Ever since the 2021 WSOP, rumor has it that Dan Bilzerian is going to face billionaire Alec Gores at the poker table. Both players would put 50 million on the table to poker for a total of $ 100 million. Alec gore is a 69 - year-old billionaire who heads an investment company. The billionaire is about to take over the Denver Broncos along with two business partners NFL club.
Alec Gores is an avid poker player who regularly appears in high-roller cash games. He appeared in Molly's Game, a high stakes poker game with celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. This poker game brought a lot of controversy not much later when a manager of an investment fund turned out to have played with money earned in a pyramid scheme. Brad Ruderman lost tons at that poker table which ultimately turned out to be obtained from dishonest activities. Ruderman lost $445,000 to Alec Gore. In the courtroom, the judge ruled that Alec Gore should return the money. Which Alec ended up doing without morren. However, other players made a deal that did not require them to give all their winnings back to the victim.
It won't be the first time Bilzerian and Gores have sat down together at a table. In his autobiography, Dan Bilzerian states that they have already played a game of poker at the billionaire's home in Bel Air. Here the two played a cash game with blinds of $2000 / $4000. Bilzerian said he won $1.6 million that night. Which may have been a nice taste for the $100 million cash game that is rumored to be in the works.
Dan Bilzerian States in his own podcast about the battle with Gores: “that guy Alec [Gores], he saw my podcast and he texted me, I said I beat him for about $ 40- $ 50 million, and he said,’oh, the amount wasn't that high,’” Bilzerian said on the website podcasts. "He said ‘' I want to play heads-up against you, let's see who has the biggest balls for $ 25 million apiece."After which Bilzerian indicated to increase the amount to $50 million dollars per person. When and whether this poker match will ever take place is still unclear.
