Last Thursday (21), Canadian Kevin Martin launched “Poker Wars.” This is the poker player’s new project and mixes the mind sport with “reality show” dynamics. The show was broadcast on his YouTube and Twitch channels and featured six participants competing for a CAD$ 50,000 prize.
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Thus, the show will be aired daily until next Sunday (24), always at 6 p.m. (Brasília time). According to Martin, the program will be much more than a poker game. “I wanted to create a show where players needed to play poker, but also deal with alliances and the opponents themselves”, said Kevin.
In addition, the show’s participants were introduced to the public in the first episode. Jon Pardy, Abby Merk, Jake Straus, Haven Taylor, Hesham Elkhouly, and Ali Kebritchi will compete for the prize promised by the popular streamer. The dynamics apparently all take place at a poker table.
However, one of the program’s differentiators is the integration between live and online poker. The audience influences the show by interacting with the participants through virtual tournaments held simultaneously with the program. In this way, the “reality show” aims to further enhance the connection between viewers and participants.
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Kevin Martin has experience in “reality shows”
Thus, the Canadian player is an experienced “reality show” participant. He even won the 5th edition of “Big Brother Canada.” The achievement happened in 2017 and earned a prize of CAD$ 100,000, an amount equivalent to about US$ 74,000 at the time.
However, it was not only in the most well-known format of this type of program that the Canadian player participated. He also joined productions such as “The Amazing Race” and “The Traitors”. In addition, Kevin Martin was featured in “Game of Gold”, a show involving professional poker players.
Finally, it is worth noting that the player’s new project is highly anticipated due to some differentiators. “This is the kind of game I would love to compete in personally. There is nothing like it in poker currently, so we decided to build it from scratch”, commented Kevin Martin, stating that this is a true “dream project” for him.
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