In 2011, Dan and ten other celebrities, including Tobey Maguire and Nick Cassavetes, were asked to pay back their winnings they'd won against Ponzi scheme artist Bradley Ruderman after Ruderman was sentenced to prison. Though his official career winnings at sanctioned events are relatively small, he claims to have won millions, and even tens of millions, in private events. Today Dan is reputed to be a very good poker player. This would turn out to be his most successful officially sanctioned poker event. He finished in 180th place at the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event. In 2009, at the age of 29, Dan started playing poker professionally. After leaving the Navy, Dan enrolled at the University of Florida where he majored in Criminology and Business. The disagreement reportedly involved a safety violation on the gun range. In 2000, Bilzerian went on to undergo SEAL training, and completed two hell weeks, but he was kicked out of the program a few weeks before graduation after having a disagreement with one of his administrators. Dan Bilzerian's Early Careerĭan joined the Navy in 1999. It's unclear how much of these funds have contributed to Dan's present-day opulent lifestyle or whether any of those funds were potentially ill-gotten in Paul's alleged tax and security frauds. Before their father was indicted, he reportedly set up trust funds for both Dan and Adam. This house was foreclosed on in 2016 after Paul relocated to the Caribbean to escape arrest. At their peak, the family lived in the largest home in Tampa, a 28,000 square foot mansion with 10 bedrooms. Dan has a brother named Adam who is a fellow poker player. The elder Bilzerian declared bankruptcy in 2001 claiming just $15,000 in assets and more than $140 million worth of debt. Unfortunately, in 1988 Paul was indicted for tax and security fraud. By the time Paul Bilzerian was 36 years old he had already earned a self-made $40 million fortune. Dan is of Armenian descent through his father. Dan's father, Paul Bilzerian, was a prominent private equity/corporate takeover specialist in the 1980s.

Dan Bilzerian was born in Tampa Bay, Florida on December 7, 1980.

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