Bill Perkins (Entrepreneur)

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Bill Perkins
Bill Perkins (2015)
Bill Perkins (2015)
  Personal information  
Date of birth 2nd February 1969
place of birth United StatesUnited States Houston
Nickname
GUEST RADERSPokerStars
place of residence United StatesUnited States Houston
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 2,678,387
Total prize money $ 5,449,472
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 2
Best main event no cash
Last updated: August 2, 2020

William O. "Bill" Perkins III (* 2. February 1969 in Houston , Texas ) is an American hedge fund - manager , film producer , film actor , author and poker player .

Personal

Perkins grew up in Jersey City , New Jersey, USA . There he graduated from the private St. Peter's Preparatory School in 1986. Perkins later studied electrical engineering at the University of Iowa in Iowa City . He lives in Houston .

Perkins is known for betting with other poker players. In October 2013 he lost a bet against Jeff Gross , who got a tattoo selected by Perkins for a payment of 550,000 US dollars . In January 2016, Antonio Esfandiari only lungeed for 48 hours because of a bet with Perkins during the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas . However, since Esfandiari urinated into a bottle at his table during the main event in order to save himself the exhausting way to the toilet, he was disqualified by the tournament management and then donated the amount won against Perkins as an apology to charity. In March 2017, Perkins entered into a bet with brothers Matthew and Jaime Staples . In order to win the bet, they had to achieve a difference in body weight of less than one kilogram within a year . When the bet was made, Jaime Staples weighed around 140 kg, while his brother Matthew weighed only 60 kg. At the official weigh-in on March 27, 2018, both were exactly the same weight, turning a wager of just $ 3,000 into a profit of $ 150,000.

On July 28, 2020, Perkins' first book Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life was published .

Entrepreneurial career

Perkins worked with natural gas trader John Douglas Arnold after graduating from university . In 1997, Perkins founded Small Ventures USA, LP , which specializes in venture capital and private equity . In 2002 he joined Centaurus Energy , which lasted until 2012. Since then, Perkins has focused on hedge funds , through which he has amassed an estimated fortune of $ 50 million to $ 400 million .

Poker career

Perkins plays on the online poker platform PokerStars under the nickname GASTRADER . He occasionally takes part in renowned live tournaments, but plays almost exclusively high roller events, i.e. tournaments with buy-ins of at least 10,000 US dollars .

Perkins made its first live cash placement in mid-January 2012 at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures (PCA) high roller event in the Bahamas . There he finished 15th out of 148 players and received prize money of just under 60,000 US dollars. In July 2012 and 2014 he played the Big One for One Drop of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas , the most expensive poker tournament of the year. However, he failed to make it into the money on both occasions at the $ 1 million buy-in event. In late June 2013, Perkins reached the final table of the most expensive event of the 2013 WSOP , the US $ 111,111 High Roller for One Drop , finishing third behind Anthony Gregg and Chris Klodnicki , for which he received nearly US $ 2 million. At the beginning of October 2013, Perkins finished fourth in the Super High Roller of the European Poker Tour in London , securing the equivalent of around 470,000 US dollars. In January 2017 he reached the money ranks at two PCA events of the No Limit Hold'em variant and received prize money of almost 100,000 US dollars. Beginning August 2019 Perkins reached the Triton Million for Charity in London, with a buy-in of one million pounds world most expensive poker tournament, the final table and was awarded for his sixth place his highest ever prize of the equivalent of more than 2.6 million US Dollar.

Overall, Perkins has earned just under 5.5 million US dollars from poker in live tournaments. From April to December 2016 he played as part of the Berlin Bears in the Global Poker League and reached the final with his team.

Web links

Commons : Bill Perkins  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tweet from February 2, 2019, accessed on February 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d Bill Perkins Net Worth 2018 on thewealthrecord.com, accessed January 8, 2019.
  3. ↑ Bill Perkins in the Global Poker Index database, accessed January 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ Poker Pro Gets Tattoo In $ 550K Prop Bet on cardplayer.com on October 9, 2013, accessed on January 16, 2019.
  5. ↑ Esfandiari Disqualified From Poker Tournament For Peeing In A Container Underneath The Table on cardplayer.com on January 11, 2016, accessed on January 16, 2019.
  6. ↑ Bill Perkins Bets Staples $ 150k On Weight Loss Prop Bet on pokertube.com March 31, 2017, accessed January 16, 2019.
  7. ↑ Post on Instagram from March 27, 2018, accessed on January 16, 2019 (English).
  8. ↑ Poker Gossip: Die Poor but Happy with Bill Perkins on pokerfirma.com, accessed October 7, 2019.
  9. ↑ Small Ventures USA on smallventuresusa.com, accessed January 8, 2019.
  10. ↑ Bill Perkins Net Worth in 2019 - The Numbers Will Shock You on rakeadvisory.com December 11, 2018, accessed January 8, 2019.
  11. ↑ GASTRADER on highstakesdb.com, accessed on January 8, 2019 (English).
  12. ↑ a b Bill Perkins in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 8, 2019.
  13. ↑ PCA - 2012 ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em 8 Max - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 8, 2019.
  14. ↑ Full Player List and Bios for 2014 $ 1m WSOP Big One for One Drop on pokerlistings.com on June 29, 2014, accessed on January 8, 2019.
  15. ↑ 44th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 ($ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em - One Drop High Roller (Event # 47)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 8, 2019.
  16. ↑ EPT - 10 - UKIPT - 4 - London (£ 48,500 + 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 8, 2019.
  17. ↑ PokerStars Championship Bahamas ($ 2,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - PokerStars National Championship (Event # 12)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 8, 2019.
  18. ↑ PokerStars Championship Bahamas ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Shot Clock (Event # 96)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 8, 2019.
  19. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - London (£ 1,050,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triton Million for Charity (Event # 2)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 3, 2019.
  20. ↑ Berlin Bears on the Global Poker League website, accessed on January 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Perkins, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perkins III, William O. (full name); GASTRADER (Nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American hedge fund manager, film producer, film actor, writer, and poker player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas , United States