joepro
Flush
This is an awesome "behind the scenes" podcast about how ESPN's coverage of the Chris Moneymaker WSOP came about, and was a major factor in creating the poker boom. I did not realize that this was the first year of the production as it is still today. They hit the jackpot with the Moneymaker win, between that and the infancy of online poker, his win was really a perfect storm. One funny spoiler is that the producers of the show were initially upset that no "famous poker players" made the final table, not realizing at the time that almost nobody in America knew or cared who these guys were.
http://www.espn.com/poker/story/_/i...03-world-series-poker-main-event?platform=amp
http://www.espn.com/poker/story/_/i...03-world-series-poker-main-event?platform=amp