A few people in the card table with whom Booth were playing cards also appeared as card players in an episode of The Mentalist (2004).
Jeremy Ratchford (ATM) played one of the Gorch brothers, Lyle Gorch, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) alongside David Boreanaz. James Parks, who played Lyle Gorch's brother Tector was also in an episode of Bones in season 1, "The Skull in the Desert" as Sheriff Dawes.
In the second card game that Booth plays, there is a hand where the hole cards Booth has and the cards that end up on the table are the exact same cards that Mike McDemott (Matt Damon) has in the final hand of the movie "Rounders".
Seth Petersen played a recurring character on the series Burn Notice as a compulsive gambler.