Poker may prove to be a winner beyond the million-dollar Las Vegas tournament games seen on television.

Retailers, hoping to cash in on the popularity of the rich-pot games on TV, are stocking up on tables, chips and other poker gear. Casinos and card clubs are making room for poker tables while more tournaments show up on TV.

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Bob Stevenson, manager of All-American Recreation in Bloomington, Minn., says he sells five to six poker tables per week at $299 and up with deluxe chip sets at $129.

"Two years ago, we wouldn't have sold a one," Stevenson told the Star-Tribune. "People wouldn't have been interested at all."

At a Minneapolis-area racetrack, card games now bring in more revenue than horseracing, with poker income up 50 percent from a year ago.

"There's a little bit of an awkward feeling to the card club being more than half of our revenue and driving the growth of the company," says Canterbury Racetrack and Card Club president Randy Sampson. "But in the end, they work well together."

Source: The Washington Times