Ok, so during the 4th episode of Two Month Two Millions (2M2MM), I must say it bothered me slightly that I was kind of portrayed as a hit n run artist. In my humble opinion, this is quite far from the truth. Elderwand and I danced late into the night on several occasions. I picked up over $100K from him after about 2,000 hands… and after such a run why would I EVER consider to stop playing him? Of course I wouldn’t!

Being completely clueless as to who ELDERWAND really was, I kept on playing him with the self-contrived psychological advantage (now whether or not this mental positioning was skewed is debatable) of thinking he was just some random high-stakes donkey taking a shot. I was able to successfully outplay my opponent banking just over $135K against him before the tables began to turn… About 1K hands later, he made a hell of a rally against me making about $100K back! At this point, however, I’m still up over $35,000 on him and I’m feeling like I’m still freerolling this till the tables turn back to my favor, which I was certain was to come. No offence Krantz, you are a hell of a player, but you were getting pretty damn lucky against me during that rally haha!

Little by little, it became quite obvious that I was not playing some random donk; you see, donks will rarely last more than 1-2 full rebuys at $10K a clip!

Now finally realizing that I must be dealing with a true professional, I had to readjust my game and throw out the slightly arrogant/condescending perception I had developed during my first 3,000+ hands against ELDERWAND (aka Krantz). Maybe it took me a little longer than it should, but hey, I’m only human too… (please see graph to see how drastically the tables had turned!)

At this point it was time for some ultra focus. I began to pay more attention to my play and to more proactively recall my previous plays I made against him in order to manipulate his perception of the new lines I was taking. My biggest advantage over him was finally realizing that he was a very good player after all! This ultimately helped me shape my final counter-strategy/play. My only real advantage, in my opinion, was the fact that he didn’t realize that I knew he was just as sick as me in terms of willingness to gamble and ability to make epic plays…

All in all, I ended UP about $110,000 on ELDERWAND. Take a look at my graph and you’ll see that he truly was a formidable opponent… And you know, I totally understand that from a marketing prospective it was necessary for the producers of 2M2MM to portray me as a Hit N Run artist… for after all, how much entertainment value would there be if the antagonist (me, BLEWJOB) were to consistently outplay the Hero? Probably not the best “play” for a “reality show.”