[Movie] High Stakes Poker on GSN

I find myself bored immensely when watching poker on TV. The mechanics of the game itself are boring - and I say that as someone who enjoys playing it. See, where the enjoyment in playing it lies for me is the risk element, the sense of danger, and the excitement attached with winning money. You don't get this conveyed with TV poker because they're all high-flyers only playing in front of cameras for ego and glamour. They're already millionaires, nothing to lose. Their annoying daddy cool personalities certainly don't make up for the lost interest.

What we need is a TV poker show where the participants are seriously desperate. So you'd have family men in crumpled, sweaty shirts and displaced ties playing beyond their means, fighting to pay off massive loans and save their houses being reposessed; petty drug dealers playing to save their legs being broken by gang heavies; and sometimes maybe the odd tramp reeking of alcohol who managed to find or pickpocket the $20 tournament buy-in that evening.

Jam it back in, in the dark.