There’s an awful lot of poker on television these days. If you wanted to you could probably watch poker on TV almost round clock and big events like World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker receive massive coverage.Poker is great to watch on TV, it is about psychology and people more than it’s about cards and so it attracts a large percentage of non-players. People love watching other people in real situations and poker is latest reality TV craze.
The apparent simplicity of Texas Holdem draws TV audience and holds them, like all great games and sports it is incredibly simple to understand but extremely difficult to master. Everyone from teenagers to grannies can work out basics – three of something beats two of them! It’s only a short step to fill in other hands on ranking table.
TV Texas Holdem also has a very powerful addictiveness about it. Very quickly you will start to like some players more than others, in some cases people will become fans of certain players and follow their progress. If you start watching early on in a tournament, poker has ability to hold attention in such a way that you need to stick with it until end to see who wins.
OK you’re asking, but how will that make me wealthy?
Well, remember all of these non-players who start watching poker on TV and get hooked by it’s sheer entertainment value? Very soon some of them will be saying four little magic words to themselves, four words that will make you money.
“I can do that!”
Yes of course they want to join in. After all it looks so easy when professionals raise all-in with a Jack high and steal pot on a complete bluff against two pairs. What they don't realise is that it takes years of practise to develop instinct to know when they can bluff like that. The other point they miss is that TV will edit out majority of hands and will give a distorted view of play, it will look like these big bluffs can be pulled off every two or three hands!