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Dangerous life of Instagram's playboy king: Multimillionaire poker star's machismo-fueled exploits of cash, cars, girls and guns... but high-stakes have given him THREE heart conditions- Los Angeles-based poker player Dan Bilzerian, 32, describes himself as an 'actor/astronaut/a**hole' to his 100,000 Instagram followers
- His fans regularly beg to switch his lavish life for theirs
- He recently posted photos of a seal and a topless blonde in a pool, two luxury sports cars with the plates 'SUCK IT' and 'MR GOAT' and a table full of semi-automatic weapons
- However, his wild lifestyle have had serious repercussions, including a double heart attack aged 25 and a pulmonary embolism two years ago
- Bilzerian has won multiple poker tournaments, his most successful being the 2009 World Series of Poker
- He is also co-founder of online poker room, Victory Poker bringing his net worth to around $100 million
By HELEN POW
PUBLISHED: 21:39, 2 December 2013 | UPDATED: 02:46, 3 December 2013
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A multimillionaire poker star has been dubbed Instagram's playboy king after chronicling blow-by-blow his extravagant, machismo-fueled life of near-naked women, sportscars and guns.
Los Angeles-based Dan Bilzerian describes himself as an 'actor/astronaut/a**hole' to his more than 100,000 Instagram followers who appear to live vicariously through the beefy, bearded 32-year-old, regularly begging in comments to trade his lavish life for theirs.
Bilzerian is reportedly worth $100 million, making the bulk of his cash as a high-stakes gambler having developed his skills as a student at the University of South Florida. However, his risky lifestyle has resulted in some serious repercussions, including a double heart attack and a pulmonary embolism.
Rich: The 32-year-old multimillionaire poker star said in the caption to this picture: 'When I was a kid I never wanted to be classy, I just wanted to be rich
Bilzerian's Instagram feed includes a recent picture of a seal and a topless blonde woman in a swimming pool, with the caption: 'My buddy actually had a seal brought to the house and put in the pool haha.'
Another photo shows two luxury cars in the garage of his LA mansion with the comment: 'While I'm more of a t*t guy, I do appreciate a nice a**...' The vehicles are adorned with personalized plates that read 'SUCK IT' and 'MR GOAT' - his other favored moniker.
Another picture of more than a dozen semi-automatic weapons on a table has the caption: 'My greatest fear is that someone will break in & I won't be able to decide what #gun to shoot them with.'
In an interview with The Daily Dot, the Tamba Bay native who does some acting on the side said his life has always been high-risk.
His father, Paul Bilzerian, a former corporate takeover artist, was sentenced to four years in jail and given a $1.5 million fine in 1989.
'I didn't get to enjoy much of it,' Bilzerian said of his childhood.
He said he wasn't 'super-cool' in high school and went to both a military boarding school and to Utah to live with Mormons for a year.
In senior year, he ended up in jail for having a machine gun in the trunk of his car. But he managed to get his GED.
The gun-rights advocate then joined the military and made it 99 per cent through Navy SEAL training, he said. But two days before graduation he was thrown out for calling an officer a 'p****.'
'When he did my peer eval, (the officer) said I was only out for myself,' he said.
Bilzerian said he loved his time at the University of South Florida, which is where he started playing poker.
'I went broke after sophomore year, gambled away all my money, sold some guns, turned $750 into $10,000, flew to Vegas, turned 10 thou into $187,000, went back to school, played better,' he explained to The Daily Dot.
He said the turning point was losing everything.
'I respected the money. You have to go broke to respect the money.'
He has since won multiple tournaments, his most successful being the 2009 World Series of Poker. He is also co-founder of online poker room, Victory Poker.
Bilzerian described betting on everything in life as his essential condition but he hasn't always won. His health, in particular has suffered as a result of his high-flying lifestyle.
When he was 25, Bilzerian went on a 'four-day, very active snowboarding trip - traveling, not sleeping, hanging with friends, doing all kinds of ...' his PR representative Steve Honig told the website, trailing off. It ended in a double heart attack.
'If you're familiar with his lifestyle, he's a bit of a daredevil. His body was absolutely overloaded after four days, and the heart condition happened.'
In August 2011, Bilzerian flew between Maui and Las Vegas twice in a three-day period to play around-the-clock poker and his heart gave out again. It turned out to be a pulmonary embolism not a heart attack, however.
ow, Honig said Bilzerian is in perfect health while seemingly continuing to make the mega-bucks and enjoy spending them. Though he said the tournaments are harder to win these days, because amateur players put in a lot more hours and are perform better than they used to.
But Bilzerian said he wants to tidy up his badboy image, and is attempting to rebrand himself as 'the gentleman of poker.'
His efforts have involved giving away $100,000 of the money he's won in what he's calling the Robin Hood Project. So far he's helped Typhoon Haiyan victims, a couple who adopted four sick, underprivileged kids and a third woman who lost all her limbs.
But the Instagram pictures and the over-the-top lifestyle they represent continue, pleasing the fans who genuinely think of the money man as a king.
'I've seen a lot of people showing the good life on instagram but you sir are king,' Bilzerian follower danny_raf commented on a recent post.
