UFC president Dana White explains why he can't bet in Las Vegas casinos
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Dana White has admitted he is not allowed to play at a number of the top casinos in Las Vegas due his high-stakes game.
The UFC president is a prolific gambler, and has been known to win major amounts during hours-long sessions at tables in his adopted home in Nevada. But major hotel and casino venues such as the Wynn have previously caused him hassle after some of his legendary winning runs.
White is known to sit at the tables for hours gambling with massive stakes, and has been said to have won as much as $7million in a single night during some of his luckiest evenings. But despite rumours to the contrary, he is not officially banned from any of the city's major hotspots, instead just facing major stumbling blocks from certain places that want to keep him out.
"It's not that I'm banned from casinos, it's just that they don't want me to play there," White explained in a GQ segment where fans asked him questions on different internet forums. "They won't give me the limits that I want and let me bet as much as I want because they don't like to lose.
"The Palm has kicked me out of there twice, the Mirage, the Wynn will not let me play. The only places that will let me play in town are Cesar's Palace, the Bellagio and the Venetian, all of those guys take really big play, but if you are a big player and you come into town you're insane not to play at Caesar's Palace. Caesar's Palace is by far the best casino in the world."
The UFC president is a multi-millionaire, worth a reported nine-figures, mostly through his work developing the MMA promotion from a $2m valuation to its $4billion+ sale in 2016. But he has remained a regular in certain casinos, whenever he gets the chance to compete during gaps in his busy schedule.
He has even joked that he views gambling as his part-time job during a UFC Embedded video in 2014. White could be seen playing during fight week for UFC 173, and winning an undisclosed amount in the midst of a six-month streak without a loss. While the number he won wasn't revealed during the episode, he was able to tip casino staff $500 as a result.
"We beat 'em again," he can be heard saying, after playing for six hours. "The streak lives on." He later tells an executive at the Palms hotel on a phone call that he's done playing at the casino, the fourth of his life at the time, after being told they don't want him participating.
