If you follow the world of high-stakes no-limit cash games and you haven’t heard of Jason ‘Krantz’ Rosenkrantz then you really haven’t been paying attention. The 24-year-old New Yorker was the single biggest winner at the nosebleed hold’em games in 2007, and although 2008 hasn’t gone as well for him, he is still widely regarded as one of the best online high-stakes pros.

Krantz is probably the best known member of a group of New York-based pros known as Team Israel, and is also a founder of the poker training site DuecesCracked. His videos on the site give an insight to his creative, aggressive style, but he still remains one of the more enigmatic figures on the high-stakes scene.

His lifestyle, divided between New York City and Las Vegas, would seem to be the envy of most twenty-somethings, with a heady mix of fast cars, money and partying.