Rick Salomon is an American entrepreneur, film producer and poker player.He was born on January 24th, 1969 in Neptune Township, NJ. He’s the son of former Warner Bros. Executive vice president Robert Jess Salomon.He started getting notable live tournament results around 2005.
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Celebrity poker pro Rick Salomon has failed in his bid to have $2.8million of poker winnings awarded after a French court rejected his case against a Saudi Sheikh.
Salomon, twice married to former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson, had sued Raad al-Khereiji, a member of one of Saudi Arabia’s wealthiest families, after the Saudi prince refused to honour his $2.8million loss in 2014.
Al-Khereiji had hosted the private poker game at the Tiara Miramar Beach hotel, near Cannes on the French Riviera. After his loss he agreed to have his US lawyer transfer the funds to Salomon, but reneged on the deal several months later.
Lawyers for al-Khereiji claimed that it had been a “friendly part [game] with no financial stake”, despite the Saudi being noted for his poker and gambling on many previous occasions.
The French court in Grasse, near Cannes, rejected Salomon’s claims because under French law the poker pro would have to prove that poker was not a game of “chance” and involved “physical skill and exercise”.
Salomon’s lawyer Ronald Sokol described last month’s court case as “an uphill fight”, stating after this week’s verdict:
“While I didn’t have much trouble showing it was a game of skill, these two cumulative conditions were not met.”
In court, Sokol also revealed al-Khereiji’s extravagant spending in Vegas.
“We obtained…through a US court order all Mr Kheriji’s gambling records in Las Vegas which show he spent $34 million in 29 months in the Ivey Room (at the Aria Resort and Casino and since renamed Table 1) where the minimum bet is $100,000”.
He concluded:
“We are considering taking this all the way to the French supreme court as the French rule on gambling debts has been in effect since 1804. There has been no case law since in the civil courts”.
Salomon’s poker career tournament winnings currently stand at $9,906,283, with several $multi-million cashes.
In 2014 he came 4th in the $1million buy-in Big One for One Drop for $2.8million, two years later finishing 3rd in the €1million Monte Carlo version, for €3million ($3,307,206).
Last year, 2018, took another 4th place finish at the $1million Big One for One Drop again, worth $2,840,000.
The Hollywood, California-based pro numbers Paris Hilton among his ex-girlfriends, although that relationship ended acrimoniously when he released a sex-tape of the couple entitled ‘1 night in Paris’.
Hilton settled out of court for $400,000 after claiming she was unaware of the filming.
It was billed as the 'biggest buy-in cash game in Poker After Dark history.' No surprise, then, that last night's game would produce some huge hands, including one resulting in a nearly $1 million pot.
Airing yesterday on PokerGO under the title 'Perks of the Trade' — named for participant Bill Perkins — the $300,000 buy-in, $300/$600 no-limit hold’em cash game also featured Phil Galfond, Brian Rast, Rick Salomon, Haralobos Voulgaris and Aaron Zang.
The huge pot began with Perkins putting in a blind raise from under the gun, then Zang reraised from the button with . Playing from the big blind, Salomon called with , and Perkins called as well.
The flop came , giving Zang top set, and when it checked around to him he continued for $15,000. Only Salomon called.
The turn brought the , filling a straight for Salomon who checked. Zang bet $50,000, then Salomon check-raised to $175,000. That’s where the action gets picked up in the video below via Poker Central:
As shown, Zang took about a minute-and-a-half before announcing he was reraising all in with the $432,000 total he had behind, and Salamon called right away to create a total pot of $926,200.
The pair agreed to run it twice, and both rivers — first the , then the — went Salomon’s way to give him the pot.
The pot exceeded a $702,400 one played earlier in the night between Galfond and Voulgaris, a hand won by Voulgaris when his held through two boards versus Galfond’s . It also was bigger than the $697,100 pot Tom Dwan won off of Antonio Esfandiari on an earlier PAD episode back in August in an aces-versus-kings showdown.
There’s more 'Perks of the Trade' coming tonight as the $300,000 buy-in, $300/$600 NL cash game continues with Matt Berkey and Daniel Cates both scheduled to join Perkins, Salomon, Voulgaris, and Zang. Play starts at 3:00 p.m. PT/6:00 p.m. ET.
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