Billionaire Poker Players

[pkour]

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]

[RiverFenix]

Andy Beal

[RikaKazak]

Lots of live "pros" brag to being under bankrolled and say they can just get the money from somewhere else if they need it. Mike Matusow refinances his house (worth 300-350K as a "reserve") Daniel Negraneau has one time said he played 40-80 limit on a $3,200 bankroll (yeah, nuts imo) Others such as Barry Greinstein have been in debt as much as a million dollars less than 5 years ago.

In my opinion, the truely high stakes players have a lot of gamble in them and have very poor bankroll management. Although there is an arguement for if they do ever go broke, they'll have no problem finding stakers so it's really impossible for them to go broke. For instance if my poker coach ever went broke, I would send him $20K as soon as he wanted it.

And yes, I bet there are billionaire poker players, fish and sharks alike.

[pkour]

NOT ANDY BEAL, HE IS NOT A POKER PLAYER

[DarthIgnurnt]

Bill Gates.

Oh, also Andy Beal.

[cwsiggy]

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No way. At 4000-8000 an adequate bankroll is more like $4 million. The biggest roll I've heard of is Phil Ivey's, and that was $8 million.

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There is no way Ivey's roll is "only" 8 million. More like 20-40 million.

[Ness]

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No way. At 4000-8000 an adequate bankroll is more like $4 million. The biggest roll I've heard of is Phil Ivey's, and that was $8 million.

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There is no way Ivey's roll is "only" 8 million. More like 20-40 million.

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Yeah, reasonably good sources have put his role at around 25M. Chaus roll is/was [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] allegedly around the same size.

[Quicksilvre]

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No way. At 4000-8000 an adequate bankroll is more like $4 million. The biggest roll I've heard of is Phil Ivey's, and that was $8 million.

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There is no way Ivey's roll is "only" 8 million. More like 20-40 million.

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5000BBs? Sounds like a lot to me.

Admittedly I don't remember where I got $8 million from, so I could be wrong, but much more than that seems incredible.

[captZEEbo]

what's the previous biggest buyin for a sng? Biggest one I've seen browswing through hendon mob was 125k stud with larry flynt and a more recent one 120k sng

[Army Eye]

lol.. I don't think a $125k tourney was a sit-n-go