Although a handful of Bilzerian interviews are out there (with Larry King and Joe Rogan, to name the two substantial ones), the man very rarely sits down with print publications. The opportunity to interview a 21st-century phenomenon was simply too good to pass up. I flew to Vegas to explore the myth, and meet the man behind it. To his detractors – harder to quantify but unquestionably numerous – Bilzerian is an affront, a shameless flaunter of wealth and women even, some claim, a fraud. To his followers (22.6m on Instagram alone – more than Donald Trump and Barack Obama combined) Bilzerian is an inspiration, even a hero the rootin’, tootin’, red-blooded antidote to a world of straitjackets and snowflakes. (Bilzerian posted 31 hours $250,000 of the pot came from a friend who bet against his survival.)Įither you know this already or you’ve just fired up Google. (She acquiesced he missed.) How he recently won a reported $1.2m for cycling from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in less than 48 hours. How he incurred a lawsuit after throwing a porn star off the roof of his house into a swimming pool for a Hustler photoshoot. How he survived two heart attacks aged 25 following a not-quite-lethal combination of cocaine, strippers and Viagra. The many, many exploits of Dan Bilzerian, aged 36, are public domain, so we will mention them only fleetingly. Then you notice your harness is unstrapped. Any takers?” he tweeted) who attempted to complete US Navy SEALS boot camp with a broken leg and who once lost more than $2m on a coin toss – and you realise self-preservation is not one of his dominant traits. But then you remember this is the man who prematurely checked himself out of hospital following a pulmonary embolism (“I’ll bet a million dollars I don’t die. So you’re rollicking through the Nevada desert in a $150k Jimco buggy, and each bump is enough to cause whiplash because you’re nudging 85kph, and you swerve off the track, nearly tip over, and you assure yourself you’ll be OK because your driver is poker millionaire and notorious hedonist Dan Bilzerian, and surely someone who takes so much out of life isn’t about to give it all up.
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