In this week’s installment of the G4 online poker reality show “2 Months, $2 Million,” a high-stakes home game featuring David Williams, David “Viffer” Peat, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier, and Andrew “good2cu” Robl took center stage.
The “2 Months, $2 Million” cast entered the week up $507,000 on the season with two episodes remaining. Jay Rosenkrantz, who earned $350,000 off Peat last week, forecasted, “I’m going to do everything I can to help us make the final push to get as close as possible” to the $2 million goal, which seemed woefully out of reach. The idea emerged to hold a live high-stakes game, with Dani Stern and Rosenkrantz heading to the Hard Rock Casino to stir up the pot. However, organizing a game would likely take a few days to come to fruition.
In the interim, Brian Roberts battled “Past” online, losing with A-10 on a 6-J-10-8-3 board with four clubs when Roberts’ opponent showed Kc-Jh. Then, Roberts dropped another sizable pot facing K-Q when the board came runner-runner king. With the situation looking grim at the house, Stern and Rosenkrantz turned to Aaron “aejones” Jones’ house, where Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger, who finished 18th in the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event for $500,000, offered to put up $127,000 and play.
With the team up $167,000 collectively by the third day of the week, the rules for the high-stakes home game were set. The affair would sport a $50,000 buy-in and $100/$200 blinds. The name of the game would be No Limit Texas Hold’em and, initially, Williams was a no-go. Stern lamented, “It’s too bad David Williams is a no-show because we really want to have some people in these games who are willing to gamble. He gives a lot of action, so he’s definitely the type of player we’d want in the game.” However, Williams ultimately turned out. Joining him were Grospellier, Peat, and Robl. Upon arrival, security patted down each player given that hundreds of thousands of dollars were up for grabs.
Only one “2 Months, $2 Million” player sat down at a time, as each of the four cast members had a piece of each other. Grospellier took a $27,000 pot off Williams with A-Q on a queen-high board, while Lichtenberger sent Williams packing after calling his all-in in a separate hand with 9-7 for two pair. Williams exited stage right, telling “2 Months, $2 Million” cameras, “Sometimes you have to know when to quit.”
Then, Rosenkrantz, holding Q-K, bet two-thirds of the pot after a flop of Q-10-7 against Robl. His opponent called and the turn came a six. Rosenkrantz bet out $7,000 and Robl called, creating a $22,000 pot. Then, with a jack on the river, Rosenkrantz checked, Robl bet $13,000, and Rosenkrantz released his hand, flashing his cards. Robl flipped over a jack.
After the home game had disbanded, Williams had lost $50,000, Peat had won $11,200, Litchenberger had earned $29,000, and the “2 Months, $2 Million” cast was down $30,700. Rosenkrantz took his frustrations out on “PIEJAY” on the virtual felts of Ultimate Bet, dropping $60,000 before finally quitting. When the totals for the week were calculated, Rosenkrantz was down $3,200, Emil Patel was up $53,100, Roberts was up $12,000, and Stern was up $47,000. Collectively, the “2 Months, $2 Million” team had won $108,900 during the week for $615,900 overall, but was still $1.4 million short of the $2 million goal.
As a result of turning in the worst financial performance of the week, Rosenktantz was forced to dress up like his avatar, a clown, and beg girls for money to purchase a red nose. Next week marks the season finale of “2 Months, $2 Million,” as an end of summer bash takes place. The show airs on Wednesday nights at 8:00pm ET on G4 and replays throughout the week.