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Ronda on her meds appearing semi normal <br>
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lol comical how Nick thinks Nate is about to mention him and then Nate says "Richard Perez" so Nick quickly looks away
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Wow! Ben Askren signs with One FC! Is now joining Evolve fight team!Comment -
Also hilarious walking away from the talk us through the fight shit. yeah yeah i won the fight..dropping the mic on anik. Vintage after the fight douchebag behaviour a la phil baroniComment -
ha yeah, great big custard pie to Anik's face!Comment -
lol McGregor and Barnatt beefing now! Funny response by Conor on twitter... "BIGSLOWINBRED"
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Conor McGregor, according to Luke Barnatt, is not who he appears to be thanks to social media manipulation.
Conor McGregor has 78,430 followers and counting on Twitter.
And in today's social day and age where popularity and fame can be gauged by how many "Likes" on Facebook or "Followers" one has on Twitter, that's a very impressive tally.
But, according to Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight up-and-comer, Luke Barnatt, that number is deceiving because the actual amount of real people who follow "Notorious" is much lower. Indeed, Barnatt alleges that the Irishman's management team, Paradigm Sports Management, has found a creative way to artificially inflate his status.
He explains (via "The MMA Hour"):"Paradigm is the management company that I believe that Conor McGregor is under. They have this interesting concept that they believe that your following is depicted by how many people you have on Twitter, so your whole MMA following, if you've got followers on Twitter, then obviously you're a big deal, and they find that easier to go out and get sponsorships and make you look important. So they employ this thing called Tweetbot. You pay a certain amount of money, and you get these fake followers. So they're built and they're made by a computer, and they follow certain people. If you go through the followers, the Paradigm guys, not all of them but some of them, you'll find these rival accounts that make up a lot of the percentage for people who is following. Yeah, it makes them look like they're a big deal, it makes them look like they've got lots of fans, and it makes them look important."Holding his own with 12,847 followers, Barnatt says he isn't jealous of McGregor and actually thinks he's a cool guy. It's just the fact that "Notorious" is calling out people who are coming off losses and not in his division that irritates him.
His words:"I'm not jealous of Conor, he's a cool guy. I've met him a few times. But, I just think if you want to be fake and you pretend like you're a big deal by getting all of these followers then calling out people like Diego Sanchez is weak, and things like that start to irritate me. If you're going to call somebody out, for one you call somebody out in your own weight division, and number two, you call somebody out who is coming off of a win. You don't call somebody out who's a loser. What's the point in that? It don't make much sense in my eyes."
Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA4h
Help a TUF reject today. Give this 'BigSlowInbred' a like. He needs your help. I've more support taking a dump.
Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA2 Dec
@NomsDempsey @LukeBarnatt What? Hey, Frankenstein with a pulse, maybe if you actually won TUF it would be different for you.Last edited by Vaughany; 12-04-13, 09:07 AM.Comment -
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- Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA26 Nov
@DiegoSanchezUFC Only reason you haven't been cut 2 Bellator, with the other has-beens, is because you defend shots with your nose. 0-4 #CUT
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Diego Sanchez UFC @DiegoSanchezUFC26 Nov
@TheNotoriousMMA would you even be ready for dallas in march ?
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Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA26 Nov
@DiegoSanchezUFC My comeback fight will be Dublin next year. Its a done deal. McGregor Vs Sanchez. Ireland Vs Mexico. @danawhite Lets do it.
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- Diego Sanchez UFC @DiegoSanchezUFC26 Nov
@TheNotoriousMMA @danawhite I'm up next in Dallas Texas in March let me know if you want to get #KTFO ? Your all talk #challengeisout
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- Diego Sanchez UFC @DiegoSanchezUFC26 Nov
@TheNotoriousMMA @danawhite see talks shit but when the challenge is laid out he crawls back into his little shell. #dallas #letsdoit
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- Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA27 Nov
@DiegoSanchezUFC @danawhite You brain dead, stuttering fool. Read the fine print. And put your bib on so you don't drool on my tweets.
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Chalk parlay of the year!
214581445-1 12/6/13 1:39pm $200.00 $218.87 Pending 4 Team Parlay Pending 12/6/13 10:00pm Props Fighting 1052 Fight won't start round 5 -495* vs Hunt/Silva starts round 5 Pending 12/6/13 9:00pm Props Fighting 1204 Fight won't go 3 round distance -600* vs Perosh/Bader goes 3 round distance Pending 12/6/13 8:30pm Props Fighting 1304 Fight won't go 3 round distance -600* vs Palelei/Barry goes 3 round distance Pending 12/28/13 11:00pm Props Fighting 1139 Rousey wins by submission -357* vs Any other result Comment -
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Vaughany what is your parlay/who are you on in the mma card tonight if you don't mind me asking....can't view the image you posted...best of luckLast edited by ctny85; 12-06-13, 07:15 PM.Comment -
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Hah, I watched that video repeat like three times (didn't read the comment) and couldn't figure out what the big deal was. Then my eye catches that girl stroking the beard and I knew in an instant... mad props to whoever caught that. Hilarious.Comment -
Fuuckin Bader cant even finish hippo and hurt his hand in first round
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Some comical moments in this!... "GOODAAYYY MAAATE"!
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"So I responded, I call him the fattest, slowest, sloppiest martial artist I've ever laid eyes on," McGregor said. "I told him I'd go to 170, I'd whup his fat ass easy. ... He was the one who started about me. I gave my opinion on the Top 10. Nobody else. I had my eyes up on the top 10. I ignored what Diego was saying on the leadup to the Holloway fight. Then I said OK, I'll push the top 10 aside and I'll go after Diego Sanchez a little bit."Comment -
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