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February 15th, 2021 | Last updated on February 15th, 2021

Home » Poker News » GGPoker Partners with FLIP and Byrne but Keeps Bilzerian

GGPoker was on the rise in 2019 and 2020. The online poker site made numerous high-profile signings, not the least of which was Daniel Negreanu, and recruited players for its new GGSquad. Maybe the biggest news of all in 2020 was GGPoker’s partnership with the World Series of Poker. Not only did the GGNetwork host WSOP Circuit events but the summer WSOP, including the Main Event.

That wasn’t enough for GGPoker, though. The network’s executives took a leap in November 2020 to sign a recognizable name: Dan Bilzerian.

It was an “all publicity is good publicity” mantra on display.

Months later, GGPoker announced a partnership with the fastest-growing poker player community focused on women. Fantastic Ladies in Poker (FLIP) is a group of female and female-identifying poker enthusiasts who support each other, encourage more women to play poker, and build a community to celebrate women’s poker accomplishments.

This must be the “concerted effort” to reach out to female poker players that GGPoker referenced two months ago in response to the Bilzerian signing.

The deal is a great opportunity for FLIP and its members.

The effort by GGPoker is also a slap in the face to many women in poker (something Bilzerian might like).

Good News First: FLIP

This week, GGPoker and FLIP announced their new partnership. GGPoker promised promotions and initiatives to help grow the FLIP community, complete with exclusive tournaments and benefits.

Further, FLIP founder and pro poker player Daiva Byrne (well-known on Twitter as @baltic_blonde) became a GGPoker Outreach and Community Advocate. “She will provide ongoing advice on strategies and initiatives designed to engage with a variety of poker player communities.”

Byrne noted, “I’m delighted FLIP is partnering with GGPoker, who shares our vision for a more inclusive future in poker. I’m also thrilled to work with a brand dedicated to developing innovations that resonate with the poker community.”

Exciting news! I can’t wait to work to improve inclusivity across the game I love with a brand that shares my vision 😊♥️♠️ @GGPokerhttps://t.co/UbXddW90Jg

— Daiva Byrne (@baltic_blonde) February 11, 2021

GGPoker Head of Public Relations Paul Burke added that Burke is likely to “turbo-charge our efforts to be genuinely inclusive and make absolutely every kind of player welcome at GGPoker!”

As explained by Byrne on the FLIP Facebook page, players can use FLIPLADIES for a welcome bonus on GGPoker. And in the future, GGPoker will host a welcoming event, and FLIP members will be able to organize private events.

Mixed Reactions from Women

The vast majority of comments on the FLIP Facebook page have been positive. Many messages expressed congratulations to Byrne.

There were some concerns, though. One woman noted that she hopes Byrne “can make a true impact on a stained company in the eyes of many women.” Byrne responded, “I hope to do everything I can do to develop demonstrative changes over the coming months to shift perceptions. Any and all feedback to help me achieve this appreciated.”

Of course, the Bilzerian signing was an issue for many women but none more obvious than Vanessa Kade. His response to her original disappointment in the Bilzerian deal was, “Quiet hoe, nobody knows who you are”.

Quiet hoe, nobody knows who you are

— Dan Bilzerian (@DanBilzerian) December 4, 2020

A woman on the FB page expressed hope that Byrne can change the company from the inside. Byrne responded, “I think that the fallout from Bilzerian was the catalyst for the desire to change within GG. I believe you can only exact so much change outside of the industry; I’m hoping now that I can make a difference with the full support of GG behind me. If this wasn’t the case, then the partnership wouldn’t be happening.”

Kade commented on the FB page as well: “I think Daiva is a wonderful ambassador and representative for women, but for GG’s part, this is them trying to buy her good faith with the female community after hiring and standing by a massive misogynist.”

They couldn’t have picked a better person, but without also firing Dan the message is still clear: they support bigotry as long it pads their bottom line and will just throw money at damage control as a token to shut us up.

Give us more than lip service and get rid of him GG.

— 🆅🅰🅽🅴🆂🆂🅰 🅺🅰🅳🅴 (@VanessaKade) February 11, 2021

Days after the announcement from GGPoker, the company did finally put something on Twitter, though they couldn’t be bothered to put an image of GIF with it as they do in every other tweet.

A big welcome to the #GGPoker family @ladies_poker!

🤗🤗🤗

Read all about it 👉 https://t.co/Qol1QauxYJ

— GGPoker – HOME OF ONLINE POKER'S LARGEST PRIZEPOOL (@GGPoker) February 13, 2021

It’s also important that GGPoker has yet to put anything on its website welcoming the members of FLIP. The formal press release is posted on the blog, but there is no other message on the home page. GGPoker does show nearly three dozen promotional images on the bottom of that home page, though.

Bad News: Bilzerian Still Represents GGPoker

The fastest-growing online poker network in the world has not shown one sign of regret about signing Bilzerian to an ambassadorship deal.

GGPoker decided to pay presumably big money for Bilzerian to represent the site as an ambassador. They put his picture next to Negreanu, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Fedor Holz, and Felipe Ramos.

Never mind that Bilzerian is a world-renowned sexist and misogynist. He has repeatedly put his view of women as trash and discardable property on full display to his tens of millions of Instagram and Twitter followers. He disparages mask-wearing to protect others, shoots big guns, smokes weed, and loves looking at himself. Occasionally, he plays poker.

