- [TITLE CARDS]: In 1961, almost every home had a card table.
- [TITLE CARDS]: In 1991, almost every major casino had closed it's poker room.
- [TITLE CARDS]: In 2011, a reported 60 million people played poker every week in America.
- [TITLE CARDS]: As of 2011, there are nine poker shows on eight major networks
- [TITLE CARDS]: The NFL is on television twenty one weeks of the year.
- [TITLE CARDS]: Poker is on every week, everyday, all year, even on Christmas.
- [TITLE CARDS]: In the late 1990's the dot-com bubble burst, but not for poker.
- [TITLE CARDS]: Online poker revenues grew from $82.7 million in 2001 to 2.4 billion in 2005.
- [TITLE CARDS]: on the 2006 Fobes List of the Richest People In The World, Anurag Dikshit and Ruth Parasol, the founders of PartyPoker.com, ranked #207 and 197.
- [TITLE CARDS]: As of February 2012, Nevada, California, New York, New Jersey, and Iowa are among the states considering legalizing online poker.
- [TITLE CARDS]: On october 13, 2006, President George W. Bush signed into law the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, known as UIGEA, this has threatened to end the poker boom.
- [TITLE CARDS]: After wining the 2003 World Series of Poker, Chris Moneymaker appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, it was the first time in 35 years a professional pokwe player had made an appearance on network TV.
- [TITLE CARDS]: On December 23, 2011,the department of justice ruled that the Wire Act of 1961 does not apply to online poker.
- [TITLE CARDS]: and within three years of Moneymaker's win the 2003 World Series of Poker, 22 million people were playing poker online.