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Two Months Two Million Stars

G4’s new poker show, Two Months Two Million, premiers on August 16th. The premise is pretty straight forward: 4 poker pros compete against each other to try to win $2 million in 2 months with various challenges and prop bets along the way. I am very curious to see how they are going to present real money online poker on TV.

I have been buying various national TV media for SpadeClub for the last year and am (way too) intimately experienced with the strict policies that every network enforces when it comes to .com advertising. The site I run, SpadeClub.com, is a subscription site and is of course not a real-money .com so the networks don’t really know what to do with us, but that is a whole post in itself. It is a bold move that G4 is even airing a show with a premise based on playing real money online poker. It is hard to believe they will actually show the stars of the show playing on a real money site. When we called G4 to advertise they rejected us with no explanation.

At first, I thought the reason for the rejection was the usual “we don’t take .com advertising,” but typically we at least get told that and have a chance to explain ourselves and provide legal support. Since they didn’t say anything, and were actually quite rude, I have concluded that they have some sort of exclusive with an online poker room. (It’s not like we aren’t in a recession and it’s not like TV ad dollars aren’t vanishing…TAKE OUR MONEY PLEASE.) This leads me to believe that the four stars Dani Stern (a beloved CardPlayer Pro instructor), Brian Roberts, Emil Patel, and Jay Rozenkrantz will all be playing on one site that paid G4 a sum of money for the privileged.

If my prediction is right and they are so brazen to do it, perhaps it will loosen up some of those strict policies in the future.