The Internet Poker Boom
Internet Poker Boom Brings The TV Firms Running (not the other way around)
The San Diego Sign Newpaper have written a decent report about Online Poker and it's popularity on TV.
Excerpt From The Online Poker and TV Report
"With her black cat Little Oscar lounging on her arm, Madruga joins tens of thousands of poker players from across the nation and around the world who square off against each other daily at virtual tables in Internet Poker Parlors.Gamblog Comment :: Now when the TV Firms get involved, you know something big is going on. :: Internet Poker has become massive! I like the inferrence that TV started poker's resurgence heheh. I don't think 1 poker programme did the trick alone yawn. Anyway, a decent poker report nonetheless.
A game played on some level by an estimated 50 million Americans, poker is the engine driving a renewed surge in gambling, from Indian casinos and Vegas pleasure palaces to burgeoning Internet gaming sites.
Poker owes its new-found popularity to television, specifically a new technique that puts viewers in the middle of the high-noon, heart-thumping intensity of high-stakes showdowns in a deceptively simple game called Texas Hold 'Em". Read more about the Internet sees poker's resurgence on TV, then raises game's popularity to new heights
