Who would want to see mostly old white men play a card game? You might as well have televised a bridge tournament from a retirement home in Boca Raton.
Cue Chris Moneymaker, hole-card cameras and the online poker boom.
Some Were Great. Many Were Not
The WSOP Main Event went from being a forgotten affair on ESPN classic to a flagship event that’s shown across the globe.
There have literally been thousands upon thousands of hours of poker television broadcast on every network from CBS to the Discovery Channel.