Adam Bilzerian is an American-born Nevis-born poker player and author, and the son of convicted felon and takeover expert Paul Bilzerian.
Wiki/Biography
Adam J. Bilzerian was born in 1983 (37 years old in 2020) in Tampa, Florida. He attended Gaither High School in Hillsborough County, Florida, where he played for the school’s tennis team. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 11″
Eye Color: Brown
Hair color: Brown
Family and Race
He is of Armenian descent, and his ancestors came to the United States in the 20th century after surviving the Armenian Genocide (1914-1923), the mass killing of ethnic Armenians in Turkey and neighboring territories by the Ottoman government during World War I.
Parents and siblings
He is the son of acquisition expert, entrepreneur and felon Paul Bilzerian and Terri Steffen. He has a brother named Dan Bilzerian who is a poker player and social media influencer.
Adam Bilzerian’s parents
Adam Bilzerian with his parents and brothers
wife and children
He is married to Audrey Bilzerian. He has two sons, Everett Bilzerian and Ares Bilzerian (born January 2013).
Adam Bilzerian and family
Profession
He has participated in various online and private games and has won many of them. One of his most famous private games was a game he played with baseball player Alex Rodriguez at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Adam was amazed at Alex’s skills and said,
Alex knocked everybody out except me. I was like, wow, this guy is really good. He was doing really well. He won about $20,000 and took everybody’s money.”
In 2009, he participated in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) with his brother and finished 47th for $138,568. American columnist Norman Chad, who witnessed the brothers’ superb skills, nicknamed them the “Flying Bilzer Brothers”. In the same year, he played Chinese Poker at the Bellagio, bought in $10,000+300, and won the championship with a prize of $47,900. He also participated in the WSOP in 2010, 2015 and 2016. In 2013, he finished 13th in the $10,000+400 No-Limit Texas Hold’em World Poker Tour Main Event at the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas, with a prize of $51,158.
Adam Bilzerian plays poker
In 2010, he wrote his first book, America: Love It or Leave It – So I Left, published by Libertad Publications.
He has written two other books: America: Land of the Free (2011) and Empty America (2011).
Facts/Trivia
- In June 2001, FBI agents raided the Bilzerian home in Tampa, Florida, charging Paul Bilzerian with market manipulation, which a neighbor called “pure intimidation.” Four months after Paul’s arrest, his wife, Adam’s mother, Terri Steffen, filed more than 1,000 pages of documents with the court and asked Bilzerian to take two days off to attend Adam’s high school graduation, but the request was denied.
- In an interview, he questioned whether he could fulfill his dream of becoming an Army Green Beret, saying,
How can you go and fight for your country when they do that? [your father]”‘ah?’
- His father’s arrest and what happened to his family made him politically aware as he grew up. The 2004 US presidential election, which resulted in the re-election of George W. Bush, was seen as a bad omen for the future freedoms of the American Bill of Rights and he decided to emigrate. In 2007, he bought a home in St. Kitts and Nevis and a year later, he became a citizen of the country through “citizenship by investment” and renounced his US citizenship; he was one of 231 Americans who renounced their citizenship that year. Speaking about this in an interview, he said:
When George W. Bush got elected the second time, I felt like the country was going to go into such a slump. They were eliminating freedoms and restricting the Bill of Rights. It was going to be hard to keep yourself out of trouble. If the IRS thought you did something wrong and audited you, they would make your life a nightmare… They would crush you.”
Adam Bilzerian holding his St. Kitts and Nevis passport
- In 2018, Adam and his brother Dan Bilzerian received Armenian citizenship.
- He ranks 1,120th on the U.S. all-time money list, 151st on the Nevada all-time money list, and 570th in popularity.
- He loves dogs very much and has a pet dog named “Chloe”.
Adam Bilzerian and his pets
- In 2020, during Azerbaijan’s attack on the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Adam, along with his father and brother, donated $250,000 to the Hayastan All-Armenia Fund, which is currently raising funds to support Artsakh’s attack.
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