The four poker players at the original game are named after professional poker players Gus Hanson, Phil Ivey, Doyle (or his son Todd) Brunson, and Erick Lindgren.
First appearance of A.J. Buckley (Adam Ross). Buckley also appeared in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) episode Crow's Feet (2004) (#5.4) as "Ted Martin".
Heather McComb has appeared in ALL 4 shows of the CSI franchise:
- In CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), episode Spark of Life (2005) (#5.18) as "Annabelle Frost".
- In CSI: Miami (2002), episode A Horrible Mind (2002) (#1.10) as "Ginny Taylor".
- In CSI: NY (2004), episode Bad Beat (2005) (#2.8) as "Heather Davison"
- In CSI: Cyber (2015), episode The Evil Twin (2015) (#1.6) as "Elaine".
Sheldon Hawkes's (Hill Harper) dead local weather girl works on "Channel 8" which doesn't exist in the tri-state area. The network affiliates are channel 2 (CBS), channel 4 (NBC), 5 (FOX), channel 7 (ABC) and channel 13 (PBS). The only local channels are channel 9 (Secaucus, NJ) and channel 11.