Rick Salomon

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Rick Salomon
Rick Salomon (2018)
Rick Salomon (2018)
  Personal information  
Date of birth January 24, 1968
place of birth United StatesUnited States Neptune Township
place of residence United StatesUnited States Hollywood
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 3,307,206
Total prize money $ 9,906,283
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 4th
Best main event 196th ( 2006 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 1
Last updated: February 5, 2020

Richard "Rick" Allan Salomon (born January 24, 1968 in Neptune Township , New Jersey ) is an American poker player and actor . He gained fame primarily through his relationships with Elizabeth Daily , Shannen Doherty and Pamela Anderson as well as through the sextape 1 Night in Paris , which shows him together with Paris Hilton .

Life

Relationships and marriages

Salomon married the singer Elizabeth Daily in 1995 , with whom he has two daughters (* 1996; * 1998). The marriage ended in divorce in 2000. In 2002 he was married to actress Shannen Doherty for nine months . In 2003, after separating from Paris Hilton , Salomon published the sextape 1 Night in Paris on the Internet, which shows him having sexual intercourse and mutual oral intercourse with Hilton. Following a lawsuit for damages, he had to pay Hilton compensation of $ 400,000 and a share of the proceeds. In early October 2007, Pamela Anderson and Salomon married in Las Vegas and the marriage lasted until the end of March 2008. They were remarried in January 2014, but Anderson filed for divorce only six months later. Salomon lives in Hollywood .

Poker career

Salomon has occasionally taken part in renowned live tournaments since 2005 .

At the end of July 2006, Salomon won a tournament at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas with a prize of around 125,000 US dollars . At the beginning of August 2006 he was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino and finished 196th in the main event out of 8,773 players for a prize money of over 40,000 dollars. In mid-July 2010, Salomon managed to cash in at the World Poker Tour Main Event , finishing the tournament in ninth place for around $ 50,000. In June 2012 he took part in the Big One for One Drop initiated by Guy Laliberté , the most expensive poker tournament in the world with a buy-in of one million dollars , the WSOP, but could not place in the money. Also in 2014 he played the event and finished fourth for a prize money of 2.8 million dollars. In mid-October 2016 Salomon was invited by Laliberté to the Big One for One Drop Extravaganza , an exclusive poker tournament in Monte-Carlo with a buy-in of one million euros . There Salomon again reached the final table and received his highest prize money of three million euros for his third place. At the 2018 WSOP , he played the Big One for One Drop again and finished fourth for almost three million dollars in prize money. At the beginning of November 2018, Salomon finished second behind David Peters in a $ 100,000 tournament at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and secured prize money of $ 673,000.

In total, Salomon has earned almost ten million dollars with poker in live tournaments.

Acting career

Salomon played small roles in the films In My Sister 's Life , Who's Your Caddy? and Alpha Dog - Deadly Friendships .

Web links

Commons : Rick Salomon  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rick Salomon Biography in the Internet Movie Database, accessed on October 29, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ Paris Hilton - Tabloid Star on entertainment.lilithezine.com, accessed October 29, 2016.
  3. ↑ Pamela Anderson 'demands Rick Salomon's daughters and dog leave her Malibu mansion ASAP' after filing for divorce a week ago on dailymail.co.uk on February 17, 2015, accessed on October 29, 2016 (English).
  4. ↑ Rick Salomon in the Global Poker Index database, accessed October 29, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Rick Salomon in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 29, 2016 (English).
  6. ↑ Bellagio Cup II ($ 1,000 + 80 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 29, 2016 (English).
  7. ↑ 37th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006 ($ 10,000 No Limit Texas Hold'em - World Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 29, 2016.
  8. ↑ Bellagio Cup VI ($ 10,000 + 300 WPT Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 29, 2016.
  9. ↑ 45th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014 ($ 1,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - The Big One for One Drop (Event # 57)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 29, 2016.
  10. ↑ The Monte-Carlo One Drop Extravaganza (€ 888,889 + 111,111 No Limit Hold'em Big One For One Drop) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on October 29, 2016 (English).
  11. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 1,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - The Big One for One Drop (Event # 78)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 18, 2018.
  12. ↑ Fall Madness ($ 100,000 + 3,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Salomon, Rick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salomon, Richard Allan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player and actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Neptune Township , New Jersey , United States