LIFE PATH OF DAN BILZERIAN
Dan Bilzerian was born in Tampa, Florida, to Paul Bilzerian and Terri Steffen, and has a brother, Adam. He claims that half of the Bilzerian family were killed during the Armenian Genocide. His father, who is of Armenian descent,[12][13] was a successful corporate raider on Wall Street and set up large trust funds for both of his sons.
A four-year Navy veteran, Bilzerian entered the Navy SEAL training program in 2000. After several attempts, he did not graduate the program. The reporter who conducted the interview of Bilzerian for SOFREP.com confirmed his participation in the SEAL program and stated that according to his research Bilzerian was dropped "for a safety violation on the shooting range". After his military career, Bilzerian enrolled at the University of Florida, majoring in Business and Criminology.
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 finished in 180th place and won $36,626. 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 enthusiast and Supreme Court LitigatorTom Goldstein for a wager of $385,000 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, with Bilzerian racing a 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, were 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 Alex 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.
Acting
Bilzerian appeared as a stuntman in the 2013 film Olympus Has Fallen and as Sr. Chief Healy in the 2013 film Lone Survivor. The following year he appeared in the films The Other Woman, The Equalizer and Cat Run 2. Bilzerian will appear in the 2016 Bruce Willis film Extraction.
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