Dan Bilzerian

Dan Bilzerian is an American social media personality and businessman who gained wide notice in the 2010s for an extravagant, gun-filled lifestyle on Instagram, where he built a large following. Born in Tampa, Florida, he has said he spent four years at the University of Florida before leaving to play poker professionally. He entered the Main Event at the 2008 World Series of Poker, finishing 180th, and Bluff magazine readers named him among the funniest poker players on Twitter in 2010. He has said he ran Ignite International Brands, a company that sold vaping products, CBD oils, bottled water and vodka. He appeared in Lone Survivor (2013), Extraction (2015), The Equalizer and Cat Run 2 (both 2014). He published the autobiography The Setup in 2021 and worked with Novasoft to launch the mobile first-person shooter Save Dan in 2022.