Adam Bilzerian
| Born | Adam J. Bilzerian 1983 (age 37–38) |
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| Alma mater | Vanderbilt University |
| Occupation | Professional poker player |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Parent(s) | |
| Relatives | Dan Bilzerian (brother) |
Adam J. Bilzerian (Armenian: Ադամ Պիլզերեան, born 1983) is an American-born Nevisian poker player and writer.
Early life[edit]
Bilzerian is the son of Armenian-American corporate takeover specialist Paul Bilzerian and Terri, grew up in Florida.[1][2] He has a brother, Dan Bilzerian.[3] He attended Gaither High School, where he represented his school in tennis.[4]
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On June 11, 2001, FBI agents raided the Bilzerian residence in Tampa, Florida, in relation to charges of market manipulation against Paul Bilzerian. A neighbour described the raid as 'pure intimidation'. Paul Bilzerian would be held in prison and was not permitted to attend his son's high school graduation. In the aftermath, Adam Bilzerian would question his dream of becoming an Army Green Beret; in press interviews, he asked, 'How can you go in and fight for your country when this is what they're doing to [your father]?'[2] Longer term, the incident proved to have a lasting effect on Bilzerian's worldview. He went on to study at Vanderbilt University, earning a B.A. in history. Here, he witnessed the 2004 United States presidential election that resulted in a second term for George W. Bush; Bilzerian saw this as a bad sign for the future of the freedoms of the Bill of Rights, and began to look into emigrating from the U.S. and establishing himself abroad. In 2007, he purchased a residence in Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the following year went on to become a citizen of the country, relinquishing U.S. citizenship in the process.[1] In 2018 he obtained Armenian citizenship.[5]
Poker career[edit]
Bilzerian came in 47th in the 2009 World Series of Poker, winning $138,568.[6][7] His brother Dan also participated in the tournament; their performance led Norman Chad to nickname them the 'Flying Bilzerian Brothers'.[3] He participated in the 2010 World Series of Poker as well.[8]
He played poker privately with baseball player Alex Rodriguez at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, and was reportedly surprised by Rodriguez' skill; he was quoted as stating, 'Alex busted everyone except me. I was like whoa, this guy can play. He had an amazing run. He won about $20,000 and left with everyone's money.'[9]
Works[edit]
- Bilzerian, Adam (2010). America: love it or leave it — so I left. Libertad Publications. ISBN9780615360645..
References[edit]
- ^ abAbrahamian, Atossa (February 12, 2012). 'Special Report: Passports … for a price'. Reuters. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
- ^ abBarancik, Scott (June 22, 2001). 'FBI agents raid Bilzerian home'. St. Petersburg Times. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
- ^ abKaplan, Michael (April 2010). 'Laak and Esfandiari shoot guns'. Poker Player Magazine. Archived from the original on August 28, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
- ^'Boys tennis roundup'. St. Petersburg Times. April 21, 2001. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
- ^''King Of Instagram' Gets Armenian Citizenship'. «Ազատ Եվրոպա/Ազատություն» ռադիոկայան. August 27, 2018.
- ^'Player profile: Adam Bilzerian'. Bluff Magazine. Archived from the original on January 18, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
- ^'Adam Bilzerian Eliminated in 47th Place ($138,568)'. Poker News. July 14, 2009. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
- ^'Bump in the Road for Bilzerian'. Poker News. July 10, 2010. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
- ^Feinsand, Mark; Dillon, Nancy (July 1, 2011). 'MLB probing A-Rod poker reports: Yankees' Alex Rodriguez denies being dealt in high-stakes games'. New York Daily News. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
You can’t choose your family, as the saying goes. But for Adam Bilzerian, brother of Dan Bilzerian and growing up in the same house, being the second son of the wealthy Armenian-American businessman Paul Bilzerian, he could choose his country.
