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Top Stories of 2022, #4: Cash Game Streams Exploding in Popularity

Tournaments are the format that usually garners the most attention from the poker community. People love watching fellow players battle it out for supremacy and become the last one standing, getting their hands on a massive cash prize and an all-important trophy. Notice how we said usually grabs the attention of the poker community? Streams of tournaments are still hugely popular, but cash game streams have exploded in popularity in 2022.

The televised High Stakes Poker, launched in 2006, gave viewers an insight into the private world of high-stakes poker rooms. Some of poker's biggest names, elite-level pros such as Doyle Brunson, Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, and Daniel Negreanu clashed in $300/$600 games that has a $100 ante, leading to some colossal pots.