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20 Oct
The Day Dan Bilzerian Won $12.8 Million in a Poker Game. The infamous internet playboy Dan Bilzerian has spoken about the day he won the most on poker in a single day - according to himself, he once left the table $12.8 million richer. Bilzerian - who undoubtedly has seen phenomenal success on social media, with his Instagram account alone boasting of almost 25 million followers - is sticking to his claim that he's made his fortune playing cards. The largest non Hold'em Tournament has been the 2008 WSOP $50K HORSE with a prize pool of $7,104,000 and the first prize of $1,989,120 going to Scotty Nguyen. Below are the 30 largest poker tournaments with respect to the prize pool in United States dollars and not number of entrants. This list includes live and online poker.
The infamous internet playboy Dan Bilzerian has spoken about the day he won the most on poker in a single day - according to himself, he once left the table $12.8 million richer.
Bilzerian - who undoubtedly has seen phenomenal success on social media, with his Instagram account alone boasting of almost 25 million followers - is sticking to his claim that he's made his fortune playing cards. This was one of the rare occasions when he goes into specifics about his poker career.
He appeared on the online interview series In Depth with Graham Bensinger, where he was asked about the most money he had ever won on poker.
'I think it was like 12.8 [million dollars], but it was over the period of three games. (..) I was sitting with like over 18 million, because I bought in for some money. (..) I think I had lost, initially, then I rebought. (..) We're playing No-Limit Hold'em, and we're playing heads-up and the blinds are $10,000/$25,000, so it's, you know, a real big game.'
It's a real big game indeed - in fact, even just the big blind in this alleged crazy high stakes cash game is bigger than the minimum buy-in ($20K) at the world's most famous known high stakes cash game, at Bobby's Room at the Bellagio.
Later in the interview, Bilzerian shared another crazy gambling story, starring the same millionaire he played his high highly lucrative series of heads-up cash sessions against.
'He just decided that for an hour he wasn't gonna look at his cards. (..) You can't read somebody who doesn't know what the fuck they have. But yeah, then he decided he wanna start betting in like, physical things, like a Mercedes, or Ferrari, whatever.'
So we now have a few interesting tales of Bilzerian at the poker table, he still rarely plays publicly - although last year he did stream some online heads-up cash from Bill Perkins' account.
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The $5,000 buy-in Main Event of the World Series of Poker international series wrapped up on Saturday night with the top 4 finishers all taking home more than $1 million in prize money. With the typical World Series of Poker in Las Vegas postponed this year the action moved online and the World Series of Poker international series Main Event had a total prize pool of $27,559,500.
There were 5,802 buy-ins into the $5,000-entry Main Event. Notable entries included PSG star and Brazilian soccer phenom Neymar Jr. and former heavyweight boxing champion Riddick Bowe.
The final heads-up pairing came down to Bulgaria's Stoyan Madanzhiev against Wenling Gao of China. On the final hand of the Main Event, Stoyan Madanzhiev flopped a straight which took down Gao's pocket aces which is an absolutely brutal way to get knocked out heads-up. Looking down and seeing AA you think you are absolutely money and then your opponent flops a straight and poof, you're gone.
For his second-place finish, Wenling Gao won $2.7 million. Not bad. Stoyan Madanzhiev took home a record $3.9 million for first place, the ‘largest prize in online poker history'. American Tyler Rueger won $1.9 million for 3rd place and New Zealand's Thomas Ward brought home $1.35 million for his 4th place finish.
‘Poker Brat' Phil Hellmuth busted in 750th right before the money bubble. In total, 728 spots were paid out across the $27,559,500 prize pool. There were three Americans at the final table with the other two, Tyler Cornell and Sam Taylor, finishing 8th and 9th respectively for $328,305 and $230,395.
In the final hand, 2nd place finisher Wenling Gao got all his chips in with AcAd only to see her opponent (yes, her) call with 7d6h. At that moment he had his opponent completely dominated. But Bulgaria's Stoyan Madanzhiev miraculously flopped a 7-high straight and held on to win 1st place.
