Question of the Day - 04 November 2022

PokerGO is a five-year-old streaming service whose content, as the name indicates, focuses on poker, both tournaments and cash games. It's a prolific service, with thousands of discrete videos showing upwards of 10,000 hours of poker programming. It bills itself as "the largest subscription-based poker streaming service in the world."

We like Wiki's summary: "PokerGO has a wide collection of content that includes original programming and shows, tournament replays, and cash games. There is a mix of episodes, live streams, and recap videos, and events that were streamed live become on-demand videos afterward."

One of PokerGo's first, and certainly its biggest, rights deal was when it picked up the worldwide-television and digital-media rights to the World Series of Poker shortly after it was launched in 2017. But they also own the rights to the American television shows "High-Stakes Poker," which ran for five years (2006-2011), and "Poker After Dark" (2007-2011), along with the broadcast rights to the World Poker Tour, Aussie Millions, and Aria High Roller, among others. The U.S. Poker Open and Poker Masters are taped in the studio, which brings us to that part of the question.

The PokerGO Studio is, as far as we know, one of a kind. First, it's located at Aria, smack dab in the middle of center Strip. Second, it's a 10,000-square-foot state-of-the-art video-production facility that, as mentioned, cranks out an enormous amount of content, much of it original. Third, it's an actual poker room, with nine tables, plus a stage with a featured table. It also has a full-service bar and lounge, space for 80 spectators, and a layout that can be changed to host a variety of different events. 

As Negreanu said in the interview covered by our News item that inspired this question, anyone can play there -- as long as they can cover the buy-in, which tends to be high.