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Poker Central
Poker Central is a website and service which focuses on poker news, events, live streaming and hosting poker content. It operates PokerGO an online paid subscription channel and streaming service which features multiple poker shows, cash games and tournaments. History Poker Central was founded by poker player and entrepreneur, Cary Katz. He founded and is part owner of Conservative Review TV (CRTV) which is part owner of Poker Central. Other part owners and investors include Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth and Antonio Esfandiari. The website and service was launched on October 1, 2015. In 2018, Katz sued CRTV, which he is part owner, for alleged failures to repay a $20 million loan Katz had given the company earlier. In May of that year, Poker Central opened the PokerGO Studio at the ARIA Resort and Casino. This poker studio is a 10,000 square-foot space built to host live poker events distributed on the poker streaming service, PokerGO. Notable poker tournaments and cash games hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Streaming
Livestreaming is streaming media simultaneously recorded and broadcast in real-time over the internet. It is often referred to simply as streaming. Non-live media such as video-on-demand, vlogs, and YouTube videos are technically streamed, but not live-streamed. Livestream services encompass a wide variety of topics, from social media to video games to professional sports. Platforms such as Facebook Live, Periscope, Kuaishou, Douyu, bilibili and 17 include the streaming of scheduled promotions and celebrity events as well as streaming between users, as in videotelephony. Sites such as Twitch have become popular outlets for watching people play video games, such as in esports, Let's Play-style gaming, or speedrunning. Live coverage of sporting events is a common application. User interaction via chat rooms forms a major component of livestreaming. Platforms often include the ability to talk to the broadcaster or participate in conversations in chat. Many chat rooms also consist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Hosting
An online video platform (OVP), provided by a video hosting service, enables users to upload, convert, store and play back video content on the Internet, often via a structured, large-scale system that may generate revenue. Users will generally upload video content via the hosting service's website, mobile or desktop application, or other interfaces (API). An example of an OVP is YouTube. The type of video content uploaded might be anything from shorts to full-length TV shows and movies. The video host stores the video on its server and offers users the ability to enable different types of embed codes or links that allow others to view the video content. The website, mainly used as the video hosting website, is usually called the video-sharing website. Purpose of video hosts (for users) * Save on bandwidth and hosting costs often eliminating costs entirely; * Creating a common place to share and view video content; * Making a user friendly experience, where uploading a video and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cary Katz
Cary Steven Katz (born January 29, 1970) is an American businessman and poker player. Career Katz graduated from University of Georgia with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. In 1999, he founded the College Loan Corporation, where he was CEO for 15 years. The company was the seventh largest student loan company in the United States providing $19 billion in loans. Katz started the conservative media website CRTV in 2014. In October 2015, Katz founded the website Poker Central which launched subscription-based streaming service PokerGO. Katz also created high roller tournaments including Super High Roller Bowl, Poker Masters, and the U.S. Poker Open. Katz has also been accredited with inventing the big blind ante, which is now the preferred option in poker tournament structures worldwide. He currently serves as president of the St. Gabriel Catholic School and as chairman of the non-profit organization Stop Child Predators. Katz is married to Jackie Katz and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PokerGO
PokerGO is an over-the-top content platform based in Las Vegas, Nevada. PokerGO was launched in 2017 as a subscription-based streaming service offering poker centric online streaming. The content offered on PokerGO includes poker tournaments, along with cash game-orientated shows. As of February 2021, PokerGO's library of content includes over 2,400 videos totaling over 3,800 continuous hours. Content The content of PokerGO includes shows, tournament replays, and cash games. Other media includes episodes, live streams, and recap videos, and events that were streamed live become on-demand videos afterward. Poker tournaments and cash games High Stakes Poker High Stakes Poker is a cash game poker television program that sees a mix of professional and amateur poker players playing high stakes No-Limit Hold’em with buy-ins ranging from $100,000 to $500,000. The show debuted in January 2006 and ran for seven seasons until May 2011. In February 2020, PokerGO announced th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu (; born July 26, 1974) is a Canadian professional poker player who has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles. In 2014, independent poker ranking service Global Poker Index recognized Negreanu as the best poker player of the decade. As of 2019, he is the third-biggest live tournament poker winner of all time (behind Justin Bonomo and Bryn Kenney, both of whom have won a special multimillion-dollar charity tournament), having won over $42,000,000 in prize money. He was named the WSOP Player of the Year in 2004 and 2013, making him the only player to receive the accolade more than once. He was also the 2004–2005 WPT Player of the Year. He is the first player to make a final table at each of the three WSOP bracelet-awarding locations (Las Vegas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific), and the first to win a bracelet at each. In 2014, he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Early life Negreanu was born in Toront ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Hellmuth
