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Game Shows based on playing cards
wdm1219inpenna:
--- Quote from: rjaguar3 on December 14, 2024, 07:47:41 PM ---In practice most card games that are not gambling games are difficult to impossible to adapt for TV game shows because hidden information (the cards a player is holding) is essential to meaningfully playing the game, and it's difficult to convey this to a TV audience. So this basically leaves gambling-style games.
/Wonder if Championship Bridge with Charles Goren would count for our list.
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I would indeed include that as it was a show about a game involving card playing, and they made the home viewer aware of who had which cards. Good obscure one there! I actually watched a few youtube vids of this series a while ago.
Kevin Prather:
--- Quote from: wdm1219inpenna on December 14, 2024, 08:14:49 PM ---
--- Quote from: rjaguar3 on December 14, 2024, 07:47:41 PM ---In practice most card games that are not gambling games are difficult to impossible to adapt for TV game shows because hidden information (the cards a player is holding) is essential to meaningfully playing the game, and it's difficult to convey this to a TV audience. So this basically leaves gambling-style games.
/Wonder if Championship Bridge with Charles Goren would count for our list.
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I would indeed include that as it was a show about a game involving card playing, and they made the home viewer aware of who had which cards. Good obscure one there! I actually watched a few youtube vids of this series a while ago.
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I also was introduced to this through YouTube about a year ago. I likened it to "World Series of Poker" or "World Poker Tour" of the 1950s.
Otm Shank:
I really got a kick out of the Celebrity Poker Showdown that ran a few seasons on Bravo, sort of bucking the trend that the celebrity format kills the game show.
I'd count it as more of a game show compared to other televised poker, because it was produced as engaging television featuring poker, as opposed to passively observing people playing cards. It had more the air of poker-night poker (albeit with famous people) which was pretty entertaining.
Flerbert419:
King of Vegas (Spike TV, 2006)
TLEberle:
Twenty years ago the Western Washington CBS affiliate ran a shorts series titled Tulalip Casino Night, hosted by sports reporter "Right" Gaard Swanson. Pairs of friends, relatives and the like competed in an Amazing Race-style elimination contest with the chance at a million dollars at the end.
https://www.heraldnet.com/life/tulalips-gamble-on-casino-reality-show/
I thought it was ok not great, and was re-upped in a celebrity format, but is the world really clamoring to watch people run around playing slots and roulette?
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