Poker Forum

While the World Series of Poker has been broadcast to the world via television in some form or another since the early 1970s, it is really only during the last decade that professional high-stakes poker has become a regular feature of sports and entertainment programming, with the relatively-recent innovation of the “hole card camera” doing much to stimulate interest among viewers. It is not surprising, then, for a list of top ten moments in televised poker to focus primarily on the very recent past, although a couple of earlier moments warrant inclusion as well. The following list -- like...