Despite significant outcry from many in the poker community, GGPoker chose not to respond to concerns for weeks. The World Series of Poker brand also refused to respond and has yet to do so.

Pokerfuse reached out to GGPoker at that time for a statement about the controversy. The response was astoundingly tone-deaf.

“One of GGPoker’s main goals is to bring the game to a wider audience and make it more inclusive. Dan Bilzerian helps us accomplish that goal. In just days, he’s brought tens of thousands of new players to GGPoker.

“However, part of making poker more inclusive is actively balancing out audiences that Dan does not always reach. Over the coming weeks and months, GGPoker will make a concerted effort in extending our outreach to female players.”

Dan Bilzerian Net Worth

Sometime in 2015, Dan was interviewed by TV and radio personality, Howard Stern. It was in this talk that the poker player revealed the Dan Bilzerian net worth was around $100 million. He comes home to a large estate in Hollywood Hills that features a room full of guns, muscle vehicles, and a pet goat. Seriously, every Instagram post he has features different sets of women and he claims not paying for any of them.

Where Did Dan Bilzerian’s Money Come From?

Have you tried searching the Internet for Dan’s poker stats? He claims to have won around $50 million from playing poker in a year. However, the only documented Dan Bilzerian winnings from tournaments was worth $36,626. According to The Hendon Mob, Dan joined the World Series of Poker in 2009 and placed 180th in the $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em event. Just by looking at the Dan Bilzerian worth, we can conclude that playing poker at tournaments definitely is not the reason why he’s rich. So where did his money come from? Let’s take a look at some of the theories circulating the Internet.

Theory Number One: Dan Bilzerian Inherited a Massive Sum

Unlike other pro poker players like Tom Dwan, Dan Bilzerian did not build his bankroll by playing small stakes online. He is the son of the infamous Paul Bilzerian, a corporate raider who was convicted of tax laws and securities violations in relation to his unsuccessful takeovers of different companies during the 80s.

Even before Dan Bilzerian became a notable poker player and a filthy rich guy, he has been living with his father in a massive 28,000-square feet mansion in Tampa. The estate featured a water slide, an indoor basketball court, and a batting cage. In 1993 after the elder Bilzerian’s conviction, the court ordered him to pay $62 million. According to a 2014 article from the Wall Street Journal, the US Securities and Exchange Commission managed to recover only $3.7 million. This was mainly because Paul allegedly channelled his funds by filing several bankruptcies and putting up trust funds for his children, including Dan. The poker personality has acknowledged the existence of such trust funds in separate interviews. However, he did not reveal the exact amount of his “inheritance.”

Theory Number Two: Dan Bilzerian Won Big From Private Poker Cash Games

Remember that big poker scandal involving Hollywood celebrities such as Leonardo di Caprio, Tobey Maguire, and Ben Affleck? In 2013, Molly Bloom was convicted for making a massive profit out of organising private, illegal poker games. The aforementioned Hollywood A-listers were allegedly her clients. Rumour has it that Dan was also involved in these private games. They say that with buy-ins worth around $5,000 to $50,000, these private games could go wild. In one night, players could lose $3 million or they could win over $10 million in a heads-up match. Dan must have had the best poker hands for being able to build such a massive net worth.

In an interview with GQ, Dan said that be began playing poker when he was in college. During that time, he lost a lot of money that he even had to sell his precious guns. After selling those guns, he went to Las Vegas and earned $187,000 from playing poker. He even boasted about winning at least $90,000 per week in private games when he was in college. By 2010, he already made a name around the private poker circle. Professional poker player Todd Witteles even mentioned at one point that Dan showed up at a private game with $100,000 in his suitcase.

Theory Number Three: Dan Bilzerian Worth Was Built From Acting and Advertisement Gigs

Poker is definitely not the only thing that Dan is passionate about. He is one of the few professional poker players who also appeared on the silver screen in between their games. He has appeared in films like Lone Survivor, Olympus Has Fallen, The Other Woman, The Equalizer and Cat Run 2. He only had minor roles from these movies, and some sources say that Dan even invested in the films just so he could appear in them.

For instance, in Lone Survivor, Dan reportedly loaned the producers $1 million, and in exchange, he would be promised a minimum of 80 words of dialogue and eight minutes of screen time. His appearance was cut to a minute and he only had one line in the movie. In 2014, he filed a lawsuit demanding $1.2 million from the production. He eventually dropped the suit, claiming that the movie already made him $1.5 million richer.

Dan was also involved in a number of marketing campaigns. For instance, he appeared alongside Verne Troyer in the popular “Beat the Boss” ad for BGO. It was reported that the whole campaign was worth £15 million. Just recently, DraftKings also recruited Dan in their campaign to encourage Americans to try out daily fantasy sports. In this campaign, Dan was given the task to spend $250,000 on a three-day Southern California trip with several models.

DraftKings threw in a competition for the players and encouraged them to beat Dan’s football roster. If they win, they get to join Dan in the lavish getaway. This was the caption that the poker player posted on his Instagram: “So I guess Draft Kings figured they hadn't spent enough money running commercials so they gave me 250k to spend on a 3 day Cabo trip hosted by a bunch of models, I usually spend 150k for 4-5 days, so it will be a bit of a challenge to spend it, but I'm sure I can find a way.”