He founded The Gores Group, a private equity firm.Ī decade ago, Gores was caught up in the fallout from “Molly’s Game.” Some might recall that hedge fund manager Brad Ruderman participated in underground games in the late 2000s using money from defrauded investors in a $25 million Ponzi scheme, and some of that money was won by poker players. Gores is a 68-year-old Israeli billionaire who made much of his fortune through leveraged buyouts of technology firms. Dan Bilzerian and Alec Gores battling as shown in the new book. Sources have told PokerNews that Bilzerian has secured the funds for the match and is now waiting on his opponent to do the same. And so he’s challenged me twice, so I think we might play for $100 million.” “And then he was like, ‘I don’t wanna play you unless it’s for at least $50 million.’ I was like, ‘I’ll wire in $50 million to the Aria in 10 days if you wanna play, and we can televise it if you want. “I (said to Alec) I’ll play you for $25 million at the Aria if you wanna wire money over,” the social media icon continued. It would be the biggest poker game ever played.' “He’s like, ‘I wanna play you heads-up, let’s see who has the bigger balls for $25 million apiece.”īilzerian, as he explains, responded to the text conversation by informing “Alec,” whose full name wasn’t disclosed on the podcast but was in the book, of the profits from their previous sessions. “That guy Alec, he saw my podcast and he text me, I said I beat him for like $40-$50 million, and he’s like, ‘oh, the number wasn’t that high,’” Bilzerian said on the podcast. This would likely be the biggest heads-up match ever.

If the match takes place as Bilzerian said on the Impaulsive podcast-and our sources have confirmed-it will be for $100,000,000 - $50 million each. Try It Here $100M Heads-Up Challenged Between Dan Bilzerian and Alec Gores?

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