The cast of the G4 online poker reality series “2 Months, $2 Million” officially pulled in $676,700 for the 10-week premiere season, over $1.3 million short of its stated goal. No word has come down from G4 as to whether the crew will be back for Season 2.
The season finale began with just three days remaining and the four former math whizzes up $615,900. Emil Patel took on “jiacstrap” on PokerStars, immediately winning pots off his foe to go up $18,750. A storm was brewing online and, outside, torrential rains and lightning in Las Vegas caused the power to go out. Once the power and internet and come back on, Patel’s computer froze. He lamented, “This blackout is going to cost me $50,000.”
At the Palms pool, the quartet plotted an end-of-summer bash. Dani Stern candidly explained the basic necessities for a successful evening: “We need food, we need liquor, and we need girls.” Brian Roberts and Patel implored their live-in chef, a former musician, to take to the stage as the evening’s entertainment. Roberts explained, “He’s an ex-recording artist. He doesn’t talk about it much. I guess he’s a humble guy.” A montage of images from “Chef” in his music days then appeared on-screen and he agreed to perform.
Stern faced off against “CADX2” online, while Roberts took on “LarsLuzak.” Stern piled up win after win, while Roberts suffered loss after loss. Pots shown included the “2 Months, $2 Million” cast member losing with 10-Q against 4-3 for $34,000, 2-5 versus 4-5 for $6,000, K-2 versus A-8 for $4,000, and A-9 versus pocket fours for $5,600. All told, Roberts had burned $93,000. Stern, meanwhile, finished with a $100,000 stack, up $71,000 on the session. Upon writing his sum on the team’s tally board, he told “2 Months, $2 Million” cameras, “It felt good just to put a huge number on the board.”
As a reward for his $71,000 session, Stern purchased a $2,000 pair of Nike shoes featuring anaconda skin and 14 karat gold inlays. He had a chance to show off his new kicks at the group’s party, which featured a “2 Months, $2 Million” themed song from Chef and Patel showing off the house to the single women in attendance. After hearing that Patel gave a tour of the house’s attic, Roberts quipped, “I didn’t even know there was an attic. That’s thorough.”
When the totals for the week were tabulated, Stern was up $101,000, Roberts was down $75,000, Patel was up $34,800, and Jay Rosenkrantz was even. All told, the “2 Months, $2 Million” cast was up $60,800 in its final days and $676,700 overall. Despite falling well short of the stated goal, Rosenkrantz optimistically noted, “It’s still a respectable total.” For the summer, Rosenkrantz was the group’s big winner, up $406,500. Roberts earned $7,500 over the nine-week period, Stern made $100,800, and Patel was up $161,900. Much of Rosenkrantz’s earnings came at the hands of David “Viffer” Peat and Patel recorded only two losing weeks.
The group then reviewed highlights and lowlights from the summer. For Roberts, the latter included hangovers and getting “bludgeoned” when he played big. For Stern, lowlights included busting his accounts on both Cake Poker and Ultimate Bet. For Patel, highlights included the double date and after-party, while Rosenkrantz enjoyed the Lockdown session versus Peat.
The future of the 10-episode “2 Months, $2 Million” series is up in the air. The quartet will purportedly return to Las Vegas for the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP). E-mails and phone calls placed to G4 executives inquiring about Season 2 of “2 Months, $2 Million” were not returned as of press time.
