Tony Bloom Gambler

Tony Bloom Gambler

He named his sports betting consultancy Starlizard after his nickname The Lizard; he got that due to his ice cool poker face. One of his most interesting businesses Starlizard uses technology and mathematics to give better odds to its members. Starlizard is said to go to the nth degree in factoring in a predicted score. The weather, player morale among other influencing factors. 
Bloom also owner of Brighton & Hove Albion (his birthplace football team) and Royale Union Saint-Gilloise of Belgium, he has a passion for football- for sure. 

Like some other pro gamblers Tony has made great success from combining maths and computers to help win at gambling. In further coincidence those same peers also were investors and businessmen. 
The start 
Tony was born on the south coast of the UK in a town called Brighton in 1970.His grandfather used to enjoy a bit of a flutter at the dogs (Greyhound racing) but nothing serious. He would take Tony when he was very young. Tony also spent a few quid at the arcades; he must have loved the thrill. 
It was at 15 that he started gambling himself at betting shops (known locally as bookies in the UK). 15 is and was an illegal age for gambling in the UK so he used a fake ID. 
He continued to diligently study maths realising the power of the subject from a young age. There is also clearly a love of it shown throughout his strategic life. He went on to Manchester and got a degree in maths. 
Tony Bloom has set his sights on creating a legacy for generations to come after leading Brighton & Hove Albion into their brand new home. The 41-year-old, a gambler, property developer and poker. TONY BLOOM is a gambler by trade – a man who takes chances, tackles the odds, goes for broke. But not, he insists, with his beloved Brighton and Hove Albion. Most specialize in just one sport, but a few manage to cover two sports. 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.
Following his student days he got his first job with Ernst and Young as an accountant. This alongside his betting wins built up a roll of some £20k a very nice respectable sum at the time. As an options trader though he lasted just 6 months, deciding to stop trading his time for money and moving into gambling as a profession. 
The Oriental Connection 
The next poignant moment was when Victor Chandlers (Bet Victor) the bookmakers noticed his talent for picking a winner. He had been winning from them no doubt! But he needed a big offer to make him give up being a pro. As head of a setup for Asian operations the position must have appealed to the entrepreneur in him too; as he took it.Now he was working for a bookmaker and learning Asian handicapping whilst living an international lifestyle. One notable win for The Lizard was instructing Victor Chandler to give France favourable odds to win the 1998 world cup final. Tony knows football, as the unfancied Frenchmen stormed to victory over Brazil 3-0. This is said to have made Chandlers a lot of money. But besides that it showed the world his talent for knowing the game of football. 

Ever the entrepreneur his first startup called Premier Bet was the first online to use the Asian Handicapping System. It was a great success and he sold the business later on.Hungry for more Tony saw the rise of the internet and being well placed was able to get in on online gambling websites. Part of the rise of online gambling was from the success of Chris Moneymaker - it was boom time. 
Taking his money from selling Premier Bet, Bloom saw the opportunity to reinvest and invigorate himself! Tony started two online poker sites, St Minver and Tribeca Tables. 
Poker 
Coming back to Chris M and Poker for a second Tony loves a game of poker. A true gambler at heart- 'Poker gives you a good grounding in lots of things, including reading situations and reading people and making tough decisions. Those skills can be used in business and certainly in running a football club,' -Tony Bloom 

Starlizard 
The profits of this company are not known exactly but it's huge numbers. It portrays itself as a betting consultancy agency. With 2 string services for those that can afford it. But if you can you may be in luck for the consultancy purportedly earns 100 million a year average. 14 million is made alone from the subscriptions to the information per year. If you visit the website of Starlizard you will see integrity is everywhere. Secrecy is very important when you consider that estimated annual wagered amounts can be a round 3 billion per year. 
Tony Bloom Gambler CastTony though remains a very likeable man and is a dad to his son, married to an Australian woman he lives a private life and looks after his businesses and employees well. After a long tenure they are allowed access to Starlizards services. He seldom flaunts his billions but is known to throw a wild party now and again.
It's worth noting that Tony Bloom has an interest in horse racing and many have been the feature of informed gambles. 
One horse worth a mention is Penhill, who was trained by Willie Mullins, a dual Cheltenham Festival winner in the Albert Bartlett Novices' hurdle (2017) & the Stayer's Hurdle (2018). He was retired in 2020 after pulling up when battling to retain his crown in the Stayer's Hurdle AT Prestbury Park. In his Flat and NH career he achieved 12 wins from 34 starts. He was a talented Flat horse with James Bethell and Luca Cumani, achieving a highest official rating of 100 and total earning (Flat) of £59,025. However, this son of Mount Nelson excelled on the National Hunt, achieving 7 wins from 16 starts. He won price money of £412,377. A highest official rating (NH) of 165 proved his class. A true champion.

