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World Series of Poker
The public loves to play games online, but they
don't frequently like to watch games on television. All that
has changed over the past few months. The hot new sport on television
doesn't entail a ball or a bat, or even a skateboard. All you
need is a deck of cards to play the Internet's hottest sport,
poker.
Yes, poker is enormous these days, thanks to the fame of cable
television broadcasts of the World Series of Poker on ESPN and
a new, second series of poker programs called World Poker Tour
on the Travel Channel. Searches connected to poker and these
two television programs have augmented considerably over the
past month.
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There are lots of varieties of poker receiving
searches -- video poker, draw poker, and yes, even strip poker,
but the hottest game is Texas Hold 'em, the brand of poker played
in these televised tournaments. Precise searches for Texas Hold
'em are now triple what they were at the start of the year.
Hold 'em players all get two face-down cards and share five
face-up cards in the middle of the table, making their best
five-card hand from those seven cards.
The World Series of Poker takes place each April and May at
Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, and the emphasize is
the No Limit Hold 'em tournament. This year, 839 people paid
the $10,000 entry fee -- or were eligible in some way to have
somebody else pay it for them. One of those who didn't pay himself
was the ultimate champion, a 27-year-old amateur from Tennessee
named Chris Moneymaker. He had spent $40 on an online poker
site, won their tournament, and they backed him at the World
Series. Moneymaker topped hundreds of men who play poker for
a living, and turned that $40 turned into $2.5 million in winnings.
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