According to ESPN's Chalk, some American participants moved internationally for this event which also allowed them to buy-in multiple times in the early stages:
The international series was hosted on GGPoker.com after the coronavirus pandemic forced the traditional World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas to be postponed. There were 5,802 entries into the $5,000 buy-in main event, creating a $27.6 million prize pool, the largest in online poker history.
Players were allowed to buy in three times during the early rounds of the main event and were required to be physically located in a jurisdiction that allowed online poker. Tournament officials said some American participants relocated to Mexico or Canada to take part in the tournament.
The main event was narrowed to 38 players entering Saturday's final round. American Bryan Piccioli had the chip lead entering the final round but finished 23rd. Poker room seminole hard rock hollywood fl.
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It's certainly a bummer not having the usual World Series of Poker footage on ESPN this year. It's been a staple of Summer television for most of my life and watching these tournaments unfold online just doesn't offer even a fraction of the same entertainment for me.
The official in-person 2020 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas hasn't been rescheduled yet and with this year waning down they're running out of time. Next year seems likely (to me) at this point.
So we now have a few interesting tales of Bilzerian at the poker table, he still rarely plays publicly - although last year he did stream some online heads-up cash from Bill Perkins' account.
Most Money Won In Poker Tournament
The $5,000 buy-in Main Event of the World Series of Poker international series wrapped up on Saturday night with the top 4 finishers all taking home more than $1 million in prize money. With the typical World Series of Poker in Las Vegas postponed this year the action moved online and the World Series of Poker international series Main Event had a total prize pool of $27,559,500.
There were 5,802 buy-ins into the $5,000-entry Main Event. Notable entries included PSG star and Brazilian soccer phenom Neymar Jr. and former heavyweight boxing champion Riddick Bowe.
The final heads-up pairing came down to Bulgaria's Stoyan Madanzhiev against Wenling Gao of China. On the final hand of the Main Event, Stoyan Madanzhiev flopped a straight which took down Gao's pocket aces which is an absolutely brutal way to get knocked out heads-up. Looking down and seeing AA you think you are absolutely money and then your opponent flops a straight and poof, you're gone.
For his second-place finish, Wenling Gao won $2.7 million. Not bad. Stoyan Madanzhiev took home a record $3.9 million for first place, the ‘largest prize in online poker history'. American Tyler Rueger won $1.9 million for 3rd place and New Zealand's Thomas Ward brought home $1.35 million for his 4th place finish.
‘Poker Brat' Phil Hellmuth busted in 750th right before the money bubble. In total, 728 spots were paid out across the $27,559,500 prize pool. There were three Americans at the final table with the other two, Tyler Cornell and Sam Taylor, finishing 8th and 9th respectively for $328,305 and $230,395.
In the final hand, 2nd place finisher Wenling Gao got all his chips in with AcAd only to see her opponent (yes, her) call with 7d6h. At that moment he had his opponent completely dominated. But Bulgaria's Stoyan Madanzhiev miraculously flopped a 7-high straight and held on to win 1st place.
According to ESPN's Chalk, some American participants moved internationally for this event which also allowed them to buy-in multiple times in the early stages:
The international series was hosted on GGPoker.com after the coronavirus pandemic forced the traditional World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas to be postponed. There were 5,802 entries into the $5,000 buy-in main event, creating a $27.6 million prize pool, the largest in online poker history.
Players were allowed to buy in three times during the early rounds of the main event and were required to be physically located in a jurisdiction that allowed online poker. Tournament officials said some American participants relocated to Mexico or Canada to take part in the tournament.
The main event was narrowed to 38 players entering Saturday's final round. American Bryan Piccioli had the chip lead entering the final round but finished 23rd. Poker room seminole hard rock hollywood fl.
Most Money Won In Poker Slot Machines
It's certainly a bummer not having the usual World Series of Poker footage on ESPN this year. It's been a staple of Summer television for most of my life and watching these tournaments unfold online just doesn't offer even a fraction of the same entertainment for me.
The official in-person 2020 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas hasn't been rescheduled yet and with this year waning down they're running out of time. Next year seems likely (to me) at this point.
For more on this largest win in online poker history, you can head on over to ESPN's Chalk.