Other exceptionally talented horses in the ownership of Bloom include Librisa Breeze, trained by Dean Ivory, who won over £1M in prize money. Withhold, trained by Roger Charlton, who has won over £400,000 in total earnings. 
Tony Bloom
Nickname(s)The Lizard
BornAnthony 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 finish512th, 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. 5dimes women's college basketball. 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]
Tony Bloom Gambler BookBloom 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]

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

Like some other pro gamblers Tony has made great success from combining maths and computers to help win at gambling. In further coincidence those same peers also were investors and businessmen. 
The start 
Tony was born on the south coast of the UK in a town called Brighton in 1970.His grandfather used to enjoy a bit of a flutter at the dogs (Greyhound racing) but nothing serious. He would take Tony when he was very young. Tony also spent a few quid at the arcades; he must have loved the thrill. 
It was at 15 that he started gambling himself at betting shops (known locally as bookies in the UK). 15 is and was an illegal age for gambling in the UK so he used a fake ID. 
He continued to diligently study maths realising the power of the subject from a young age. There is also clearly a love of it shown throughout his strategic life. He went on to Manchester and got a degree in maths. 
Tony Bloom has set his sights on creating a legacy for generations to come after leading Brighton & Hove Albion into their brand new home. The 41-year-old, a gambler, property developer and poker. TONY BLOOM is a gambler by trade – a man who takes chances, tackles the odds, goes for broke. But not, he insists, with his beloved Brighton and Hove Albion. Most specialize in just one sport, but a few manage to cover two sports. 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.
Following his student days he got his first job with Ernst and Young as an accountant. This alongside his betting wins built up a roll of some £20k a very nice respectable sum at the time. As an options trader though he lasted just 6 months, deciding to stop trading his time for money and moving into gambling as a profession. 
The Oriental Connection 
The next poignant moment was when Victor Chandlers (Bet Victor) the bookmakers noticed his talent for picking a winner. He had been winning from them no doubt! But he needed a big offer to make him give up being a pro. As head of a setup for Asian operations the position must have appealed to the entrepreneur in him too; as he took it.Now he was working for a bookmaker and learning Asian handicapping whilst living an international lifestyle. One notable win for The Lizard was instructing Victor Chandler to give France favourable odds to win the 1998 world cup final. Tony knows football, as the unfancied Frenchmen stormed to victory over Brazil 3-0. This is said to have made Chandlers a lot of money. But besides that it showed the world his talent for knowing the game of football. 

Ever the entrepreneur his first startup called Premier Bet was the first online to use the Asian Handicapping System. It was a great success and he sold the business later on.Hungry for more Tony saw the rise of the internet and being well placed was able to get in on online gambling websites. Part of the rise of online gambling was from the success of Chris Moneymaker - it was boom time. 
Taking his money from selling Premier Bet, Bloom saw the opportunity to reinvest and invigorate himself! Tony started two online poker sites, St Minver and Tribeca Tables. 
Poker 
Coming back to Chris M and Poker for a second Tony loves a game of poker. A true gambler at heart- 'Poker gives you a good grounding in lots of things, including reading situations and reading people and making tough decisions. Those skills can be used in business and certainly in running a football club,' -Tony Bloom 
Starlizard 
The profits of this company are not known exactly but it's huge numbers. It portrays itself as a betting consultancy agency. With 2 string services for those that can afford it. But if you can you may be in luck for the consultancy purportedly earns 100 million a year average. 14 million is made alone from the subscriptions to the information per year. If you visit the website of Starlizard you will see integrity is everywhere. Secrecy is very important when you consider that estimated annual wagered amounts can be a round 3 billion per year. 
Tony Bloom Gambler CastTony though remains a very likeable man and is a dad to his son, married to an Australian woman he lives a private life and looks after his businesses and employees well. After a long tenure they are allowed access to Starlizards services. He seldom flaunts his billions but is known to throw a wild party now and again.
It's worth noting that Tony Bloom has an interest in horse racing and many have been the feature of informed gambles. 
One horse worth a mention is Penhill, who was trained by Willie Mullins, a dual Cheltenham Festival winner in the Albert Bartlett Novices' hurdle (2017) & the Stayer's Hurdle (2018). He was retired in 2020 after pulling up when battling to retain his crown in the Stayer's Hurdle AT Prestbury Park. In his Flat and NH career he achieved 12 wins from 34 starts. He was a talented Flat horse with James Bethell and Luca Cumani, achieving a highest official rating of 100 and total earning (Flat) of £59,025. However, this son of Mount Nelson excelled on the National Hunt, achieving 7 wins from 16 starts. He won price money of £412,377. A highest official rating (NH) of 165 proved his class. A true champion.
Other exceptionally talented horses in the ownership of Bloom include Librisa Breeze, trained by Dean Ivory, who won over £1M in prize money. Withhold, trained by Roger Charlton, who has won over £400,000 in total earnings. 
Tony Bloom
Nickname(s)The Lizard
BornAnthony 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 finish512th, 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. 5dimes women's college basketball. 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]
Tony Bloom Gambler BookBloom 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]Understanding the over under bet. 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.
External links[edit]Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tony_Bloom&oldid=1005413862'