Billionaire Poker Players

[mackthefork]

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Bill Gates is known to play $3/$6 pr $4/$8 when in Vegas.

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I read that too somewhere. By my calculations in the 4/8 game: with a net worth of approximately $50 billion dollars, he has a bankroll of 6.25 billion BB. (Probably enough to cover himself for variance).

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No one who makes an operating system that bad can ever be a winning poker player, I'll let others elaborate. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Mack

[deadbody]

Has anyone mentioned that one fella?? Whats his name Bean??? Bond???

No it was Beal, Andy Beal. He's that rich banker what killed his wife.

Who me, naw I'm innocent Lawyer F***ed me.

[stigmata]

I heard on the grapevine that some billionaire poker player is going to take on Todd Brunson at Limit Hold 'em 100k/200k at the Wynn. I think his name was Randy Eel or something.

[Zele]

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I heard on the grapevine that some billionaire poker player is going to take on Todd Brunson at Limit Hold 'em 100k/200k at the Wynn. I think his name was Randy Eel or something.

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The player in question is Antwaan Randle El, who is not a poker player. Rumor has it billionaire poker player Andy Beal is backing him.

[Colonel Kataffy]

This thread is getting old, but would instantly be cool again if pkour would give it another post or two. So how 'bout it pkour, come on back.

[Regis]

Bill Gates.

And Andy Beal is a poker player.

[nincomepoop]

I think Million Dollar Man - Tedd Dibiase is one of the front runners of this "million dollar" bankroll conundrum . . . pure speculation though.




...let's not forget Andy Beal, was his name mentioned yet?

Who is Andy Beal?

[Riddick]

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There was a book about a guy who played 100k/200k with a billion dollars or something. Some texas banker.

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Are you talking about Doyle Brunson?

[jman220]

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OK...

1. Is their a (famous) poker player who has a BANKROLL of $1 million or more? NOT ANDY BEAL, HE IS NOT A POKER PLAYER

2. Surely there must be - the pros (like Ivey) play high stakes cash games with pots worth millions of dollars. The "rules" of poker would say that they therefore must have an adequate Bankroll of Billion dollars....?

3. There is about to be a $10m buy-in Sit n Go with 6 players (Ivey, Gus etc...) which backs up point 2.

4. The organisers of the $10m tourny plan to do a $25 million Sit n Go in 2006 and a $100m in 2007.

LINKS:

1. 1st Poker Billionaire

Liquid poker forum post about the $10m tourny

Any info would be appreciated. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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This article deals with the billionaire poker player phenomenon you discuss:

http://ap.pokerblogspotrec.org/earningp/billionaire1one1