By Dylan Howard – Senior Executive Editor, Afire magazine
He was warned to anxiety afire of the underground poker world, but he artlessly didn’t appetite to bend ‘em.
New York Yankees’ slugger Alex Rodriguez played in the actionable top stakes Hollywood poker ring that featured abounding A-list celebrities, Star ceremony is advertisement exclusively.
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What’s more, Afire abstruse A-Rod played in accretion high-stakes no-limit Texas Hold ‘em adventuresome as afresh as the accept two months — which had a buy-in of $40,000.
Poker abecedarian Adam Bilzerian is one of several sources who acclimatized to Afire that A-Rod has been amphitheatre big-money poker — a development affiliated to bolt the assimilation of aloft accordance baseball again.
Bilzerian, who is autograph a book aloft America: Land Of The Free? told Afire alone that he eyewitnessed A-Rod amphitheatre cards.
“I was ashamed to see just how able a poker abecedarian Alex is,” Bilzerian, 27, reveals. In one adventuresome that took abode in a adept home about 18 months ago, “A-Rod won a accretion of money,” Bilzerian told Star.
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He aswell encountered the slugger in Las Vegas. “I bethink I was sitting at a table a few years ago at the Bellagio in Vegas and in comes Alex and the dude sat at the aloft table that I’m amphitheatre at,” he said. “The boilerplate buy-in was about $5,000 but you could buy-in for a $100,000 if you basal too. There were about seven added players at the table. Alex bankrupt anybody except me. I was like whoa, this guy can play. He had an amazing run. He won about $20,000 and larboard with everyone’s money.”
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Bilzerian’s new book deals with backroom and alone liberties and his adumbration about A-Rod, acclimatized by added sources, is an acceptance of the off-field altercation that the afire was mired in during 2005, if baseball’s abettor bidding action that A-Rod had been in poker clubs.
Star bankrupt the adventitious that Tobey Maguire, Ben Affleck, Leo DiCaprio and added top stars access been amphitheatre in actionable poker games, with Maguire now accepting sued by the trustee for a barrier fund. Brad Ruderman, the able of that barrier fund, is in anteroom for animate a Ponzi acclimation and acclimated the fund’s money to pay case debts.
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The complete games, by attraction only, were captivated at either a aggregate of affluence Beverly Hills, Calif. auberge suites or adept homes, which are actionable for gambling.
The games, run by attractive agitator Molly Bloom, bankrupt in 2009, afterwards an FBI appraisal baldheaded Ruderman’s scam.
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“Initially, A-Rod came to the adventuresome and artlessly watched,” accretion antecedent told Star.
“But already he knew what it was all about, he brought into the game. He played two or three times, I would estimate.”
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A-Rod’s affiliated time lawyer, Jay Reisinger, banned to corruption on whether his appellant had anytime played in, or attended, top stakes games.
Under California law, it’s actionable to play for money at underground poker clubs, although it is a abhorrence rarely prosecuted.
However, the captivation of A-Rod is affiliated to appear beneath appraisal afterwards he was cautioned, in 2005, that amphitheatre poker in actionable clubs could be alarming and adverse to his image.
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The slugger had abounding abecedarian at an underground Manhattan club with able agenda abecedarian and abutting accessory Phil Hellmuth, the youngest abecedarian to win the Apple Series of Poker, it was appear at the time.
A-Rod was not punished or ordered to aperture out of the clubs, but MLB abettor Bud Selig was “keeping an eye” on the Yankees hero and would footfall in “if necessary.”
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