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Phil Laak Net Worth
Phil Laak's Net Worth as of 2024
$18 Million
Philip C. Laak was born on 8 September 1972, in San Francisco, California USA, of Irish descent. Phil is a professional poker player, best known for holding a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and a World Poker Tour (WPT) title. He’s made numerous appearances on television, and all of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Phil Laak? As of mid-2016, sources estimate a net worth that is at $18 million, mostly earned through his success in playing professional poker. He has competed in and won numerous poker tournaments, building a reputation along with his success. He’s also become a widely known personality in the game, and as he continues his career his wealth will likely increase.
Phil Laak Net Worth $18 million
Phil attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering. After working a few jobs, he found the poker scene in California; he was a skilled backgammon player before turning to poker.
Since he was a child, Laak already knew how to play the card game of poker. He started becoming well known in the scene after winning his first victory in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Celebrity Invitational in 2004, a major tournament. After his win there, he made the final table in the 2005 Five Diamond World Poker Classic and the season two Battle of Champions. In 2005, he would place second in the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and would then win the William Hill Poker Grand Prix, earning him 150,000 Pounds for first place. He continued to make appearances in major poker tournaments such as the Poker Royale series and High Stakes Poker. His net worth was rising very well.
He also became part of the television series “E!Hollywood Hold’em” which was short lived, but Laak would then add to his impressive resume, winning at the “Poker After Dark” show, earning him $120,000. He won again in another episode of the show entitled “Nicknames”, netting him another $120,000. His net worth started increasing dramatically and he would soon participate in a fight against the poker playing computer program Polaris, a series which he won.
The following year, he made a cameo appearance in the television movie “Knight Rider”. He became a columnist for Bluff Magazine, handling the column entitled “Being Phil Laak”, and he also became a co-host of the show “I Bet You”, in which he and Antonio Esfandiari bet on various things. In 2009, Laak would win the PartyPoker.com World Open V, earning him $250,000. The following year he launched his own website entitled “Unabomber Poker”, and would later win his first WSOP Bracelet at the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe. Based on recent reports, Phil has won more than $3.1 million from live tournaments.
For his personal life, it is known that Phil is dating actress Jennifer Tilly who’s also well known in the poker scene. He is called the “Unabomber” because of his hooded sweatshirt which makes him resemble Theodore Kaczynski. He’s also helped coin a few unusual terms used for poker, and holds the world record for longest time spent playing poker in a single session at 115 hours.
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Ben Stein Net Worth
Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American lawyer, speechwriter, actor, writer and commentator on economic and political issues, but he is also known for participating in many other activities. For example, Ben Stein has even tried himself as a game show host. This famous person in American economics and politics was born on November 25 in 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States during World War II. He attended Columbia College and later Yale Law School. After graduation Ben Stein started to write columns and articles for different US magazines such as Newsmax, Los Angeles Magazine, Penthouse, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Magazine, The American Spectator and even for The New York Times.
Ben Stein Net Worth $20 Million
In his writings Stein usually speaks about the economic situation and political issues, and even gives financial advices to individual investors. However, in the mid-60s he also got the job of a poverty lawyer and later continued as a lawyer for the Federal Trade Comission. After few years of hard work, Ben Stein decided to try himself in acting too, but before starting to get roles he became a Hollywood consultant. Stein got his first comedy role and had to play a boring and monotonous economics teacher in the movie called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was released in 1986. As an actor Ben Stein has since appeared in many other movies, such as The Mask, No Intelligence Allowed, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, The Emperor’s New School, Full House, Casper: A Spirited Beginning, The O’Reilly Factor, Maried… with Children, Duckman, The Emperor’s New Schol, Earthworm Jim, Casper Meets Wendy, Family Guy and Richie Rich.
The famous actor and commentator is also recognized thanks to the Comedy Central channel where he was the main face of the show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money” for which he has even received an Emmy award. Ben Stein was earning $5,000 per episode, but money that contestants won was subtracted from actor’s salary. However, these earnings are just nothing if we compare them with Stein’s net worth, which reached $20 million in 2012.
Ben Stein is well known thanks to his ability to harmonize all his activities and show himself as a talented person in every job he does. But maybe one of his most successful, but not so well-known activities is writing speeches for American presidents. Ben Stein was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Until now Ben Stein has published 15 books, the first written together with Herbert Stein and released in 1978. In 2012 his last book appeared in stores – “How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio”.
Nowadays Ben Stein lives with his wife Alexandra Denman in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California. The couple married in 1968 and divorced after 6 years, but in 1977 they got back together again. With his wife Ben Stein adopted their son Tom in 1987. As well as his property in Beverly Hills, Ben Stein also owns a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho and an apartment in the Watergate complex in Washingtton, D.C., which was inherited from his parents.
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Paul Heyman Net Worth
Paul Heyman was born on 11 September 1965, in Westchester County, New York City USA, and is an entertainment producer, performer, marketing guru, and a businessman. In particular, he is a vital member of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (a.k.a. the WWE). Heyman’s versatility has made a great impact on his net worth.
So just how rich is Paul Heyman? The latest information from authoritative sources as of mid-2016, estimates that Paul’s net worth is over $10 million, accumulated during his working life now spanning 30 years.
Paul Heyman’s Net Worth $10 Million
Paul was born into the Jewish family of personal injury attorney Richard, and Sulamita Heyman, actually a holocaust survivor. At 11 he started his first business attempt, selling celebrity and sports memorabilia. His educational background comes from Suny Purchase, New York, and Westchester Community College, where he was also employed as a radio station host and later a producer, and was famous/notorious even then for his bold, controversial and opinionated statements.While still a teenager, Heyman hustled his way as a photo journalist into a World Wide Wrestling Federation event at Madison Square Garden, and was paid by the company for several photos he had taken. This is considered as a first step into his later career, and which talent he expanded into the creation of a wrestling magazine “The Wrestling Times Magazine“, and wrote for wrestling publications such as “Pro Wrestling Illustrated”.
Paul then successively worked for Capitol Wrestling Corporation, Championship Wrestling from Florida, Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling, and Extreme Championship Wrestling, in various guises including promoter, producer, trainer, and manager, and then with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as a commentator and broadcaster from the turn of the century. Additionally, he is also the manager of such famous wrestlers as Brock Lesnar and a group of wrestlers called Paul Heyman Guys. The training career income is considered to be one of the main flows into Heyman’s account as well.
Paul Heyman pursues a separate career as a businessman as well, as he has also co-founded and co-owns a branding and advertising marketing firm The Looking4Larry Agency, based in New York City. The company is mostly known for its activities in viral video production as well as social media marketing. Heyman employed award winning NYC ad executive Mitchell K. Stuart of HQ-Creative Services and their very first client was EA Sports. After successful viral campaigns with EA, The Looking4Larry Agency became the agency of record for THQ video games, where Heyman and Stuart wrote, directed, and produced viral videos for THQ games such as All Stars, WWE ’12, and WWE ’13.
Heyman also launched a multimedia project called The Heyman Hustle, featuring a video of him interacting with celebrities from several areas of entertainment on the streets of New York City, and articles about professional wrestling.
Additionally, Heyman was cast by producer Michael Tadross as “Gino” in the film adaptation of the off-Broadway show “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding”, and Heyman also made a cameo appearance in the WWE Studios film, “Countdown”.
In his personal life, Paul Heyman married Maria, but is reputed to be raising their two children as a single father. There is little other private information available to the media.
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