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YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wAB11GndpY

Great video. Just taking baller to a whole new level.

TBH he is only doing what anyone with a $100 million trust fund would do. I'm not up with the young person vernacular, but if baller means cool, he ain't that. If I saw someone like Ivey doing this, knowing that he actually earned the money from humbler beginnings, then I would be much more awestruck. Certainly shouldn't hero worship the guy, Tikay would probably be hosting champagne parties with lots of fly honeys in the first class cabin of 9.20 from Lewisham to Charing Cross if he had $100 million to play with.

I'm not slagging him off either, obviously I'm as jealous as the next man and its quite good popcorn gif entertainment, but he didnt do anything to be this playboy we see other than be born.

Guns guns guns, that's exactly whats wrong with America. Every moron can get one so easily

Is he this guy?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Bilzerian


Where did he get all his poker winnings from? Not sure I'd even heard of him. I need to get out more.

His Dad went bankrupt owing hundreds of millions. 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bilzerian (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bilzerian)

Some bitter people have put two and two together and made four.

Wow is this really what people aspire to these days?

I am not sure his 'buzz' is really based on aspiration, more just a fascination that some people can live like this, so far removed from an average Joe.

He has made his poker money (he claims >$50 million) in private cash games staying clear of battling the big guns and milking the businessman who want to play with him.

I have no idea why anyone would want 90+ guns.

Believe he had a nice run at the WSOP and span $2k into $2m

I saw some interview with Ivey the other day, where they asked him about Bilzerian's claims Ivey was bust.  He said he didn't think he had ever played with him.  So he goes to the WSOP plays loads of big games makes $2m and avoids playing with the fella all these rich businessman would really love to play with.

He has one Hendon mob cash, think people need to be a bit more cynical.

+1 I know tons of people who claim to be winning big in live cash games (soft 5/10 games) - it's the last place people can go to lie about poker winnings

If this lad has made $50m in cash games I would be absolutely stunned.  It just doesn't stand up to any scrutiny.   If you look at the best years of some of the very best players in the world like Galfond, Ivey, playing online they are making $2-3m a year playing at the very highest stakes (albeit against the best) but they are also seeing a lot more hands etc and are better than him yet this guy is suggesting he makes more money than them despite playing less hands and presumably at lower stakes.  Sad thing is he probably has won a couple of million like Marky says and that in itself is very good but why embellish it?

He plays in games against businessmen where the big blind is 25k with straddles etc he's playing in games where pros rent allowed to play against some of the richest gamblers in America. Making absolute chunks.

Never said he made $2m playing :D

$2k-$2m was from the % he bought in Jay Farber in the m/e

Yeah or maybe he bought 50% then told the tax office he bought 20% and a uk reg had 30 and was tax free..

lol I was in Vegas before xmas and ended up playing 1/2 with this gobby cockney guy (he was only playing 1/2 for fun cuz his mate was  ::) ). He was going on about how he usually makes 20 grand a week from poker, plays all over the country including at DTD where he was getting the lot lol, and I could see his Ferrari parked outside sometimes (it belongs to another reg the one that is often there). Ok I don't go to DTD that much these days, maybe only a couple of times a month, but I at least know who most of the locals/regs and high rollers are. I just knew this guy was full of shit and a plastic balla, I don't know how he thought he could get away with his bullshit. I hate that word balla anyway, anyone that tries to be seen to be one is a nob anyway in my book.

If he hasn't "won" $50M or whatever then he's pretty dumb shouting off about it as a US Citizen. Or maybe he thinks the IRS don't use the internet or follow blogs? :D

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Obv very into his fine art..

Not suggesting he doesn't play in big games and isn't winning.  I don't know but the idea that he has won $50m in these games is laughable and just doesn't add up.  I just read his cardplayer interview and he said 10k-25k was the biggest he had played and that he won 10.9m one night playing 5k-10k.  I assume these games are fairly rare so you would need an insane win rate but even if he was that good there are so many other things that make no sense in his "backstory".  Surely if you were a huge winner in huge games with no pro's allowed you would be fairly circumspect about it and certainly wouldn't be having cameras following you doing documentaries on how you were this balla poker pro.  In my life I have known a lot of gamblers including a lot of professionals and the golden rule is generally that nobody has as much money or is making as much as everybody thinks they are.  There is the odd exception.  Tony Bloom, for example, was making more than even I could imagine but those that were making more almost always got it very quietly, they had to in order not to kill the golden goose.  My guess would be that Barry is right and that he has access to significant money from his trust fund and is blowing that and playing poker when he feels like it and probably doing alright out of it if he is any good but if he is able to make $10-15m a year he is suggesting in the long run I would be amazed.

