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Popularizing Poker through Television
For centuries online poker was considered the exclusive domain of middle aged men who spent an evening with the guys to get away from the wife back home. The image of poker, and online poker players, has changed since those days of yore. Now it is not unusual to see someone under fifty, and full head of hair or even a woman (gasp) at the poker table. Poker has become universally popular, and this popularity is directly related to the fact that it is now televised.
Televised poker broadcasts are beamed into every home with cable and an active television set. People start to flip through the channels and before you know it are looking at poker in a new way. Televised broadcasts make poker seem young, exciting, and hip. This is exactly the kind of ambience that draws new faces into the casino online and livens up the average poker game. Televised poker has made the casino the domain of all people instead of just middle aged balding men.
We owe the modern poker diversity to the television set. For all those people who think that television is ruining poker, ask yourself how you became involved in the game. More likely than not, it’s because you realized that the game had an attraction for someone like you.