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Betting on poker - 2004-01-28
Never work. Poker on television? As much as he loves the game, even La Center casino owner George Teeny couldn't imagine it when one of the world's best players, Mike Sexton, proposed the idea of televising tournaments. Poker on TV?

The two were having drinks after playing cards together four years ago at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, when the conversation turned to Sexton's dream of high-stakes games on cable, making celebrities out of the players and causing corporate money to flow their way. Such a move would also connect the popular pastime to the previously unreachable masses and then to the gaming industry pots.
Read the full story at The Columbian

Cable channels raise poker stakes - 2004-01-28
The five are seated in Mark Seeger's Milwaukee basement when the anthem starts to play. Not that anthem. This one is more Kenny Rogers than Francis Scott Key.

Because in this event, you truly do have to "know when to hold 'em; know when to fold 'em."

Seeger and his pals, who faithfully listen to Rogers' "The Gambler" before their every-other-month poker game, are part of an estimated 50 million Americans playing the card game nowadays.
Read the full story at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel