Poker Personalities on reality TV shows: Is this part of a poker publicity stunt?

A poker reality show, “2 Months, $2 Million”, just launched through G4 network with their pilot network last August 16. The show is starred by online poker pros Jay Rosenkrantz, Emil Patel, Brian Roberts and Dani Stern. The show’s plot is: these poker players play poker for the duration of 2 months aiming to win $2 million in a joint bankroll. They will all stay in a 10,000 square foot home equipped with large 50-inch plasma screens and computers to play online poker. They will be surrounded with cameras following their every move.

If this is a show for mere publicity of poker or of online poker companies, we don’t know. But this sure is a great poker game platform if advertising and publicity really matters.

This is not the first time that poker has been exposed to reality shows. Prior to these shows, poker personalities have been part of reality shows. People could think that this is merely a publicity stunt – or this might be part of a poker game platform. Poker has been shouting justice for a long time, anyways. Shouting out for publicity wouldn’t be something new.

Personalities like Jean-Robert (Survivor), Annie Duke (Celebrity Apprentice), Maria Ho and Tiffany Michelle (The Amazing Race), and even poker celebrity model Jennifer Korbin (Solitary V3.0) involved themselves in reality shows representing the poker community, consciously or unconsciously; willingly or unwillingly. Letting the people understand that there are advantages in poker playing is the best representation they could display in these shows. Their skills, strategies, and abilities led and would lead them to winning.

And if these are all publicity stunts or not, still, this kind of exhibit could be part of a poker game platform… or maybe a platform for the whole poker community to be known, recognized, and legalized.