Krantz and co wrap shooting of 2M2M

Looks like shooting has wrapped on the highly anticipated (at least in some corners) first season of ‘2 months, $2 million’, a reality show set to air this August on cable channel G4.

The premise of the show: high stakes online poker players live together in a Vegas mansion and try to make … you guessed it, two million in two months. The pros: Krantz, Whitelime, flawless_victory, and ansky. If those nicknames don’t mean anything to you, their real names wouldn’t either.

While you’re unlikely to see LDO pot brownie footage in this show, Krantz promises on his blog that there will be plenty of equivalent moments for those who choose to tune in: “As everyone knows, I can’t spoil any content. There are concepts that are part of the show that G4 hasn’t revealed yet but probably will very soon. Did we make $2 million? I know, but can’t say. But I can say that it doesn’t matter. I know the events of the show, the storyline of Team Israel, this summer. And for the guys that followed us from that first summer at 200/400 in 2007, and then last summer and the subsequent RailHeaven downswing… this summer just blows all that out of the water. If you ever wondered why some of us were playing 5/10 and 10/20 instead of 200/400, or just how much money we all lost individually on that downswing, or whether or not any of us wanted to move back up to those stakes, what we think of all the players who play in those games… if you ever wondered how we talk about poker strategy or analyse our own hands or which videos we watch or wondered which of us takes the biggest pieces when we play really big.. that’s all in there. If you love the weed brownies video or the things we do at DeucesCracked, there’s a lot to love in the show too. A lot. Just exactly who is flawless_victory? You’re going to find out.”

It will be interesting to see how G4 balances the needs of their two presumed audiences for the show - fairly hardcore online poker players and the casual gamers with recreational poker experience who comprise the majority of the channel’s audience. Our guess is that the show will cater heavily to the latter. Either way, it should make for some interesting watching, as it is essentially the first show of its kind.

You can read more about the development, etc, of the show at Krantz’s blog.