The jokes about “Beyond Thunderdome” are inevitable, but Fox Sports Net is dead serious about their recent announcement. In a joint effort with Mansionpoker.net, FSN will create a brick and mortar coliseum where the modern gladiators known as poker pros will compete in a high-tech environment for the entertainment of the masses. This new, first of its kind structure will be called the Pokerdome.
In the Pokerdome players will sit at a table surrounded by one-way mirrors, allowing a studio audience as well as the cameras to watch them unseen, catching them “au natural” as it were. Even the playing cards are high-tech, embedded with computer chips so that their value will be read and accurate reporting can be done regardless of how well the players share their view with the famous “lipstick” table cameras. In addition with the old favorites like No Limit Texas Hold’em there will be Speed Poker, where players only have fifteen seconds to make a decision.
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