That would make the games bigger than most of the games being played in Macau. We hear enough rumours, reports and gossip from those games, which are shrouded in mystery and privacy, in Macau. However we never hear about these games in Vegas where a huge percentage of the poker community reside, except of course from Dan.

If they existed, there would be threads on 2+2, we would hear so many more stories of big names playing in them etc. Ivey, Dwan, Trickett etc would be there. Ivey would have played with Dan by now, but he says he never has.

I'm not saying these games don't exist, but clearly Dan is massively exaggerating them. I also think Dan is likely the "rich businessman" who are supposed to frequent them.

They don't let Ivey play, but they let some massive publicity whore play who brags about how he has done them for $50 million.  I pretty much know nobody who enjoys having their misfortune rubbed in their face like Bilzerian does, yet they still show up and hand over their millions. 

I'm sure he must be talking about private games, home games etc. Can imagine things get pretty insane when there's billionaires mixing in the same circles who all like a bit of poker.

It's a bit like a bunch of rich businessmen refusing the chance to play golf with tiger woods but happily letting Justin Bieber play a round with them and act like a little shit throughout.

I've got no idea who he plays with, what stakes for, and where he plays. I was only talking about him posting this pic after the WSOP


(http://www.assopoker.com/images/stories/poker_news/2013/11/dan-bilzerian-money.jpg)

I gave Jay Farber $2k and he gave me this...


No idea who he plays with, what stakes for, or where he plays, but can't see that he'll be playing for long if he's mugging off everyone in the games :D


Can see that the stakes he is playing are huge from Instagram, where he regularly posts pictures of chipstacks around ~5m

He posts photos of his chip stacks from these cash games?

Oh dear.....

IV played a decent amount with him, in Vegas they make it 10handed for him and people literally fly into town to play against him. The reason he mouths off time after time about much he is "winning" from poker (and IV no doubt he is winning a LOT btw) is because he knows full well none of the pro players he lords over have any respect for his game, quite the contrary in fact.

He put pictures of his watch collection on twitter and encouraged others to post pictures of theirs with the tag #100kwatchesonly and he said in an interview he doesn't make friends with poor people because the just hold him back doing stuff.

The man is about as classless as you can be.

I believe he has made $50m from poker, and he will be the biggest nit you know, with no game.

But he rubs shoulders with the richest people in the world, and can host a private game with minimum of $5m buy in.

So he's probably only 10 buy ins up from these games

Here's a photo taken at one of these private games.

(http://www.007museum.com/pokerbond.jpg)

100% false, he is certainly not a nit.

Dave his life is how I imagine yours to be just he's on a few more Roids and a few less women

I can see how having no respect for his game isn't the best mindset for playing against him, but still don't get why pros would travel miles to play him if he is really good and winning heaps.  

Kind of like the bluescouse days on Betfair.  He may have been wild and unpredictable, so could win stacks at times. but if your game is fundamentally terrible you are going to lose your money in the end.  I am struggling to remember anyone who attracted big wait lists who wasn't anything over than a loser in the games.  From my brief time on the Omaha cash tables, you saw some very aggressive 3 and 4 bettors who were genuinely very good at the game, but barring a few short stackers, people didn't make any effort to sit in their games.  

I can't see how live can be that different.   If he is really good, and making absolute chunks from people, they realise long before they start travelling to play him.  Surely?

Might it be that, online, even if someone throws their chips around, you can fairly quickly tell through tracking software if they're actually any good or not. Whereas live, it might not be so easy to tell the difference, so the guy who is actually very good gets labelled as lucky for far longer than he should do, and so gets the action.

ya the guy who inherited a large quantity of stolen money is def prob a super calculating winner at poker too, or it just doesn't matter if he wins or not.

One tabling, you are going to notice somebody in virtually every pot, or that they are 3 betting way more than they should or chetting every time they raise pre.

David made the point these fellas who travel to play him were pros.  I can see how somebody up for the weekend with a large cocktail in his hand might not notice betting tendencies of his fellow players, but your average pro should be able to work this out without software to help.   You are going to be pretty clear on most of this before you start hopping on a plane to play the big fish otherwise you aren't getting that ticket.  And surely the most terrible of live pros is going to realise old big mouth is actually a winner long before they lose all their money?  Even it they can't quite do counting, most are going to be able to google him and realise he has got chunks. 

The way I see it is there is one really strong probable reason he has loads of money and one that seems to be inconsistent with a lot of things I have witnessed in poker. 

Wins in massive games with guys who are giving him a spin, and loses in smaller games to pros who he likes to sit and flaunt his wealth to?

He posted this image relatively recently on his instagram, looks like a $10mill rack at Aria - gulp!

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I doubt that he's lying about anything. These wealthy businessmen probably invite him to their poker games as he adds value in non-poker related areas - I.e. knowing playboy girls and being able to run a decent party. He probably has a trust fund that he can fall back on if his larger than life "one time" spin/run comes to an end.

