The best and the worst TV shows dedicated to poker

In recent years, poker has squatted the waves of many television channels! Whether in the United States or Europe, the famous table game has been devoted to many TV shows of all kinds. If some of its emissions are particularly respected by the passionates of the game, others squarely border on ridicule. Here are the best and the worst TV shows dedicated to poker. If you thought you saw everything in terms of television programs, you are not at the end of your surprises!

High Stakes Poker

High Stakes Poker is an American poker television program broadcast on the GSN cable channel from January 2006 until 2011. The program will have run fans of the program for nearly 7 seasons. The shootings took place respectively in the terrestrial casinos Golden Nugget, The Palms or at the South Point Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

This is the first TV show to truly revolutionized the treatment that we reserved up to the game on cathodic waves. Respected by poker fans around the world, the High Stakes Poker program is a real reference in terms of poker, even if the show is no longer broadcast. The many episodes available on YouTube still continue to fill up on views. Big names in poker have illustrated themselves in the show such as Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Patrick Antonius, Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu or Doyle Brusen.

Poker After Dark

Like High Stakes Poker, the Poker After Dark show is also a reference for enthusiasts of the famous game! The television program has managed to bring together the biggest names in the planet's poker. Launched only one year after High Stakes Poker, on January 1, 2007, the After Dark show Poker managed to be broadcast for 7 seasons until its judgment in 2011.

If you are nostalgic, you can also find many videos of the show on YouTube.

PokerStars Big Game

Launched in June 2010, the program Pokerstars Big Game - also known as Pokerstars.net Big Game or simply Big Game - is a television program sponsored by the online games Pokerstars.net and broadcast on the channel Fox.

This program allows an internet qualified to face international poker virtuosos. For this, the player is entrusted with the sum of $ 100,000 at the start of the game. The show, however popular, was only renewed an additional season, two seasons in total.

Bluff's house

With our American friends, we savor the poker in a trash version! La Maison du Bluff is a show that takes up the codes of reality TV shows. Thus, viewers can appreciate poker games played by bimbos, characters typical of these kinds of programs, all, in luxurious villas located in different European countries.

Even if the show can boast of having seen famous players scrolling, it is nevertheless mocked by poker enthusiasts. However, the program continues, all the same, to make the heyday of the chain to which it is broadcast since the show attracts more than 10 million viewers every season and has already signed for the shooting of a Sixth part.