Eli Elezra
This week’s classic Poker After Dark hand features Phil ‘The Poker Brat’ Hellmuth as well as an old favorite player who has been both in the limelight and in the shadows during his career, Eli Elezra.
Eli Elezra, a poker player and a businessman, who’s been butting heads with the best in the game for a while now (source: wsop.com) Perhaps best known for his thick Israeli accent and slicked-back black hair, Eli Elezra has been able to showcase his poker prowess thanks so the explosion of televised poker. Eli Elezra was born on Thursday, November 24, 1960. He is currently fifty nine years old. Eli was born in 1960s, part of the Baby Boomers Generation, and has a birth sign of Sagittarius, according to CelebsAges. His next birthday will be on a Tuesday in 61 days.
THE MAN AND THE MYTH
Eli Elezra is a person from Israel. Poker player who competed in the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour. He also competed on television in the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament. Continue to next page below to see how much is Eli Elezra really worth, including net worth, estimated earnings, and salary for 2019 and 2020. Of course, everyone s story is a little different. But one of the more unique and interesting ones belongs to poker pro and businessman Eli Elezra. The text begins with Eli taking his seat at the final table of the 2004 Mirage Poker Showdown Tournament which was part of the World Poker Tour, and which Eli wins for just over $1 million.
Eli Elezra, a former Israeli army commando and Las Vegas businessman, is a fascinating character. He’s exactly what a cash game grinder cliché might look like, yet at the same time could be completely the opposite at the same time. Like a few other poker players, he falls between two stalls.
It’s as if Elezra Elezra was born in the infancy of the Swinging Sixties, turning two when The Beatles released their first number one hit record. But he’s only 58 years old. He would have been a mere ten years old when the World Series was formed, yet he’s won three bracelets, albeit never having won any wrist-based jewelry in No Limit Hold’em.
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MR VEGAS COMES TO TOWN
Elezra is nicknamed ‘Mr. Vegas’, and has played in Sin City often, taking part in many of our recent televised cash games. Before that, he was part of The Big Game, High Stakes Poker and, you guessed it, Poker After Dark. In fact, he featured in six out of the seven seasons, only missing the final outing for the show.
Eli Elezra Arrested
With all his credits mentioned, Elezra opted to promote his magnum opus on 2+2, kicking off a massive discussion about owing people money and how many high stakes players take to the felt with borrowed money. According to Elezra, quite a few of them.
PROTECTING YOUR HAND
One question that springs to mind when anyone brings out a poker book is the eternal question of why. Presuming it’s not all for the love of money – books are not a great way of getting rich overnight – the upside of giving away any tactical nous you have accrued about the game of poker might be right up with the riskiest plays you can ever make in the game.
When Doyle Brunson’s Super system 1 & 2 came out, players took to it, dissected it and used the brilliant methods therein to create their own playbook based on the musings of the mercurial Doyle Brunson. The former basketball player-turned-poker legend was a two-time world champion and could reinvent his game to anticipate the moves his opponents would make base on his style of play, turnover play if you like. But is every one that flexible?
LEARNING FROM YOUR MISTAKES
It’s not just in this Poker After Dark hand that Eli Elezra and Phil Hellmuth caught up, with the latter helping the former out with a little promotion of his book back in January while sharing the felt in the Bahamas.
Elezra’s no holds barred story promises to lift the lid on the Full Tilt years as well as decades of games at the felt in some of the most dramatic cash games hands ever seen. Will he be able to reinvent himself once people know what he’s up to, or will he be too set in his ways to change?
If Eli Elezra is able to outlive the musings he has made in print, maybe he’ll get some revenge on the mercurial Hellmuth for this Poker After Dark hand. You can find out by watching Elezra take on the best in the business in the recent episodes of Poker After Dark and last year’s 888poker Sit n Go title showdown with Maria Ho. Subscribe today and you’ll have access to PokerGO’s exclusive on-demand catalog of poker content.
09:3726 Jan
Poker legend Eli Elezra has been shot down in flames on the 2plus2 forum, an AMA thread intended to promote his book descending into a bitter war of words over unpaid debts the Israeli-born pro is alleged to owe to the likes of Shaun Deeb and Cole South, stretching back to 2010.
The Ask-Me-Anything thread was deleted overnight apparently by 2plus2 owner Mason Malmuth, the publisher of Eli Elezra’s recent autobiography unhappy that Elezra was facing criticism from Cole South among others.
Elezra replied to early criticism on the thread by stating:
“Poker players always lending each other money. I always pay my debts”.
This spurred Cole South into action, revealing that Elezra had borrowed $100,000 from him in 2010 – a chunk of which has not been repaid.
In Elezra’s book, ‘Pulling the Trigger’, the High Stakes Poker regular and 3-time WSOP bracelet winner admits to being horrendous with money, regularly borrowing from his businesses to fund his high-stakes poker lifestyle.
Elezra’s self-confessed inability to manage his bankroll, which he admits caused many problems with his business partner, appears to be behind the numerous claims of him being a bad debtor to fellow pros.
Doug Polk picked up on the AMA disaster and contacted Shaun Deeb, another of those alleged to be owed large sums by Elezra.
Polk stated:
“I reached out to Shaun Deeb and asked him what was going on between Eli and him. And he said that payments have been irregular and he has not been fully paid. So, certainly some stuff to dissect here.”
With Elzera leaving the AMA thread, and Malmuth shutting it down in typical fashion as he does with any post or thread he doesn’t like, or even person who disagrees with him as your writer found out last year, it has been left to others in the poker community to get to the bottom of just how much, and to whom, Elezra owes large sums of money.