Tao of Poker

The Hottest Game on TV! is an article from CNN.

Here's a bit: "Card playing -- an activity that filled the evening hours before television was invented -- has improbably become one of TV's hottest programming trends.

After less than a year, the "World Poker Tour" is already the Travel Channel's most popular series ever, a status NBC Sports took note of last week in announcing it would air a poker game on Super Bowl Sunday.

Bravo, probably the most trend-conscious cable channel, beat World Poker Tour operators to the punch by putting together the "Celebrity Poker Showdown." The new series premieres December 2."