I somehow doubt wealthy businessmen and sport stars struggle to meet girls or with getting invites to decent parties.

Lot of jealousy ITT

MAN GOT RACK!



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Not all wealthy businessmen are 30 years old, good looking, sporty and social ninjas. The vast majority are probably the opposite. If he’s taking a lot from these ‘big games’ then there must be a reason why they keep inviting him back. Maybe it’s his personality. I’m only speculating.

Haha no you got a link?

He got through SEAL training the same way i passed selection.............


but he does appear to have a rather exuberant lifestyle, fair play to him

like someone else said earlier, "haters gonna hate"

if you dont like reading about what he's done or claims to do, then dont read about it


PS, i never passed selection

PPS, i didnt even dream about picking up a pen and aplying for it, not my style

It's cute how people still think that the biggest games happen in casinos or even that people crushing online come even close to big winners in live games.

He started with a lot of money, he has a lot of fun, he plays very high stakes poker against people who have no clue and wins a lot, this money is not really that relevant to the starting float. He then messes about in what Internet warriors think are the 'biggest games' and drops what might only be 20 bigs in respect to other games he plays.

He had $1m from Jay not 2.

The biggest games I'm sure are still in the USA, not just in reference to this but games like the one where Tony Greg made 8 figs, the games Noah plays in Florida etc

He's not a very good poker player, luckily though he is wealthy enough to afford to lose every time he plays till he dies, and even more fortunately the games he plays in are filled with majority of people who are worse at poker than him, and are very high stakes. So he does alrite ;-) certainly has won/will win more money from the game than I will/have by a significant multiplier - and ofc you get no prizes or medals for great cardsmanship at th end of the day, you either get the money or you don't.

That wasn't my point really though, I think he is kinda classless with the hole twitter/Instagram braggy carry on, he did donate $100k to 10 gd causes through a twitter stunt in December so credit for that but in general that's my opinion of him.

You never know though I might go for dinner with him one day and find I'm completely wrong, as my opinions are only formed on about 5 playing experiences and from his social media performance.but defo struck me to have a real chip n his shoulder towards pro poker players.

He's probably a douche, but he's great entertainment. Not sure what people want from the internet and reading social media.

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Blinds?

IV heard of games in Miami that have beeb as big as $2k/$4k With antes, I'm very sure that there is no games bigger than those ones in Macao though.

Yeah the big daily game in Macau is 1k 2k euro equivalent stakes and that game is often bigger/ with straddles but I've heard it's run at 8k 16k euro before.

IV heard rumours of a game as big as 30/60 usd in the not to distant past

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6a6KeewFK8

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at first i thought "What a *****" since ive followed him now for a few months hes growing on me. What a motherfucking life. Im not a huge fan of guns so if he dropped that side of things hed be in my top 10 people in the world right now.

I do think this is what pleno would be like if he spent some of his money on fun stuff rather then hiding it under his bed

? you guys missing a couple of zero's?

im assuming 30k/60k usd

Am going to look at this from a different angle, and accuse previous posters as being short sighted, let me tell you why!
Through Facebook etc, lot of mates at uni know I play poker. 3 different people in the last 2 days at uni, who really have no idea how to play, and said 'you see that guy Bilzarian, I love him. What life, is that what your goig to be like??' Etc or something along those lines.
Surely him doing this is fantastic for normal players/ professionals as it's going to get young people/ more punters heading off to the local casino searching for a similar lifestyle, being bad and sending the monies out way.
Not agree??

Just saw someone put this link on twitter. Not really relevant, but goes to show there are people for whom dropping a milly here and there is fairly meaningless

http://www.institutionalinvestorsalpha.com/Article/3337321/The-Rich-List-The-Highest-Earning-Hedge-Fund-Managers-of-the-Past-Year.html

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxBRnAykFXg

Howard Stern is lol

Hi Alun,

That article mentions John Paulson.

I won't derail this thread, but I'll write something about him this morning in my Diary.

Agree that bilzerian is largely great for poker. May tarnish some perceptions of poker players (but most poker players deserve that anyway) but he is likely to attract far more people to the game than phil Ivey or patrik antonius.

His 'Daily Pussy' tweets are certainly... interesting.

He posted this shortly afterwards from one of his agents/advisors...

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Valid point. Had a number of non poker playing friends ask about him aswel got to be good for the game although not the soul ;-)

If youve won 50 million this year.... how uch have you lost. For the love of fuck why is my grandma interviewing

$50m this year I find extremely hard to believe.

He is good value tbf lol

We need a HSNL player to start rubbing his ego up the wrong way. That would be one bloodbath I'd enjoy.

Sounds like BS alright doesn't it.