Televised poker tournaments used to be "as exciting as watching paint dry, " admits World Poker Tour producer Steven Lipscomb.

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So last year Lipscomb added a little reality-TV pizzazz to a Vegas poker match, wiring the tournament with 17 cameras and flashing on-screen personal factoids about players.

FORBES: Poker TV gets some high stakes.

First came Steven Lipscomb, president of Los Angeles-based WPT Enterprises.

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