This week on the G4 online poker show “2 Months, $2 Million,” four online poker players challenged the cast in football, nightlife, and, of course, poker. The contenders included Andrew luckychewy Lichtenberger, Steve Zugwat Silverman, Aaron aejones, Jones, and Daniel Starkey Starkey. The “2 Months, $2 Million” crew consists of Emil Patel, Jay Rosenkrantz, Brian Roberts, and PocketFives.com member Dani ansky451 Stern. The show airs on Sunday nights at 9:00pm ET and replays throughout the week on the cable station.
Stern opened the challenge by commenting on his competition: “Andrew is luckychewy. It’s because when he was younger, he used to always eat chewy granola bars.” Lichtenberger (pictured at left) is 21 years-old and already owns $754,000 in earnings from World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournaments, including an 18th place showing in the Main Event this year for $500,000. On Starkey, Stern remarked, “Starkey plays lower stakes games from the rest of us, but he’s ferocious.” Silverman a former Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) event winner, received the following scouting report from Stern: “He’s a feared online poker player.”The first squad to score seven touchdowns was declared the winner of the football portion of the challenge. Stern logged consecutive defensive scores in a Brian Urlacher-like performance and also recorded a receiving touchdown to catapult the “2 Months, $2 Million” crew to a 7-4 victory over Jones’ house on the field.
Silverman (pictured at right) sought revenge for the football loss by playing against Rosenkrantz heads-up online. Rosenkrantz explained, “Zugwat’s really good. He’s 21 and he’s already made millions.” Rosenkrantz was quickly down $40,000 for the week in large part due to Silverman’s play. Later on in the episode, Rosenkrantz’s setbacks on the virtual felts continued, as he suffered losses in Omaha at the hands of ROCK_ET_MAN and GON3INW1ND. On the latter, he commented, “He’s one of the top five players I’ve ever played heads-up.”Rosenkrantz’s losses at the tables and Roberts’ girlfriend in town meant that only Stern and Patel participated in the nightlife challenge, which emanated from Ghostbar on top of the Palms in Las Vegas. The scoring was based on getting a girl to buy you a drink, getting a girl to do five pushups, and getting a girl to take off her panties. Lichtenberger’s charm, which included telling a girl, “Don’t roll your eyes. You’re a cute girl, but when you roll your eyes, you look like you’re 40,” was enough to win the challenge. He triumphantly convinced a girl to remove her panties, knotting up the house versus house challenge at one apiece.
Fittingly, the poker competition would determine the ultimate winner. The best of three heads-up sit and gos featured Rosenkrantz against Silverman in the first pairing. Rosenkrantz won the opening game after his A-K held up against A-2. Silverman emerged victorious in the second and third matches, however, giving the “Away” team a 2-1 edge. Then, Roberts squared off against Lichtenberger, with luckychewy also taking down two of the three games to give the opposing house a 4-2 lead.
Stern (pictured at left) then faced Jones, who promptly won the first match when his pocket nines held up against Stern’s pocket sevens to give the contenders a 5-2 lead. Facing a seemingly insurmountable deficit, Stern won two straight, pulling the “2 Months, $2 Million” cast to within one game of a tie. Patel defeated Starkey in two straight match-ups to take a 6-5 lead, but Starkey rallied to force overtime. In the final match, whose participants were determined by a random draw, Roberts defeated Jones two games to none, forcing Jones’ crew to clean the “2 Months, $2 Million” house.When the totals were revealed for the week, the cast had suffered a major setback despite their win against Jones and company. Roberts dropped $4,000, Stern was $33,000 in the hole, and Rosenkrantz was down $80,000. Patel, meanwhile, won $32,800 during the week, but it was not enough to offset his housemates’ major losses. All told, the “2 Months, $2 Million” team was down $84,200 on the week for a three-week earnings total of $114,400. The $2 million goal remains, although a large amount of ground must be made up.
Next week, the preview explains, “The guys declare war on French poker legend David Benyamine. They’re gunning for his money, his respect, and his girl.” Benyamine is engaged to fellow poker pro Erica Schoenberg. “2 Months, $2 Million” airs at 9:00pm ET on Sundays on G4.
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