In the last entry, I discussed the best poker TV personalities. This entry will focus on the worst. It’s worth noting that someone with a bad poker TV personality is probably making more endorsement money than someone with no poker TV personality, so while I’m ripping on these guys, I’d also trade places with them in a heartbeat in regards to the amount of exposure they get:

Howard Lederer: Can you say “yawn”? ‘The Professor’ is about as boring of a poker TV regular as it gets. His personality is like that of, well, a boring professor, so maybe that’s a good nickname for him.

Annie Duke: Lederer’s kid sister takes after her brother in regards to how interesting she is to watch on TV. Annie Duke scored points for her runner-up finish on ‘The Apprentice’, but she’s still painfully boring to watch on poker programming. Annoying, pretentious, entitled, and worst of all, not that attractive, Annie Duke makes me change the channel faster than a commercial break.

Peter Eastgate: I like Peter Eastgate. I really do. But the 2008 Main Event champion simply doesn’t make for very exciting TV. The young Dane’s English is not so great, so he mostly keeps to himself at the table. Following his Main Event win, he actually rejected all offers to appear on talk shows like Jay Leno. While it’s understandable that he doesn’t want to embarrass himself over language-barrier issues, it’s kind of a shame he couldn’t have appeared on a couple of shows for the sake of poker.

Allen Cunningham: Like Eastgate, I really like Cunningham. He’s a very likable guy. But he’s just too soft-spoken to make for entertaining TV. It’s a shame, too. There aren’t more than a small handful of players in the world better than Cunningham.