Dan Bilzerian, a person who claims to be among the many winningest gamers in personal, high-stakes money video games, has been signed as a model ambassador by on-line poker website GGPoker.
The signing follows offers with notables like Daniel Negreanu, who ended his 12-year function with PokerStars earlier than becoming a member of GGPoker, in addition to top-ranked gamers Fedor Holz, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, and Felipe Ramos.
GGPoker is hoping that Bilzerian will proceed to draw massive money video games to the location, which has turn out to be a spot frequented by many high-stakes gamers within the final yr.
BREAKING…
GGPoker</a> welcomes <a href="https://twitter.com/DanBilzerian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">
DanBilzerian as our model new ambassador.Stay tuned to all of our channels, over the subsequent 24 hours, to seek out out precisely what he’ll be getting as much as .
There’ll be one thing for EVERYONE!
https://t.co/EPk6XrlBcH#GGPoker pic.twitter.com/Bac5bT74Oq
— GGPoker – HOME OF ONLINE POKER‘S LARGEST PRIZEPOOL (@GGPoker) December 3, 2020
In addition to poker, Bilzerian is understood for being a social media influencer. His not-safe-for-work social media pages have earned him the nickname, the ‘King of Instagram.’ The 39-year-old has practically 33 million followers on the platform, the place he’s identified for displaying off his unique travels, assortment of weapons, stacks of money, and seemingly countless stream of half-naked ladies.
Bilzerian has been concerned in quite a few prop bets through the years with different members of the poker group, most notably when he gained practically $1 million by biking from Las Vegas to Los Angeles in lower than two days. He even employed Lance Armstrong to assist him practice for the feat.
He has additionally appeared in a handful of films, a few of which he helped finance, together with Lone Survivor, Extraction, War Dogs, and Olympus Has Fallen. He additionally owns an organization that sells e-cigarettes and CBD oils.
Bilzerian has additionally had greater than his justifiable share of authorized points. He was sued for $1 million by a mannequin after a brawl in a Miami nightclub, and was later sued by a porn actress after he threw her off the roof of a home and right into a pool. Later that yr, he was arrested for bomb-making fees, and needed to launch a public service announcement to keep away from jail time.
The information of his signing was polarizing, to say the least.
GGPoker making all of the strikes! When it involves poker and mainstream attain, there isn’t an even bigger influencer on the planet.
Welcome aboard @DanBilzerian.
Stay tuned for some sick promotions… https://t.co/ReEZ7zUtnd
— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) December 3, 2020
Dan Bilzerian turning into a GG poker ambassador is the equal of me turning into an envoy for GQ
— Doug “Truck Driver” Polk (@DougPolkVids) December 3, 2020
Hot on the heels of
DanBilzerian</a> Who should <a href="https://twitter.com/GGPoker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">
GGPoker signal as their subsequent ambassador?Wrong solutions solely
— Max Silver (@max_silver) December 3, 2020
Yuck.
This man’s viewers is a bunch of poisonous losers – actually the worst sort we may add to our group.
Feels further gross given how he treats ladies like literal props.
Super disappointing GG, lot of us liked what you’d been doing.
— Vanessa Kade (@VanessaKade) December 3, 2020