#114 The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time

One of the players had just returned from the Bellagio. In the poker room, he saw the son of a poker world champion and some Texas banker. Playing heads up Texas Hold'em. With over fifteen milliн dollars on the table. The amount simply would not register in my mind.

I remembered from my earlier poker days stories about Doyle Brunson and Puggy Pearson playing rounds of golf. For more money than Jack Nicholas and Lee Trevino made in a year. I overheard pros describing their winnings in inches of hundred dollar bills. But fifteen million dollars on the table.

This much cash would weigh over two hundred and fifty pounds. Don't ask how I know this. Suffice to say that people who weigh bundles of a hundred dollar bills keep a low profile. It just seemed like more money than even a phenomenal poker player could accumulate. Much less risk in one game.

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