Ryan Feldman is pretty good at putting together crazy line-ups for Hustler Casino Live, but he's surpassed himself today.
The line-up for Saturday's game was already pretty wild: Neymar, Ninja, Ryan Garcia, Chris Eubank Jr and Alan Keating. But then a real wildcard was added to the mix.
We haven't heard anything from Dan Bilzerian in a long time, but he's playing today, and we grabbed him for a very rare interview before the game.
Given that he's been out of the limelight for a while, would this be a different Bilzerian to the gun-toting, womanizing Instagram star?
Short answer? No. Long answer? Watch the video above or read on below.
How did you come to play in the game?
Dan Bilzerian: Keating talked me into it. He told me Neymar and a lot of these guys were going to play.
Who are you looking forward to playing with?
DB: Neymar and me have been talking online, but we haven't played, so it will be good to chop it up with him in person.
Where have you been? We haven't seen you in a while. You wrote a book didn't you?
DB: Yeah, that took two years. I'm never writing another f*****g book again. I've been working on a few projects. I'm doing a course to teach guys what works with women. It's a problem out there, and there's a ton of bad information. I've deconstructed all the things that worked and didn't work. Trying to help out a lot of these guys that have got no f*****g shot, you know?
What do you love about poker?
DB: Sometimes I just eat some ketamine and go and play the $1/$3, play 100% of my hands, and put people to decisions. It's fun. They care about the money the same as any other game. You just get to act on whatever you feel. If you think you can get someone off a hand, you can try it. If you think he's full of shit, you find out every time. It's interesting. I find that more fun than playing medium stakes. I either play really big or really small.
How are you going to approach today's game?
DB: I'm going to see if I can win playing 100% of my hands.
You can watch how Bilzerian gets on in a $50/$100 game without (we presume) the aid of ketamine on the Hustler Casino Live YouTube channel now.