Adam Bilzerian was a successful poker player, but after the FBI ‘raided’ Bilzerian Senior’s property in Florida under what one neighbor called pure intimidation, Adam Bilzerian started to think that he’d had enough of the supposed land of the free. So would it be Adam Bilzerian, poker player, or Adam Bilzerian, freedom fighter?
BILZERIAN BECOMES A NEVISIAN
Instead of sticking around in America, in 2007, Bilzerian decided to leave, bound for the tiny Barbadian island of St. Kitts and Nevis, eventually becoming a fully certificated Nevisian, and reneging his right to an American passport. Since then, Bilzerian has posted numerous creditable poker scores. Just who is Adam Bilzerian?
No-one knows Adam Bilzerian’s net worth exactly, but the younger Bilzerian has more live tournament results than his older, more Instagram famous brother Dan Bilzerian. Not only did Adam Bilzerian write and publish a book entitled America: Love It Or Leave It So I Leftabout his experiences of leaving behind his homeland of the U.S.A. after 24 years as a born and bred American citizen and Floridian, he wrote another, too. Published under the title America: Land of the Free, My Ass, it charts the constitutional anomalies that plague people to live at the behest of the government, or as Adam Bilzerian puts it: “This Is Not Your Founding Fathers’ United States”.
ADAM BILZERIAN AT THE FELT
While Bilzerian Junior is obviously an intelligent and thought-provoking person – and author – poker fans have always cherished his appearances at the felt. Bilzerian ran deep in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event, finishing an impressive $138,568, busting when he ran pocket tens into pocket kings with just six tables left in the biggest event on the poker calendar. That was the year Joe Cada won the Main Event, something the youngest-ever winner gloried in when he made a sensational deep run just this summer.
With both Bilzerian brothers involved in that event, it might have been easy to expect Adam Bilzerian to have played more, but as of December 2019, he has just $877,687 in live tournament results, ten cashes only, although five of these are from the World Series of Poker. Bilzerian’s biggest result was the $344,520 he won in 2014 in a $100,000-entry Super High Roller event which was eventually won by Dan Smith.
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Return to the scene of the crime. #IveysRoom@ARIAPoker With Adam Bilzerian. pic.twitter.com/cZjrd0sEEy
— Jennifer Tilly (@JenniferTilly) December 21, 2014
OTHER RESULTS AND A BIG COMPLIMENT FROM A SHORTSTOP
Adam Bilzerian also won $246,000 when he finished as runner-up to Andrew Lichtenberger in an ARIA High Roller event in 2015. Bilzerian’s sole recorded win was in the $10,300-entry Chinese Poker event at the 2013 WPT Five Diamond festival. With Chinese Poker now a big part of the poker landscape, maybe the younger Bilzerian brother could return to one of the Chinese Poker events at the WSOP at the Rio in 2020. His most recent cash at the live felt was back in 2016.
The former New York Yankees’ shortstop, Major League Baseball legend Alex Rodriguez once said of Bilzerian at the Bellagio, “Alex busted everyone except me. He had an amazing run. He won about $20,000 and left with everyone’s money.”
Clearly, Adam Bilzerian learned how to win from his father and how to be ruthless with it, as Dan Bilzerian himself has demonstrated. While many poker fans have wondered what might happen if Dan Bilzerian became a tournament player for a living, it was obvious from tracking his results that Adam Bilzerian had it in him to do just as well at the felt, if not better.
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WHERE NEXT FOR THE YOUNGEST BILZERIAN?
While he is still noted as both a poker player and private investor, Adam Bilzerian has disappeared off the poker map a little in the last few years, and by the looks of the photos that accompany his words back in November of last year when he wrote a blog discussing the ease with which he emigrated to St. Kitts & Nevis, it may not be too soon that he returns to the felt.
Adam Bilzerian would suit the smoldering tension of Poker After Dark, or maybe the intense competition of the U.S. Poker Open. That said, it’s ar likelier that we see him back at the World Series of Poker, and in 2020 you’ll be able to do so on PokerGO.
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