Phillip Jerome Hellmuth Jr. (born July 16, 1964) is an American professional poker player who has won a record sixteen World Series of Poker bracelets. He is the winner of the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the Main Event of the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), and he is a 2007 inductee of the WSOP's Poker Hall of Fame. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest tournament players of all time. Personal life Hellmuth was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and attended Madison West High School. He had trouble with grades and friends during school and said at the time he was the "ugly duckling" of his family. He then moved on to the University of Wisconsin–Madison for three years, where he dropped out to become a full-time poker player. Since 1992, he has lived in Palo Alto, California, with his wife, Katherine Sanborn, who is a psychiatrist at Stanford University, and their two sons, Phillip III and Nicholas. Poker career He is ranked 19th on the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari ( fa, امیر اسفندیاری; born December 8, 1978 as Amir Esfandiary), is a professional poker player and former professional magician, known for his elaborate chip tricks. Esfandiari was the face of the now-defunct poker site, UltimatePoker.com. In addition to appearing on several poker television shows, he has won two World Poker Tour (WPT) championships and three World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets in his career, including the "Big One for One Drop" in 2012, a $1,000,000 buy-in tournament benefiting the One Drop Foundation. By winning the event, Esfandiari won the second largest single payout in tournament poker history at $18,346,673. Esfandiari was ranked number one for all-time tournament poker winnings, until Daniel Negreanu took this title by finishing 2nd in the " Big One For One Drop 2014". In 2012, he authored ''The Magician's Secrets for Winning Tournaments'' on Insta Poker, a poker strategy game available for iOS. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super High Roller Bowl
The Super High Roller Bowl is a recurring high stakes No-Limit Hold'em poker tournament that takes place at venues across the world. The first edition of the event was held in July 2015 and featured a $500,000 buy-in, drawing a field of 43 players. Brian Rast won the inaugural tournament, earning $7,525,000. For its second year, the tournament was moved to May and the buy-in was lowered to $300,000. Entries increased to 49 and Rainer Kempe captured the first prize of $5,000,000. The third year would attract 56 entrants as Christoph Vogelsang defeated Jake Schindler to win the $6,000,000 first-place prize, and ensure back-to-back titles for Germany. There would be three Super High Roller Bowls held during 2018, and in March, the first international stop of the series would take in place at the Babylon Casino in Macau, China. Justin Bonomo defeated Patrik Antonius and the 75-entrant field to win the HK$37,830,000 (~$4,823,077) first-place prize. In May, 48-entrants would play Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poker After Dark
''Poker After Dark'' is an hour-long poker television program that originally aired on NBC, premiering on January 1, 2007. NBC Announces New ''Poker After Dark'' series from the Media Village website The series was canceled on December 3, 2011, following the "Black Friday" criminal case, which involved major sponsor as one of the defendants. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Stakes Poker
''High Stakes Poker'' is an American cash game poker television program. The poker variant played on the show is no limit Texas hold 'em. The first four seasons ran from January 16, 2006 to December 17, 2007 on GSN. The next three seasons ran from March 1, 2009 to May 21, 2011, and was simulcast in 3DTV on N3D. The show was revived on December 16, 2020 on PokerGO. The show was hosted by A. J. Benza in the first five seasons, alongside Gabe Kaplan. In the sixth season, Kara Scott replaced Benza as Kaplan's co-host, with Scott conducting interviews from the poker room floor. In the seventh season, Norm Macdonald replaced Kaplan as Scott's co-host. Beginning with the eighth season, Benza and Kaplan returned as hosts. History The first season of ''High Stakes Poker'', taped at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, was first broadcast on January 16, 2006, at 9:00 p.m., and consisted of 13 episodes until April 10, 2006, hosted by A. J. Benza and comedian/actor-turned-poker pro Gabe Kapl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NBC Sports
NBC Sports is an American programming division of the broadcast network NBC, owned and operated by NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal and subsidiary of Comcast. The division is responsible for sports broadcasts on the network, and its dedicated national sports cable channels. Formerly operating as "a service of NBC News", it broadcasts a diverse array of sports events, including Major League Baseball, the French Open, the Premier League, the IndyCar Series, NASCAR, the National Football League (NFL), Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, Notre Dame Fighting Irish college football, the Olympic Games, professional golf,the Tour de France and Thoroughbred racing, among others. Other programming from outside producers – such as coverage of the Ironman Triathlon – is also presented on the network through NBC Sports. With Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal in 2011, its own cable sports networks were aligned with NBC Sports into a part of the division known as the NBC Spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment Companies Established In 2015
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention. Although people's attention is held by different things because individuals have different preferences, most forms of entertainment are recognisable and familiar. Storytelling, music, drama, dance, and different kinds of performance exist in all cultures and were supported in royal courts and developed into sophisticated forms, over time becoming available to all citizens. The process has been accelerated in modern times by an entertainment industry that records and sells entertainment products. Entertainment evolves and can be adapted to suit any scale, ranging from an individual who chooses a private entertainment from a now enormous array of pre-recorded pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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