atmosphere light and the table talk flowing. To appeal to as wide a swath of celebrities as possible, PNiA is offering to go to the celebrities’ homes and give them a poker primer.

“This show is going to be different from any show that’s ever been done,” Rush Street Productions President Todd Anderson told PokerNews. “It’s...

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These first couple paragraphs I summarize why poker is viewed as ' hazardous'. Below, beginning in the 3rd paragraph, are my safe suggestions (10+ years in this wild trade). In July 2010, HR2267 was presented and ever since lots of other costs to regulate poker by Federal U.S. federal government were promoted. None have actually passed the Feds yet but state federal governments New Jersey, Delaware, Nevada and Pennsylvania so far, have penned poker legal online. When a Federal expense ultimately passes the full House, Senate, and signed into law by the President, totally legal online poker, licensed and managed in the US, will be right around the corner and not merely by a few states on a state-by-state basis.

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