Watching the players

Just did something I haven't done for a long time. I watched poker on TV.

NBC Sports channel, the cable outlet which the peacock net (warning, Variety-speak) uses for retreads and hockey, has been showing reruns of Poker After Dark. The show ran for over four years in the wee hours on NBC. In all they made some 350 eps.

Then the feds decided that Americans could not be permitted to bet their own money in online poker. Nice to know they're looking after our best interests. Just another reason to dislike the endless Obama administration and its endless recession. NBC cancelled the show, which had burned down in the ratings, anyway.

It was a little odd to see the Full Tilt Poker emblems on the players' shirts. The episodes I watched were interesting enough, with the lovely Kara Scott getting felted when she ran into an inconvenient pair of kings from Gabe Kaplan. Once upon a time poker was hot on TV, and it still survives here and there.