Dan Bilzerian

Dan Bilzerian is an American gambler and film actor. --- As a professional poker player Bilzerian's most notable cash was in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event, for which he appeared on six episodes of the show's television broadcast. He is also a co-founder of Victory Poker, an online poker room. In 2010 he was voted one of the funniest poker players on twitter by Bluff Magazine. On March 9, 2011 Bilzerian raced fellow race car enthusist Dan Goldstein for a wager of $385,000 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, with Bilzerian racing a Kirkham replica of the famous 1965 AC Cobra and Goldstein behind the wheel of a Ferrari 458 Italia. Bilzerian won the race. In November 2011 Bilzerian, along with ten others including actors Tobey Maguire, Nick Cassavetes and Gabe Kaplan, was asked to pay back winnings that they had won in poker games against ponzi-scheme operator Bradley Ruderman after Ruderman was sentenced to prison, to help pay back some of the victims Ruderman had stolen from over his criminal career. That same year Bilzerian defended Alexander Rodriguez publicly against accusations that he had gambled illegally, claiming that he was present when the alleged gambling event had taken place and Rodriguez was not present. --- Bilzerian's film performances include a role as a stuntperson in the 2013 films Olympus Has Fallen and as an actor in Lone Survivor, which Bilzerian also helped to bankroll. Bilzerian also has acting roles in the upcoming films The Other Woman and The Equalizer. --- Bilzerian enlisted in the Navy in 1999 and first went into BUD/S after completing boot camp and Quartermaster school. Bilzerian completed 2 hell weeks and all but 2 days of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training before being rolled all the way back to the beginning of second phase for a safety violation on the firing range. He was then administratively dropped a few weeks before graduation for a personality conflict with an instructor. Bilzerian was the victim of three heart attacks by the age of 30. Bilzerian is also a gun collector. He is the son of Wall Street corporate take over artist Paul Bilzerian and the brother of Adam Bilzerian, who also plays poker.