The action was hot and heavy as one and a half
million dollars was riding on games that began at
four o'clock. With about five hundred people
watching, they call it the fastest growing sport
in the country.
The World Poker Tour started from scratch
three years ago and has caught on fast. Thanks to
a ton of exposure on cable channels, poker is
really catching. The one at Foxwoods on Wednesday
was also videotaped for the Travel Channel.
"One reason it's so popular, when people
watch at home they can relate. None of us can hit
the ball out of the park or get a slam dunk, but
we feel we can do this, there are amateurs at
every table", says Lyle Berman of the World Poker
Tour.
Six hundred seventy-four people paid ten
thousand dollars each to get into the tournament
at Foxwoods. The games have been going on since
Saturday.
