WSOP Main Event Runner-Up to Compete for $4.6 Million on Netflix Reality TV Game Show

Poker professional Steven Jones will compete for over $4.5 million on the upcoming Squid Sport: The Problem actuality TV recreation present.

The quantity he may win, albeit large, is lower than the $6.5 million he secured for ending second to Daniel Weinman within the 2023 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Primary Occasion. However the problem to get that cash will probably be simply as tough as outlasting all however one in every of 10,043 entrants in a poker event.

Poker Professional Takes on New Problem

Jones, an Arizona native, introduced on social media that he’ll be a contestant beginning Nov. 4 on the brand new Squid Sport: The Problem competitors, enjoying for $4.56 million. The present’s second season will air solely on Netflix.

The sport begins with 456 gamers, together with the near-poker world champion. Squid Sport: The Problem is a British actuality TV competitors sequence primarily based on the wildly fashionable drama sequence, Squid Sport, a South Korean dystopian survival thrill drama sequence.

Not like the fictional sequence, the gamers will not die throughout the varied challenges they need to go, or face elimination, to win life-changing cash. However the contestants will bear quite a few bodily and psychological challenges. This is a have a look at the Netflix trailer (Jones, Contestant 183, briefly seems on the 1:00 mark).

Season 1, which lasted 10 episodes, aired in late 2023 and have become No. 1 on Netflix’s Prime 10 English-language exhibits for the primary two weeks after its launch. Greater than 20 million folks tuned in throughout the first week, and over 220 million watched throughout the first 21 days.

Jones is not the primary poker participant to compete on a preferred actuality TV recreation present. Robbi Jade Lew appeared final 12 months on USA Community’s The Nameless, however did not have a lot success. Coincidentally, her nemesis, Garrett Adelstein, is one of some former Survivor contestants throughout the poker neighborhood.