Who is Dan Bilzerian?

Not active around poker scenes a much as before but I came across this guy recently:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...ns-exploits-cash-cars-girls-guns.html

If his pics etc are not fake, which I don't think they are. Financially, he seems to be doing as good as some of the top pros like Ivey or Dwan in terms of poker income.

But I couldn't find any info on his online names etc. I was also very surprised that I didn't find any post about him here?!! Is he full of shit about making his money from poker?

Edit: his name is actually Dan Bilzerian, so maybe an admin can fix the name in the topic plz?

Edit2: I thought it would be good to post his Instagram as we are referencing it: http://instagram.com/danbilzerian

On April 29 2014 23:54 TianYuan wrote: Show nested quote + On April 29 2014 17:32 whamm! wrote: the most interesting person on instagram right? who is this guy on stars and ftp? he seems to be famous even in joe rogans message board, didn't know he played poker for monies Don't really keep up with him, but as far as I know he only plays live? There seemed to be some conflicting accounts on whether his money was made via poker or trustfund, but he knows how to play apparently. Posted some interesting threads back in the day detailing various cocaine binges that lead to consecutive heartattacks and stuff like that... Seems he took off popularity wise since those days tho lol (my girlfriend who does not follow poker AT ALL and doesnt even know the rules of it, sent me his instagram and asked '... is this guy really a good poker player??').

Find some of his old story threads on 2p2, they are pretty fun, read them some years ago... His instagram went viral at some point, but haven't really seen anything from there so duno anything about him outside of his old story threads.

Well...

"He is also co-founder of online poker room, Victory Poker bringing his net worth to around $100 million"

I doubt he's much of a poker player.

his father was a scammer businessman, made loads of money, got caught, probably had hidden loads of money, went to jail,

son wakes up with a hidden fortune, is a navy seal, begins his degen life, is shitload rich and enjoys poker, becomes attention whore, but very interesting attention whore, becomes viral, plays retarded nosebleed poker and runs good, makes shitloads of money at poker, seems to have the sickest life, still all came from dirty money from fraud in the first place, becomes even more viral (even outside poker world), is simply rich now from fathers fraud money and from live poker, is completely addicted to guns and hoes, rumor has that hes already had 3 heart attacks, anyway, nice life

Whether he is up or down lifetime at poker is debatable. What is known is that his dad was a well known corporate raider back in the day who made 100s of millions and that is where Dan's and the rest of the Bilzerian family's wealth comes from. Guy goes hard and posts some of it online.

How do I make a poker room? There seems to be more money in doing that than playing!

hes up a ton at poker. he plays in games that make .01/.02 look tough but for millions of dollars. he might make more per year fro poker than everyone on this site put together, but hes just ok. his brother was a bad nit back in the day in high stakes online, nestegg.

carefaces post is pretty accurate. except hes had 4 heart attacks

I wanna play in those games

On May 01 2014 23:34 Daut wrote: hes up a ton at poker. he plays in games that make .01/.02 look tough but for millions of dollars. he might make more per year fro poker than everyone on this site put together, but hes just ok. his brother was a bad nit back in the day in high stakes online, nestegg. carefaces post is pretty accurate. except hes had 4 heart attacks

have his megastakes cashgame earnings been verified somehow?

How do you get a heart condition in that shape?

On May 02 2014 00:36 bigredhoss wrote: Show nested quote + On May 01 2014 23:34 Daut wrote: hes up a ton at poker. he plays in games that make .01/.02 look tough but for millions of dollars. he might make more per year fro poker than everyone on this site put together, but hes just ok. his brother was a bad nit back in the day in high stakes online, nestegg. carefaces post is pretty accurate. except hes had 4 heart attacks have his megastakes cashgame earnings been verified somehow?

nm

On May 02 2014 00:43 austrian oak wrote: How do you get a heart condition in that shape?

i assume he's done like every steroid known to man too

A douche who doesn't deserve any attention ( that he seeks)
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On May 02 2014 00:43 austrian oak wrote: How do you get a heart condition in that shape?

abusing steroids

Well its been said already but his father nade a fortune with frauds, probably hid the money overseas and Dan had to came up with a story ot justify how he becames rich out of nowhere so... poker it is.

I think he is overall good for the game as you said many ppl outside of the poker circle are talking about him and many idiots want to try their luck in poker to see if they do what he does.

On May 02 2014 07:42 dogmeat wrote: Show nested quote + On May 02 2014 00:43 austrian oak wrote: How do you get a heart condition in that shape? abusing steroids

steroids don't cause heart problems unless the user does it on purpose (not even for pro body builders)
the ones dropping dead are because of the abuse of diuretics to cut water for shows
cocaine+drug mix does though. How many people have survived 3 heart attacks?

you are assuming he has appropriate stack and knows what hes doing thou. btw my grandmother survived 4

Never knew steroids caused heart attacks . assumed it was cocaine

On May 02 2014 09:28 mnj wrote: Never knew steroids caused heart attacks . assumed it was cocaine

this.

i assume first was caused by excessive cocaine use. and i imagine follow up heart attacks are much more likely

i used to be on coke 24/7 and never had a heart attack,but know tons of ppl in there 50s that just died from heart attacks that were cocaine users.

kinda quit that drug since ppl started diein..