G4 Cable station premiered their new series 2 months, 2 million last Sunday night.  The premise of the show is to showcase four online poker players attempt at making 2 million dollars in 2 months as the title so eloquently suggests.

Brian “Flawless_Victory” Roberts, Jason “pr1nnyraid” Rosenkrantz, and Dani “Ansky” Stern, and Emil “whitelime” Patel are the cast of online poker pros who are trying to make it big. Three of the pros are working for Deuces Cracked by producing high quality poker training videos so they do have a small chance of making the 2 million dollars in the next couple months. The first episode was 22 minutes long and was jam packed with reality style footage of them playing poker, making prop bets, and going clubbing.  It did seem that they were trying a bit too hard in front of the camera but the premise of the show still showed a lot of promise.  They have ten episodes in total planned over the next 10 weeks.

Each player is held accountable for pulling their own weight by a weekly prop bet that makes the player who makes the least or losses the most do something embarrassing in public.  I won't ruin who lost the first month but it was pretty funny to watch the outcome of the lost prop bet.  I also really like their "tilt room" that they use when the players need to blow off some steam, that alone might be worth watching the show.

Poker Training Guide does recommend you check it out as its good for poker and their is a lot of potential in the new poker series 2 months, 2 million.

Online poker training mogul CardRunners has opened up a Poker Training Store. A one-stop shop for memberships to CardRunners, StoxPoker, e-books, apparel, with more items being added on an ongoing basis.  At the poker training store you can get a Cardrunners hoodie,  hats, shirts, mens and women clothing of all types.

To celebrate the launch, CardRunners will be conducting a t-shirt design contest with more than $2,000 in cash prizes and membership rewards for the five finalists.  If you or any of your friends would like to submit a t-shirt design visit the site for more instructions.  For more information on CardRunners, visit Cardrunners.com

Aug 31 to Sep 2 2009 Special

Purchase any three items at the store before September 2, 2009 and TAKE $25 OFF your entire order of $100 or more when you use coupon code V48p3.  This includes memberships to Cardrunners or Stox Poker, apparel, software, and more.

 

 

*Limit one discount per person.  Applicable at www.pokertrainingstore.com only. Offer expires September 2, 2009.

2009 looks like the year of the personal challenge.  Everybody seems like they have something to prove, or some added  motivation to improve their poker play.

By now everybody has heard of the ongoing Durrrr Challenge.  With Tom Dwan and Patrick Antonius locking horns for hundreds of hours now.

There was also the legendary Boku Challenge where Thomas "Boku" Boekhoff managed to turn $100 into $10,000 in 15 days playing only $16 max sitngos.  He completed that with ease and is now embarking on his turn $5 into $100,000 in 1 year challenge.  Some training site desperately needs to sign this guy up as a coach.  PokerVT?  Spacegravy and Boku as your 2 lead sng instructors would be sick!

Finally as part of the new G4 network show "2 Months, $2 Million" airing August 16th at 9pm, 4 top online pros will be attempting their challenge.

Dani "Ansky" Stern of PokerSavvyPlus

Jay "Krantz" Rosenkrantz of DeucesCracked

Emil "Whitelime" Patel of Deuces Cracked

Brian "Flawless Victory" Roberts of Deuces Cracked

These 4 players will be living together in a "Poker Mansion" and attempt to earn $2 million in 2 months at the tables.  This new poker reality show will follow their wild antics, crazy parties, and their baller lifestyles.  Of course there will be some poker play as well.

Any other poker challenges?

Deepstacks University will soon be launching another poker training site to further add competition in an already crowded market. Deepstacks University will feature a great lineup of live and online pros including:

• Mike Matusow
• Michael Binger
• TJ Cloutier
• Tom Mcevoy
• Nick Binger
• Maria Ho
• Andrew Brown
• Liv Boeree
• Jon Friedberg
• Alex Outhred

Team Deepstacks has won more than $27 Million dollars playing poker and have a combined 16 bracelets from the WSOP. The website looks state of the art and will rival PokerVT in terms of the best looking poker training site online.    Deepstacks University will feature "The Poker Matrix" as well as other learning tools such as "Reactive Training Technology".  This will end up being a state of the art learning site as long as they deleiver on what they promise.

We have been told that the expected launch date is late August so stay tuned for a full review from Poker Training Guide.

This Tuesday at 21:00 GMT PKR will be broadcasting the final table action of the $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E live and exclusively at PKR POKER Considered by the purists as the true benchmark of the world's most complete poker player, the event was watched by over 200,000 people last year.

Click HERE to watch the HORSE Final Table action starting at 3pm EST on PKR!

Bring on the Canada Day celebrations by winning big and more importantly scoring bragging rights among your countrymen at the inaugural PKR Canadian Poker Championships!

Kicking-off on Wednesday, 1 July with the $4,000 GTD NLH (6max) at 21:00 EDT, PKR will be rolling out six massive tournaments, all with Canadian friendly start times, across six huge days. Don't miss out...

Play for free!
As a special Canada day gift PKR will also give you a free ticket (worth $8), along with a 100% match bonus, up to $800. Just make a first deposit of $25 or more using bonus code CPCBONUS before 17:00 EDT, Thursday 2 July via moneybookers.