Has televised poker just reached its nadir

[mj2c]

Just downloaded Pokerstars.net Million Dollar Challenge. Surely the most cringingly awful show ever. Negranu will do anything. It makes even Sky Poker look like Poker Night Live;-)

[keilan303]

Joe Hachem's 'The Poker Star' could tip the scale for the biggest pile of gash ever created...think The Apprentice meets Ace In The House.

[DaveShoelace]

Joe Hachem's 'The Poker Star' could tip the scale for the biggest pile of gash ever created...think The Apprentice meets Ace In The House.

is the winner whoever can listen to his badbeat stories the longest?

[lazaroonie]

Joe Hachem's 'The Poker Star' could tip the scale for the biggest pile of gash ever created...think The Apprentice meets Ace In The House.

is the winner whoever can listen to his badbeat stories the longest?

i think if i could run good enough for 4 days to scoop 8 million bucks, i would proably put up with a lifetime of bad beats afterwards....

[bolt pp]

I dont understand the title, is it the transexual "bird" that won big brother a few years back?

[Dale]

you gotta realise that these shows aren't made / targeted at experienced knowledgeable poker players like yourself. the target demographic is recreational players, people that barely know that a flush beats a straight etc. the more of those getting interested in poker and opening accounts online the better, so the more shows like these the better

[tikay]

you gotta realise that these shows aren't made / targeted at experienced knowledgeable poker players like yourself. the target demographic is recreational players, people that barely know that a flush beats a straight etc. the more of those getting interested in poker and opening accounts online the better, so the more shows like these the better

Correct.

The poker market as we know it is far too small to interest TV companies much. So the target audience of most is the small-beer recreational player market, whch is absolutely huge.

There is almost no money at all in offerring poker shows to appeal to the big boys. The value is not there.

[MrDickie]

I used to like Poker Night Live......

[Girgy85]

you gotta realise that these shows aren't made / targeted at experienced knowledgeable poker players like yourself. the target demographic is recreational players, people that barely know that a flush beats a straight etc. the more of those getting interested in poker and opening accounts online the better, so the more shows like these the better

Does it? FML thats where ive been going wrong!!

[tikay]

I used to like Poker Night Live......

So did I!

That'll be the almost universally loved & missed Poker Night Live which went belly up because though viewers enjoyed it - remember the howls of protest when they announced closure? - they never played on the Online Room PNL was promoting. So it went busto.

[kukushkin88]

Most watched poker tv programme ever, 4 million viewers the majority of which (due to the format) are lilkely to be new to poker, it has to be good for the game. ( ) nadir