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Originally Posted by Privateworld
Never seen Dan Blizerian play a hand of poker anywhere ever and I'm not the only one....I've yet to talk to one person that's played with him. Just figured it was a cover for something....
...Toby split the scene after the trincher, Mosseri,smith iMolly Bloom indictment...
i think its obvious to most people in the poker scene that bilzerian is just playing the pro poker card (pun definitely intended) to mask the source of his $$$, which clearly came from his father. whats he gonna do, come right out and say "yea the $100mm i have has been completely laundered and originated from the money my dad stole/cheated people out of when he was a corporate takeover specialist in the 80s. please, FBI/IRS, dont indict me!" seems to me that every few months he makes a trip to aria or bellagio, wires in a few million and gets a few racks of cranberries and 100k chips, puts them on a table and snaps a few pics for instagram/twitter, posts them and then racks up after a few minutes. unlikely he even plays at all....if he does he probably only plays a few hands. also likely does all this at like 6-7am, or at a time when the traffic is lowest in the poker room at whatever casino hes at, so to avoid exposure.
as for mollys book...i bought it. it was a good read truth be told, but you can tell there are a lot of exaggerations and inaccuracies in there. something tells me molly is pissed at a few people so she took liberties as far as falsifying or sensationalizing information about those huge games and what went down in them. she seems to have it out for toby in the book. if i recall correctly she lambasted him numerous times, claiming he charged money for use of his shuffle machine, and also acted like a total ******* to everybody. while its possible some of that is true, i couldnt shake the feeling that she wanted to get back at people she didnt like so she made some **** up about them in the book to sully their images. despite all that, the book is still worth reading. pretty entertaining.
privateworld is kind of like the 2+2 version of
Molly's Game in many ways....theres likely a lot of factual information, but probably also some second hand info that isnt being retold accurately, and a fair bit of slanderous material that is written to simply make people look bad to the public. whether those people deserve it or not is debatable, however, and would depend on individual opinions of their character.