#857 - Dan Bilzerian

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Boom, and we're live. There's a lot of rich people in the world, but there's not a lot of rich people living like you. So first of all, before we even get started, I salute you, sir, because if I was a 16-year-old kid and I won the lottery, I'd be living exactly the way you live. Like, if you asked a 16-year-old kid, hey man, if you had fucking 100 million bucks, what would you do? Oh dude, I just have bitches around me all the time, I'd be jet skiing, I'd be driving around Ferraris and private jets. You're living like a life that doesn't even seem real.

Does it seem real to you?

Dan Bilzerian (0:34)

Now it seems normal, as crazy as that sounds. I've been doing it for a while, but that's actually kind of exactly what I did. I think it started in maybe like 2011, 2012 So I had a girlfriend for about two or three years, and she was like pretty happy. She was a playmate, she had like 100,000 followers, and she was going to move to LA to become famous and this and that. And we ended up breaking up.

And I actually ended up getting a place in San Diego, then I got a place in LA, and I started playing this real big poker.

And I mean, I beat one guy for like $54 million, and then I beat another guy for like $10 million. So there's like some pretty big... Jesus Christ. Yeah, like, you know what I'm saying? It's like there are some pretty big wins there. And I was single, and I was just like, you know what? Fuck it, I'm just kind of like, do bucket list shit, like whatever I wanted to do when I was a kid, I'm just going to fucking do it, you know? And I just did, and I posted about it. And it was like part of the posting was because I knew it would be able to get me some pussy without like actually speaking to girls, which was good. And then there was like another piece of it where it was kind of like a fuck you to her.

But it was like never like really to become famous, you know what I mean? It was just kind of like, you know, I was just doing my thing, and, you know, we were getting pictures here and there.

And then it kind of, I mean, fuck it's, you know, I mean, I sent you some of the stats. I mean, I think like a week ago, like, fuck, I reached 175 million people on just...

Joe Rogan (2:04)

Yeah, it was insane. You sent me some measurement of all the different people that are looking at your stuff, and I'll read it, because it's insane, analytics.

Yeah, like, it doesn't even make sense. These, it's hundreds of millions of people here.

Dan Bilzerian (2:20)

We'll see.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

161,304,941 impressions this week. That's insane.

Dan Bilzerian (2:30)

And that's just Instagram, you know, like, Facebook's the whole thing, you know, another thing. And it's really underrepresented because, first of all, everybody else is buying all their followers and likes and all their shit, so theirs is like really inflated.

And also, I got actually kind of like the opposite, because I got a lot of people that are looking at my shit, they can't really be seen looking at my shit. You know what I mean? There's some big producer, I won't say his name, but every time I post a girl, they get hit up in the D. And this is like a big, big, fucking done, $100 million movies and shit.

And he's like, hits them all up. So there's a lot of these dudes that just stalk me out, like this Paul Marciano, this fucking guy, every time I post a chick, she's got a guest campaign now. So it's like, it's kind of funny.

Joe Rogan (3:13)

Well, it's great for them too then.

Dan Bilzerian (3:16)

What I'm saying is they're not actually officially following me. They didn't click that button, but they're watching my shit.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

They're stalking you from afar.

So they hit that search button, and you're at the top of the list always, because they're always searching you. That's funny.

So how long has this been going on? When did you start making all these crazy posts, and when did this gambling rampage start?

Dan Bilzerian (3:37)

Well, I've been a gambler for a long time, but I think kind of the craziness, I would say, started in 2012, probably. I just distinctly remember, because I won like 11 million bucks in a night, and my buddy, who I'd just given like $2,000 to, made me a million off it, because he got second in the world series of poker. So I had like a $12 million week, so I was like, fuck it, I'm going to take this dude down to like Puerto Vallarta with a bunch of chicks, and we're going to have fun. And that was kind of like, that was one of the big... Actually, no, I'm sorry, I take that back. I'd broken up my girlfriend, and it was a buddy of mine, Nick Casavetes, who he's like, you know, he's pretty big.