The television is God.  That may be a statement that makes many people uncomfortable, but it is an issue that must be seriously contemplated in American society.  In terms of gambling the saying has certainly proven itself to be true.  Television and movies have done more for gambling in recent years than any single legislation.

At the moment poker is more popular than it has ever been since it was invented on the riverboats of the Mississippi.  The reason from that is the invention of the ‘hole cam.’  This invention, debuted by the World Poker Tour, allowed poker to become a spectator sport.  Once poker made itself into a successful form of television entertainment, people of all types crawled out of the wood work to try their hand at the card game.  Most of them found out that things always look easier when professionals are at the wheel.

Blackjack has enjoyed similar bursts of popularity whenever anything about card counting hits the mainstream.  Not to long ago a Kevin Spacey film about card counting college students and how they milked Vegas for all it was worth sparked a blackjack craze.  Once again the ambitious learned the hard way.  Card counting is not a surefire winning technique, it only gives a player some advantage.

That may be exactly what online casinos need either a movie or television show that glamorizes it in some way.  Not many details have been released about the new Leonardo DiCaprio movie to be produced on the subject of online casinos.  But maybe it will give the industry the publicity it needs.