Los Angeles-based Dan Bilzerian, 32, describes himself as an "actor/astronaut/a**hole" to his more than 100,000 Instagram followers.
Bilzerian is reportedly worth $100 million, making the bulk of his cash as a high-stakes gambler having developed his skills as a student at the University of South Florida. However, his risky lifestyle has resulted in some serious repercussions, including a double heart attack and a pulmonary embolism.
The 32-year-old multimillionaire poker star said in the caption to this picture: "When I was a kid I never wanted to be classy, I just wanted to be rich"
Bilzerian's Instagram feed includes a recent picture of a seal and a topless blonde woman in a swimming pool, with the caption: "My buddy actually had a seal brought to the house and put in the pool haha."
The playboy regularly posts pictures, like this, of piles of money
Another photo shows two luxury cars in the garage of his LA mansion with the comment: "While I'm more of a t*t guy, I do appreciate a nice a**..." The vehicles are adorned with personalized plates that read 'SUCK IT' and 'MR GOAT' - his other favored moniker.
Another picture of more than a dozen semi-automatic weapons on a table has the caption: "My greatest fear is that someone will break in & I won't be able to decide what #gun to shoot them with."
Life has always been high-risk to Bilzerian. His father, Paul Bilzerian, a former corporate takeover artist, was sentenced to four years in jail and given a $1.5 million fine in 1989.
Bilzerian, right, was training to be a Navy SEAL before he was kicked out for swearing at an officer
"I didn't get to enjoy much of it," Bilzerian said of his childhood. He said he wasn't "super-cool" in high school and went to both a military boarding school and to Utah to live with Mormons for a year. In senior year, he ended up in jail for having a machine gun in the trunk of his car. But he managed to get his GED.
The gun-rights advocate then joined the military and made it 99 per cent through Navy SEAL training, he said. But two days before graduation he was thrown out for insulting an officer.
Bilzerian said he loved his time at the University of South Florida, which is where he started playing poker. "I went broke after sophomore year, gambled away all my money, sold some guns, turned $750 into $10,000, flew to Vegas, turned 10 thou into $187,000, went back to school, played better," he explained.
He said the turning point was losing everything: "I respected the money. You have to go broke to respect the money."
He has since won multiple tournaments and co-founded online poker room.
Bilzerian described betting on everything in life as his essential condition but he hasn't always won. His health, in particular has suffered as a result of his high-flying lifestyle.
When he was 25, Bilzerian went on a "four-day, very active snowboarding trip - traveling, not sleeping, hanging with friends," doing all kinds stuff. It ended in a double heart attack.
In August 2011, Bilzerian flew between Maui and Las Vegas twice in a three-day period to play around-the-clock poker and his heart gave out again. It turned out to be a pulmonary embolism not a heart attack, however.
He wrote: "Bought these sexy twins for the duck hunt in December #onesnotenough"
Now, Bilzerian is in perfect health while seemingly continuing to make money and enjoy spending them. However, Bilzerian said he wants to tidy up his badboy image, and is attempting to rebrand himself as "the gentleman of poker."
His efforts have involved giving away $100,000 of the money he's won in what he's calling the Robin Hood Project. So far he's helped Typhoon Haiyan victims, a couple who adopted four sick, underprivileged kids, and a third woman who lost all her limbs.
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