Celebrities
Profiles of well-known gamblers whose results are on the record. Where the legend and the numbers disagree, we go with the numbers.
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- The Biker Bandit: Anthony Carleo's Bellagio Chip HeistIn 2010, Anthony Carleo entered the Bellagio's high-limit salon and walked out with $1.5 million in poker chips. His methods exposed vulnerabilities in physical security that persist today.
- Bryn Kenney: Inside the All-Time Poker Money LeaderHow does a player earn nearly $60 million and sustain it? Bryn Kenney reveals the feedback loops and incentive structures that separate the grinders from the elite.
- Phil Galfond: From Math Whiz to High-Stakes Poker EntrepreneurPhil Galfond won $5 million in cash games by age 25. Then he became an entrepreneur. Here is how he did both.
- Phil Ivey vs Crockfords: The 7.7M Pound Baccarat CaseIn 2012, Phil Ivey walked into a London casino and walked out with 7.7 million pounds in winnings. The casino refused to pay. The case that followed changed how casinos think about edge-sorting.
- Jack Binion and the Family Behind the World Series of PokerThe Binion family created the World Series of Poker in 1970. Jack Binion took it from a private game to a public institution. This is how that happened.
- Floyd Mayweather: Inside the Boxer's Massive Sports Betting SlipsFloyd Mayweather posts his betting slips on Instagram. Fifty-thousand-dollar bets on basketball games. Where does the psychology go when the amounts get this large?
- The MIT Blackjack Team: How Students Really Beat VegasThe superuser scandals at Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet revealed that cheating in online poker was not theoretical. It was actual, systematic, and vast.
- Erik Seidel: The Dancer Who Became a Poker Hall of FamerErik Seidel danced. Then he became one of the greatest poker players alive. He never stopped moving.
- Jamie Gold's $12 Million WSOP Main Event Win ExplainedIn 1992, Akio Kashiwagi challenged Donald Trump to the largest baccarat game in American history. It never finished.
- How The Sopranos Portrayed Illegal Sports BettingThe Sopranos captured mob culture with unflinching detail. Its portrayal of illegal sports betting operations became as iconic as Tony Soprano's therapy sessions.
- Phil Hellmuth: Inside the Poker Brat's 17 BraceletsRegulation depends on jurisdiction. Malta allows more than UKGC. Nevada more than online-only. Know where your operator is licensed.
- Kelly Sun: The Queen of Sorts Behind Ivey's Baccarat WinsYour edge in twenty dollar games is three dollars per hour. You move to one hundred dollar games. Suddenly the pressure is real. Two hundred dollar pots feel material. You become conservative.
