Two Months, Two Million - Episode One

Poker Web Watch / Dave Allan / 28 August 2009 / Leave a Comment

The first episode of the eagerly anticipated poker documentary, 'Two Months, Two Million' hit the internet last week and, in my opinion, was worth the wait.

The show revolves around four young, high-stakes professional online poker players who have pooled all of their money and are attempting to win $2,000,000 in two months whilst living the high-life in the world's gambling epicentre, Las Vegas.

Day 1 starts with the team having a look around their home for the duration of the challenge, a huge mansion that must cost an absolute fortune to rent out. The house looks amazing apart from the small problem of having a Barbie pink room full of dolls and teddy bears!

Naturally none of them want to claim this room so they have a small poker tournament to see who gets the pink room, an honour bestowed on the youngest of the crew, Dani 'Ansky' Stern, who is not impressed at all and starts throwing the dolls and bears out onto the landing!

By the end of Day 1 the foursome are up to the tune of $85,000 and look well on course to meet their goals, however things start to take a dramatic turn for the worse when Jay 'Krantz' Rozenkrantz starts to run worse than death against a player called 'BLEWJOB' with set over set, Kings losing to Jacks and rivering a straight which completes a higher straight. This means by Day 3 the team is down to the tune of $38,000, mainly because Krantz is down $81,700!

That night the boys go to the Venitian for a meal and are joined by fellow high-stakes cash gurus, Tom 'durrrr' Dwan and Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond where they discuss poker and try to rebuild Krantz's shattered confidence.

It must have done the trick as during Day 4 the team find themselves even more in the red and Krantz is down a whopping $126,000 but says he spent a lot of time analysing his opponent and has found a timing tell that he is going to exploit, and exploit he does ending a session with over $100,000 on one table! Amazing comeback.

After they have finished grinding, the crew go out to celebrate Emil 'Whitelime' Patel's birthday in a club and you get to some some of the most cringe-worthy dance moves ever to hit the screen and also some absolutely shocking chit-chat by Whitelime who is trying to pull the Vegas ladies!

The episode ends at the end of Day 5 of the first week and the team are counting up their winnings and losses for the week. Krantz somehow finishes the week in profit to the tune of $4,600, Whitelime won $8,600, Brian 'Flawless_Victory' Roberts is in front by a staggering $42,000 but Ansky is down $19,500. This means the team is ahead by $35,700 but because Ansky is the worst performer he has to do a stunt set by his team mates.

They decide that he has to dress up in a pink leotard, complete with pink tutu and a shocking pink wig and go to dinner at one of the casino's buffets! Ansky takes it all in his stride though and even manages to get a girl's phone number telling her he likes to travel around casinos picking up girls with his pink wig!

I can't wait for Episode 2 which should be out shortly. You can watch Episode 1 by searching the popular website, Poker Tube.