“2 Months, $2 Million” was one of the poker shows that jumped on the bandwagon of trying to emulate the success of long-standing programs like Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker. Unfortunately for 2 Months, $2 Million, that success never came since the show will not be renewed by G4 for a second season.
The premise of this poker show was that 4 online pros were living in a fancy Las Vegas house while trying to accomplish the tough feat of making $2 million in just two months of online poker. In addition to the whole money making aspect, the trials and tribulations of the players was also an element to the show. The players involved were Brian Roberts, Dani Stern, Emil Patel, and Jay Rosenkrantz.
Rosenkrantz was of particular interest since every major heads-up challenge saw him taking on some a poker pro. In one episode, Rosenkrantz was pitted against David Benyamine in a heads-up battle that saw him lose over $60,000. But Rosenkrantz redeemed himself in an online heads-up match against David “Viffer” Peat where he took Peat for over $351,000 after discovering a cyber tell. Unfortunately for Rosenkrantz, he couldn’t redeem the whole four person team as they fell short of the $2 million in 2 month goal.
By the end of the 2 months the team earned a solid $676,000 total, which would definitely satisfy plenty of four-person online teams out there. However, in the spirit of this challenge the money wasn’t quite enough to make ends meet. And the ratings weren’t high enough to give the group a second chance at their goal since G4 made it clear that the show is done. 2 Months, $2 Million ended up lasting for 10, half hour episodes.
Though not nearly as big as its World Poker Tour counterpart, the Canadian Poker Tour is still trying to make strides with each passing day. In the midst of making these strides, the CPT has decided to sign poker hottie Lacey Jones to be the new face of its organization. Jones has been a model, major poker personality, and even a player in the past so she could definitely help the CPT out a lot.
The city of Baltimore, Maryland is getting Senate and Mayoral support for poker tables in their slots casinos.
The ninth annual European Poker Awards turned out to be a very special occasion for Vitaly Lunkin since he won the 2009 European Poker Player of the Year award. The Russian player now joins previous winners such as Marcel Luske (2001, 2004), Garry Bush (2002), Dave Colclough (2003), Rob Hollink (2005), Roland De Wolfe (2006), Alexander Kravchenko (2007), and Bertrand Grospellier (2008).
Towards the end of 2008, it seemed like all we heard about was US swimmer Michael Phelp’s foray into the poker world. Phelps was playing cash games and tournaments in Las Vegas, hanging out with poker greats like Doyle Brunson, and teasing multiple poker rooms into thinking he would sign with them. Then Phelps went back into preparation for the World Championships of swimming and has yet to be heard from as far as poker goes.
High Stakes Poker is making its highly anticipated return for its sixth season on the Game Show Network (GSN) this Valentine’s Day, Sunday the 14th. Once you get sick of watching Marley and Me over wine, role-play by changing the channel over to GSN at 8 p.m. ET for the greatest action in televised poker. Strengthen your bonds of affection while you spoon to people (who aren’t you) losing thousands of dollars from their $200,000 minimum buy-ins, then seal the deal by reraising all-in with some heavy petting.
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Winning a World Series of Poker bracelet is one of the biggest achievements that a poker player can earn during their career. And pro poker player T.J. Cloutier has been lucky enough to win 6 of them during his career. However, he is only holding five of them after an unidentified person bought one of the bracelets off of Cloutier recently.
