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Erik Seidel (professional poker player and multiple WSOP bracelet winner) Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg (ESPN morning talk show hosts on Mike and Mike in the Morning) appeared. Golic played one of the poker players in the tournament. He can be seen at the buffet table eating a donut during one of the tournament breaks.
At the 2012 World Series of Poker, Chad made the final table of the $2,500 1/2 Omaha 8 1/2 Stud 8 event where he finished in sixth place for $36,093, and in 2014, he finished 10th in the $10,000 Stud 8 or better event for $34,550. In 2020, he also finished in the money in two World Series of Poker online bracelet events.
Poker has been appearing on television somewhat regularly since the late-1970s. In the United States, CBS started airing the final table of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event as an annual one-hour show around this time and later by ESPN, which were casino-produced shows produced under a time-buy arrangement for sports omnibus programming such as the CBS Sports Spectacular.
In 2002, ESPN reached out to McEachern, who was working as a mortgage banker at the time, to cover poker. [1] [5] [6] He was brought back in 2003 alongside Norman Chad for the 2003 World Series of Poker. [1] [5] [6] The tournament was won by Chris Moneymaker and led to the Moneymaker effect and a corresponding surge in poker's popularity. [8]
Due to the timing of U.S. presidential elections, the final tables for the 2012 and 2016 Main Events were held in October. [3] [4] In 2017, Poker Central announced a television and digital media rights agreement with the WSOP and ESPN which returned the final table to the tail end of the rest of the tournament. [5]
The United States Poker Championship (USPC) was a major annual stop on the poker tournament tour. This event was held at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City , New Jersey . The series started in 1996, took one year off in 1997, and ran every year from 1998–2010.