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Despite its Flaws, '2M2MM' Has a Certain Televisual Appeal

Weekly Alibi | September 8, 2009

What if you took four online poker players, sent them to Las Vegas to live like high-rolling kings and tasked them with the goal of winning $2 million in two months? I'll admit, it's a "what if" scenario I've never actually contemplated. But thanks to the new G4 reality series Two Months. Two Million., it's one with which we're all now confronted.

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Tags: G4, Two Months. Two Million., Las Vegas, poker

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