Poker booms in pop culture

It's unbelievable how far popular culture has gone with the poker craze. It seems that everywhere I turn people are talking about it... and sometimes the results are just funny. I'm not really a big fan of CSI, but I ended up watching some of CSI: New York last night after a really great episode of LOST. (Ana Lucia kicks ass!)



In this CSI episode, four people are sitting in this apartment playing hold'em when one gets busted for double dealing. They throw him out and someone kills his partner (who is left behind) by shooting him through the peephole. Anyways... bad and stretching forensics ensue and Gary Sinise's character ends up analyzing the deck they played with and playing out the hands.



It was such an obvious attempt at just injecting some Texas Hold'em into a popular show for the sake of roping in the new addicts to the game. I suppose this isn't all bad... it's just sort of embarrasing.