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Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.
One of the most popular shows from the initial TV poker boom, the World Poker Tour, was slated to move from the Travel Channel to GSN on March 24, 2008.
* Joker Poker ( 2005 ) – Channel Ten
In 2000 he won TV ’ s first Celebrity Late Night Poker on Channel 4, beating Al Alvarez, Martin Amis, Victoria Coren, Ricky Gervais, Patrick Marber and Stephen Fry.
The 10th series of Late Night Poker is currently airing on Channel 4.
Channel 4 commissioned the series and Late Night Poker was born.
* Bravo Channel ( 2005 ) Celebrity Poker Showdown Profile Retrieved April 18, 2005
In sports television, Murray has also presented coverage of late-night American Football and the European Poker Tour for Channel 5.
* Poker Channel ( English audio only )
The Poker Channel is a dedicated gaming TV network and broadcasts to over 30 million TV homes in 30 countries.
The Poker Channel was launched in the UK in March 2005 and broadcasts poker programming including major tournaments such as the World Series of Poker, instructional series, online events, documentaries, news and player profiles.
The Poker Channel was formed in 2005 by Crispin Nieboer, ex Commercial Manager at British Sky Broadcasting, and James Hopkins, Sky Sports ’ producer of rugby and poker.
In an attempt to regain viewing figures The Poker Channel rebranded itself as All In Sport in August 2006.
On 1 March 2007, to capitalise on the popularity of poker in Europe, The Poker Channel launched as a free-to-air channel on cable platforms in France ( Free and Numericable ) and Germany ( Kabel BW ), and in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark on DTH satellite platform, Canal Digital.
Later that year, The Poker Channel started a long-term partnership with Sky Channel 166 ( Info TV Ltd ) to broadcast poker programming in a late evening slot – which continues today, where the Poker Channel broadcasts between 9. 30pm and 4am.
In late 2007, The Poker Channel increased distribution in Germany ( Kabel Deutschland and Unity Media ) and launched with cable platforms in Belgium ( BeTV and Coditel ), Luxembourg ( Coditel ), Iceland ( Skjarinn ), Malta ( Melita Cable ) and Spain ( Imagenio ).
In September 2008 The Poker Channel re-launched their web site, PokerChannelEurope. com, in partnership with online video platform Brightcove.
The Poker Channel recruited Paul Sandells in July 2008, former UK. PokerNews. com editor, as Editor in Chief of the site.
In 2009 and 2010 the Poker Channel continued to expand its availability in Europe, including launches on all cable platforms in Portugal ( Zon, Meo, Cabovisao ); Neufbox ( SFR ) in France ; Austria Telekom, Vectra and UPC in Poland, and making the channel available to all subscribers of Focussat, DigiTV and UPC Direct in Eastern Europe in Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia.

Poker and broadcasts
The World Poker Tour broadcasts a series of open tournaments throughout the U. S. and Caribbean with buy-ins from $ 5, 000 to $ 25, 000, as well as a European event with a € 10, 000 buy-in.
Since 2003, Chad has appeared on most of ESPN's poker broadcasts, including the World Series of Poker and The United States Poker Championship, among other events.

Poker and range
* Poker Flat Research Range is owned by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is the largest range in the world.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks ( UAF ) is home to the noted Geophysical Institute, which operates the Poker Flat Research Range presently the only collegiate rocket test range in the U. S. ( The California Institute of Technology and other colleges formerly had them.
This complement of transportable systems can be deployed to provide complete range capabilities at remote locations around the world. While Wallops Island is the prime location for range services, major sounding rocket campaigns have been supported at Poker Flat, Alaska ; Andoya, Norway ; and Kwajalein Island, Marshall Islands.
The Poker Flat Research Range ( PFRR ) is a launch facility and rocket range for sounding rockets in the U. S. state of Alaska, owned and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks ( UAF ) Geophysical Institute since 1968.

Poker and poker
* Amateur Poker League, a U. S. based amateur poker league that feeds into the World Poker Tour
Ladbrokes Poker also operates a loyalty program for its online poker players where players are able to exchange their poker points for gift & prizes.
Later in the 1970s, the first serious poker strategy books appeared, notably Super / System by Doyle Brunson ( ISBN 1-58042-081-8 ) and Caro's Book of Poker Tells by Mike Caro ( ISBN 0-89746-100-2 ), followed later by The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky ( ISBN 1-880685-00-0 ).
Following the surge in popularity, new poker tours soon emerged, notably the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour, both televised and the latter sponsored by online poker company PokerStars.
In 2009 the International Federation of Poker was founded in Lausanne, Switzerland, becoming the official governing body for poker and promoting the game as a mind sport.
Five-O Poker is a heads-up poker variant in which both players must play five hands of five cards simultaneously.
* Poker chips: Currency is difficult to stack or handle, so most poker games are played with chips, or coin-shaped tokens of uniform size and weight, usually 39mm wide and anywhere from 5 to 16 grams in weight, whose money value is determined by their color.
* Poker table: A typical poker game will have between two and ten players.
Poker games with a rollout phase resemble stud poker but have significantly different strategies, because players generally receive all of their cards up front ( sometimes with a draw phase ), and know the final value of their hand in early betting rounds.
In the original Omaha poker game, players were only dealt two hole cards and had to use both to make a hand combined with community cards .< ref name =" Super System "> Doyle Brunson, < cite > Super System: A course in Power Poker </ cite >, Cardoza Publishing ( 1978 ), ISBN 1-58042-081-8 This version of Omaha is defined in the glossary of Super / System ( under Omaha ) as being interchangeable with " Tight Holdem ".
* Poker Face Paul, a Game Gear video game that comes in blackjack and poker versions
Elizabeth played in the Main Event of the 2005 World Series of Poker under the guidance of Daniel Negreanu, and won a special tournament celebrating the opening of a new poker room at Caesars Palace hotel in January 2006, beating out 83 celebrities and poker professionals to win $ 55, 000.
In 2007, she advanced to the semi-finals of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship in a field consisting of the top poker professionals before losing to eventual champion Paul Wasicka.
The World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) is a series of poker tournaments held annually in Las Vegas and, since 2005, sponsored by Caesars Entertainment ( known as Harrah's Entertainment until 2010 ).
At the 2006 World Series of Poker, there were 45 events, covering the majority of poker variants.
The set of tournaments that the World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) would evolve into was the brainchild of Las Vegas casino owner and poker player Benny Binion.
Morris Chestnut is also an avid poker player and has sponsorship arrangement with online poker room Full Tilt Poker.

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