Have there been any new TV "household name" poker celebrities since 2008 era?

pepel don't quite understand big the poker boom of 2004 really was

i would equate it to fortnite its first year or two but if ure not agamer you wouldn't undestand either

its like pokemon back in the 90s but if youre a younger player you wouldnt get it either but you do get the fortnite comaprison

Moneymaker's public MTT results were quite atrocious in the immediate 10-15 years after he won the WSOP. I don't know if he gets enough stick for that considering he was presumably freerolling on a big PokerStars sponsorship for much of that time. He seemed to be closer to a Jamie Gold fluke type of champion than a strong winner. Gold and Moneymaker had the same number of six-figure scores in public MTTs in the 00s + 10s combined (three each).

It's only in recent years that he has begun to rack up some other impressive scores. But you can look at his results and certainly see why he wouldn't have been hot product in 2010. At the time, he hadn't done anything notable in years. Maybe he was getting paid enough by PS that he didn't care at all to grind tournaments.

Whatever the reason, he was as close to a "one hit wonder" as you could find near the top of the poker fame pyramid for most of the 00s and 10s.

It's a really good hit though. The 2003 WSOP is still one of the most iconic tournament wins in poker history. Probably #1.

Great and way more people still know who PH is. Meanwhile newspapers are dead just bc someone reads an article of hers doesn't mean they would recognize her walking down the street.

Exactly.poker was everywhere. Bars parties etc everyone was playing.

What borg said, it was everywhere. All the big box stores to the tiny little corner shops was trying to sell you poker stuff. It was hard to miss.

and somewhere in an NBC vault this exists. A sitcom pilot shot and filmed of Janeane Garofalo as Annie Duke. https://web.archive.org/web/200511101542...

Right now Poker is in the 113th position for streamed view this Monday night on Twitch fighting "Fast Food Simulator" for the 112th spot. If today a general poll on ESPN or somewhere had a poker fan vote, Annie Duke would somehow make the top 20.

The only players who would get an ESPN crawl mention if they died in their sleep tonight are Moneymaker, Chan & Hellmuth, possibly Ivey. Raymer would still be iconic had he gone BTB, and Foxen would’ve gone mainstream viral had she won, and lawdy, lawdy, we’re all poorer for neither of those things happening, especially the latter.

But mainstream and household name are as obsolete as PE teachers today.

I'd have thought Dan Bilzerian would be the biggest household name in the last 15 years. Although I guess he's not really a TV player or classed as a pro.

If I was to ask non-poker players if they could name a poker player he's way more likely to get mentioned than Ivey, Moneymaker etc.

Correct. Instagram attention whore, (former) billionaire criminals get more attention than poker professionals.

It might be that more people recognize Hellmuth today than recognize Duke, but that's just because Hellmuth today is still very active in poker and Duke is not. (Though I'm really not sure about that.)

But Duke definitely achieved a level of household name recognition outside of poker during her run on The Apprentice far greater than anything Hellmuth has achieved at any point.

Probably why Trump fired her, lol. She also won the first TOC, which was a big deal at the time.

I only remember her back tattoo

On her most popular day ever she wasn't as well known as Helmuth.

That season was averaging 7.4 million people a show, with 9.3 for the finale. ESPN peak episodes during the boom got around 2+ million eyes.

two year period

She makes it if there was a general voting poll ran by ESPN if they did another 20 person freeroll. Assuming she doesn't want to get **** on for being a trash person by the players playing in it. Poker is so far from the mainstream eye that DN has started to move away from it and devoted his time trying to latch onto the Joe Rogan grift.

I've met people outside poker who know about really popular players from the 2008 era and prior (Ivey, Negreanu, Hellmuth, Brunson, Moneymaker, Tom Dwan, etc.), but even then, calling those names a "household name" is being generous.

I doubt that anyone in most households can name a single "famous" poker player.

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just like poker players!

For at least four years after the first 2003 WSOP broadcast there was poker on TV 24 hours a day.

Try actually reading the article.
It was about probabilistic decision making

Trooper??

You can thank the NHL Hockey lockout for part of that, also the 03-05 WSOP and all the side events were on all day and all night on ESPN Classic. Once in awhile you got bowling.

Gman and he only became bigger after the Robbie debacle

nobody that isn't really into poker has any clue who Garrett is.

the answer to the OP is no.

Just can't get there with Annie Duke. Wouldn't even have put her in top ten during her peak. Sure , being on The Apprentice and making a nice run there in front of millions of viewers is a pretty big deal. But she was just a contestant after all, one of many over many seasons. So while loads of people have "seen" her. I doubt many know who she is or remember her other then poker fans these days.

Best resume, she would be near the top.

She might not have even cracked the top 25.

I agree that there is not even one poker player who was a household name