New Poker TV Game Show Places Regular Joes Alongside The Top Poker Players in the World
The game of poker used to be available only in Sin City casinos or from electronic poker machines, but now it is more popular than ever in Sin City thanks to the internet and TV.
The well-known Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, is now banking on this popularity with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its showroom located in the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, beginning in October.
The new game show will merge comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to participate in the famous Texas-Holdem’ alongside the top poker players. There will be prizes for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.
In “The Real Deal!” the audience members will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 of the World’s most famous poker players have already signed up for the game show about poker. The audience will be able to play along with the 90 minute game thanks to handheld, wireless, touch screen devices located on each seat.
“People who take a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada want to play poker,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a top poker tournament with the people like Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” At the start of the show, six audience members will be chosen to sit at the poker table on stage with two pro poker players. Each audience member is then involved in the action by being dealt a unique hand on their devices. Everyone in the showroom is then involved in the action with big-screen monitors located on stage.
The show’s creators say that you don’t have to be a pro poker player to take part in the poker game. There are other ways to raise your point total, that doesn’t involve the game of poker necessarily. Betting on the suit of the next poker card or trying to guess which state a particular audience member is from, are just some of the ways to come out a winner in this game.
Creators of The Real Deal are also betting on the charisma of the professional poker stars to create some interesting moments. Someone like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time winner of the World Series of Poker, definitely has an idea how to entertain the crowd and is a sure bet for some great TV moments in this new poker game show .
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