Tony Bloom Betting
Some of the world’s leading professional gamblers, such as the legendary Tony Bloom, even have a team of statisticians and number crunchers working for them covering a wide range of sports. However, you need some serious cash to employ a team like that. Englander Tony Bloom, like Zerj, cut his teeth playing cards, earning roughly $3.3 million in live tournaments to date. But word is this guy took it to the next level (or three) when he started betting on sports and selling his picks.
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| Tony Bloom | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | The Lizard |
| Born | Anthony Grant Bloom 20 March 1970 (age 50) Brighton, Sussex, England |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 11 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish | 512th, 2006 |
| World Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | 1 |
| Money finish(es) | 2 |
| European Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 1 |
Anthony Grant Bloom (born 20 March 1970 in Brighton, Sussex) is a British professional sports bettor, poker player, entrepreneur and owner/chairman of Premier Leaguefootball club Brighton & Hove Albion and Belgian First Division B team Royale Union Saint-Gilloise.
Poker and betting[edit]
Bloom has been a sports bettor and property investor, nicknamed The Lizard.
Bloom appeared in the Late Night Poker television series and also has a final table appearance on the World Poker Tour. He also made back-to-back final table appearances in the first two Poker Million events. His first major win came in January 2004 when he won the Australasian Poker Championship in Melbourne, collecting a first prize of around A$420,000 ($320,000, £180,000).[1]
Bloom won the £5,000 No LimitHold'emVC Poker Cup Final in London on 5 August 2005 and won the £200,000 ($351,401) first prize.
He also had a fourth-place finish in the 2005 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions. He was a member of the winning British team in the Poker Nations Cup.
As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,500,000. Bloom won A$600,000 for his second-place finish in the High Rollers Challenge, event 8 of the Australian Poker Millions tournament held in Melbourne in Jan 2009.
Bloom fell short of the million pound grand prize in the Poker Million IX event held in London on 10 December 2010. He finished second behind Gus Hansen.[2]
Entrepreneur[edit]
Bloom is believed to have accumulated wealth through developing online gambling and gaming websites, and through property and start-up investments.[3][4]
Football chairman[edit]
Since 2009, Bloom has been the chairman of Brighton & Hove Albion, who are currently a Premier League club, having gained promotion in the 2016–17 season after 34 years out of the top flight of English football.
He succeeded Dick Knight after securing a 75% shareholding in the club and investing £93 million in the development of the club's new ground, Falmer Stadium.[5][6] Since the stadium has been built, it has received numerous extensions in spectator capacity and has received funding to ensure that it is 'Premier League ready' by installing floodlights, amongst other minor features.
Upon taking over the club, Bloom declared his love of the game, 'I've been a football fan and a gambler since the age of about seven or eight. My interest in both developed at the same time.'[7] Bloom is a longtime fan of Brighton[8] and his family has had a long association with the club: his uncle Ray is a director and his grandfather, Harry, was vice-chairman during the 1970s.[9]
On becoming chairman, Bloom appointed former Uruguay international Gus Poyet as manager, and together they led the team to promotion from Football League One as champions in 2011, the season before Brighton moved into their new home - the Falmer Stadium. Poyet left the club in 2013 after losing in a play-off semi-final to Crystal Palace. In June 2013, Bloom appointed Óscar García as the new head coach of the club; Garcia resigned after losing a second successive play-off semi-final to Derby County and left the club in May 2014. The next manager was former Liverpool player Sami Hyypiä, who only lasted a few months in the managerial role after a poor start to the 2014–15 season left Brighton in the relegation zone. Chris Hughton became manager towards the end of 2014, and the club have been successful since.
Hughton steered Albion to safety in their 2014–15 campaign, and then guided the club to a 3rd-place position in the Championship in the following season, missing out on promotion to Middlesbrough on goal difference. The club would be defeated in the play-off semi final, for the third time in four years, this time to Sheffield Wednesday.
Brighton went one step further in the 2016–17 season under Hughton's management and Bloom's ownership, finishing 2nd in the Championship and gaining promotion to the Premier League for the first time in the club's history. Bloom backed Hughton in the following transfer window, breaking several record transfer fees to improve the squad, readying Brighton's first Premier League season. On 13 May 2019, immediately after the end of the season, with the club ending at the 17th position and thus securing its top-tier status for the coming season, Bloom released a statement to the effect that 'it was time for a change' and sacked Hughton, replacing him with Championship's Swansea coach Graham Potter.[10]
In 2018, Bloom completed the takeover of Belgian second division club Union SG.[11]
Personal life, and other ventures[edit]
Bloom is Jewish, and has contributed significantly to the development of a synagogue project in Hove. He stepped in with the Brighton and Hove Hebrew Congregation suffering financial problems, and the funding for the development will come from his Bloom Foundation, of which he is the chairman.[12]
References[edit]
- ^Tony Bloom's Player Profile and HistoryArchived 2 March 2010 at the Wayback MachinePokerpages. Retrieved 1 May 2010
- ^Hendon Mob DatabaseThe Hendon Mob. Retrieved 26 May 2011
- ^https://www.businessinsider.com/tony-bloom-biography-2017-4
- ^https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/4387975.how-bloom-hit-the-jackpot/
- ^Stadium Funding SecuredArchived 22 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Seagulls World, 18 May 2009. Retrieved 18 May 2009
- ^Prediction for 09-10 SeasonSquarefootball, 21 February 2009. Retrieved 21 February 2009
- ^TONY IS BLOOM-ING GOODNOTW, 16 May 2009. Retrieved 16 May 2009
- ^Szczepanik, Nick (22 May 2009). ''I'm no Abramovich' says new Brighton chairman'. Times Online. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
- ^Szczepanik, Nick (19 May 2009). 'Brighton secure £93m investment'. Times Online. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
- ^'Brighton: Chris Hughton surprised and disappointed by sacking'. BBC. 22 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/16239606.done-deal-albion-chairman-tony-bloom-completes-takeover-of-belgian-club-saint-gilloise/
- ^'Albion owner finances new synagogue project'. The Argus. 28 October 2017.
