Boston Rob Weighs in on ‘Deal or No Deal Island’ Winner David Genat’s Game (Exclusive)

Courtney “CK” Kim’s gameplay created fairly a stir on Deal or No Deal Island.

CK cheated throughout a mid-season tour and performed a messy social sport, however the company banker, 36, nonetheless made it to the ultimate three alongside David Genat or Alexis Lete. Nevertheless, her social sport got here again to harm her within the final tour, which required eradicated contestants to assist lively gamers purchase the very best valued instances all through an impediment course. CK ended up with the bottom complete and obtained eradicated from the sport.

“CK is a classic example of a contestant that did way too much,” Deal or No Deal Island season 1 contestant and after present host Boston Rob Mariano tells PEOPLE. “She made alliances when she didn’t need to make alliances. She made promises she didn’t need to make. She just tried to cover every avenue, and by doing so, it put her in a position where she couldn’t maneuver, and she couldn’t do anything but upset and hurt people.”

Mariano, 49, admits “there’s something for playing hard,” and he acknowledges he did simply that whereas enjoying Survivor: All-Stars in 2003. “I legitimately did everything that I needed to do to get to the end,” he says. “I cut throats, I killed friendships and I expected them to give it to me at the end.”

However the win went to Mariano’s now-wife Amber Brkich, and on Deal or No Deal Island season 2, Genat, 45, took dwelling a grand prize of $5,800,000.

“She’s done this really cutthroat gamer play, and she’s put herself in a position where she can’t do anything about it. Like, everybody is emotionally really against her,” Mariano factors out of CK.

Mariano commends Genat for enjoying a “great” sport, however he thinks Genat’s ally Parvati Shallow “ran him around a little.”

“I don’t think he made the decision to put Parvati in, I think Parvati made the decision to put Parvati in,” Mariano says of Shallow, 42, going into the final temple earlier than the finale. “I think Parvati realized that had she not played and let CK play and CK wins, that she would’ve been sent home. So I think it was smart of her to take her own destiny in her own hands and try to face The Banker.”

Though “It didn’t work out for her,” Marano thinks Shallow “performed accurately.“

“And that’s all you can do,” he says. “There is a right and a wrong way to play the temple. And that is you don’t ever put yourself in a position to take less than true odds, which at worse would be 50/50. I don’t think sitting there and letting your fate happen to you is like. It wouldn’t look good on Parv, so I think that’s why she volunteered to play.”

Together with having a powerful ally in Shallow, Mariano thinks Genat “had a big leg up” attributable to his historical past on Australian Survivor.

“But he also had to execute, and he did flawlessly,” Mariano says. “So I hand it to him. The only exception I take in his entire game is where he starts calling himself the best Survivor player in the world! We got to put that asterisk Australian up there.”

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