An NFL player is busted for betting on his team, a poker-themed cartoon, and record-breaking crowds in Prague are some of the short stacks CardsChat collected in last week’s orbit of the poker world.

“High Card,” a poker-themed Japanese anime show, is coming to small screens 2023. (Image: TMS Entertainment)
Fans of poker who also love Japanese anime are in luck. A poker-themed franchise called “High Card” is being developed and the YouTube teaser was released today.
According to animenewsnetwork.com, the show is based on a world order that “can be controlled by a set of 52 X-Playing cards with the power to bestow different superhuman powers and abilities to the ones that possess them. With these cards, people can access the hidden power of the ‘buddy’ that can be found within themselves.”
All righty, then.
Regardless, the art…