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Recently I was speaking to a friend about sports betting. He asked me who is the “Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo” of the sports betting world. It was an interesting question as who are the biggest sports bettors in the world?
The Biggest Sports Bettors In The World
Successful sports bettors don’t tend to glamour for the limelight. They have their edges in the sports betting markets and make money from it. If they were to reveal their methods and how they make money from sports betting, the markets would react and they would no longer be profitable.
So there is “no world series of sports betting” or “sports betting champions league.” There are however a few high profile sports bettors that are known among the media.
Billy Walters
Billy Walters is a big name in American sports betting. It is estimated that Walters has made tens of millions of dollars perhaps even hundreds of millions of dollars.
Walters was originally for Kentucky. He moved to Las Vegas in the early 1980’s and formed his own betting syndicate. Walters betting operation was first described in the book “The Smart Money” by Micheal Konik.
Within the book the author goes into detail about Walters (although a pseudonym is used) betting operation. How he used multiple people to get his bets on. Difficulties he faced in getting sports books to accept his bets. Alongside the lengths and planning he had to go through to be so successful.
Although he has been largely secretive about his betting operations. He has been covered on ESPN and had a small television segment made about him.
Billy Walters has long been known as one of the biggest sports bettors in Las Vegas. However has most recently been making headlines after being convicted of insider trading.
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Tony Bloom And Starlizard
Tony Bloom is the owner of UK based betting syndicate “Starlizard.” He is well known name among sharp sports bettors. It is estimated that Starlizard can have as much as £1 million staked on a single outcome of a football match.
Starlizard are known to run their betting operation with same devotion and analytics of a major hedge fund. Officially Stalizard describe itself as a betting consultancy. Which uses complex statistical models to generate football odds that are sharper than those offered by the Asian bookmakers and betting exchanges.
Bloom isn’t just involved with sports betting and has many other business ventures. In 2009 he became the chairman of his hometown club after purchasing 75% stake in the club. Also investing £93 million into developing a new ground.
According to Business Insider UK the bulk of the money used in Stalizard’s operation comes from Tony Bloom. Described as a maths whiz. He is a veteran gambler and has competed in some of the highest stake poker tournaments around. In the early 2000’s he was estimated to have made millions from setting up online bookmaker and poker websites.
Much like Billy Walters, Tony Bloom is not one for the public limelight. With most articles containing second hand information about his betting activities. Bloom only chooses to talk with the media about his involvement in Bighton And Hove Albion.
Zeljko Ranogajec
Zeljko Ranogajec is rumoured to be one of the biggest gamblers in the world. It is estimated that his global annual turnover is more then $1 billion. Born in Australia in a family of Croatian immigrants. Zeljko first success in gambling came from the game of blackjack.
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Allegedly Zeljko Ranogajec turned a bankroll of a few hundred dollars into millions through advantage play. He has also had notable wins in the game of Keno winning $7.5 million and in 2011 was inducted into the blackjack hall of fame.
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When it comes to sports betting Zeljko Ranogajec is rumoured to bet significant amounts of money on horse racing. It is reported that his turnover accounts for nearly a third of the total for Betfair in Australia.
Ranogajec does not give any interviews. A lot of the speculation that surrounds him comes from second hand information. As with most large scale sports bettors there is not much for him to gain from revealing information about his betting activities.
Who Are Biggest Sports Bettors In The World?
The three sports bettors above are thought to turnover hundreds of millions perhaps billions annually. In truth though it is hard to know who the biggest sports bettors in the world are. As if you are profiting from sports betting on such a large scale it is in your interest to keep that knowledge to yourself.
Some of the biggest sports bettor in the world may also not even be winning ones. I am sure there will a few rich oil merchants or Chinese businessman. Who bet huge amounts of money for thrills without the detailed analysis needed to be successful.
So whist little is known about the biggest sports bettors in the world. There are at least a few individuals that rumoured to be beating the sports betting markets on a massive scale.
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