In this post, part four of our top 10 poker television shows, we feature shows number four and three. Show number four is Poker Royale and show number three is The World Poker Tour. Poker Royale aired on GSN while The World Poker Tour aired on the Travel Channel, GSN, and Fox Sports.
Poker Royale, number four on our list, aired briefly from 2004-2005. During that brief period there were actually seven series that aired. The show featured no limit Texas hold’em poker. Episodes of this show run as re-runs periodically on GSN. The show originally aired on Friday nights from 10-11pm as part of GSN’s Casino Night block. At the conclusion of the show the host was John Ahlers and the commentator was Robert Williamson III.
The shows tournaments featured a variety of different battles between different groups. One popular matchup was boys versus girls while another popular matchup was celebrities versus pros.
Show number three on [...]
Our top 10 list of poker television shows continues to roll along as this post will feature numbers six and five on the top 10 list. Number six is Celebrity Poker Showdown, which aired on Bravo, and number five is Poker Superstars, which aired on Fox Sports.
We begin this post with number six on the top 10 list. Number six is Celebrity Poker Showdown. The show began running in 2003 and it takes place in Las Vegas and New Orleans. The hosts during the runtime of the series include Dave Foley, Phil Gordon, Phil Hellmuth, Kevin Pollak and Robert Thompson. The show involves celebrities playing poker on the television channel known as Bravo.
The celebrities that sat at the championship table in each of the previous seven seasons include the following:
Season 7: Steven Culp, Barry Corbin, Dule Hill, Kevin Nealon, Wendy Pepper
Season 6: Andrew Firestone, Stephen Collins, Kathy Najimy, Cheryl Hines, Eddie Cibrian
Season 5: Jason [...]
This is part two of our list of top 10 poker television shows and it focuses on Tilt and Mansionpoker.net Poker Dome Challenge. We begin with number eight, Tilt.
Tilt is one of the few fictional television shows about the popular card game of poker. That’s right; it is completely fictional. The series was created by and aired on the ESPN family of networks. The main characters were made up but sometimes real poker playing stars made guest appearances on the show. The main character of the show was known as Don ‘The Matador’ Everest, played by actor Michael Madsen. The character was known for drawing in the suckers. The show began airing in 2005.
People who made cameos in the show Tilt were Phil Hellmuth, David Williams, Norman Chad, Lon McEachern, Daniel Negreanu, T.J. Cloutier, Erik Seidel and Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg. Golic and Greenberg are hosts of ESPN’s Mike and Mike in the Morning, [...]
