Dana White: There’s nights I beat the casinos for $5,000,000
Dana White: “What would you do if you put a $50,000 hand up there and you have to split ‘em? There’s nights I beat the casinos for $5,000,000.”
UFC President Dana White does two things really well: promote fights and play black jack. Promoting fights is his job and playing black jack is a stress reliever. Although most us would probably be stressed playing for the amount of money White plays at the table:
“It’s the rush and excitement of all rushes,” White told reporters at a Monday media luncheon which was ostensibly meant to promote UFC 169. “What would you do if you put a $50,000 hand up there and you have to split ‘em? There’s nights I beat the casinos for $5,000,000.”
He grew even more animated when he talked about leaving Palazzo and heading out to the Las Vegas Strip with one of those multi-million dollar hauls, in cash, underneath his arms.
“I’m like, are you serious? We’re going to get killed,” White said. “They don’t have some kind of suitcase where they put the money in. ‘You just beat us, here you go.’ That’s really the attitude. They just stack it all up there and go ‘thanks, have a great night.’ We’ve had trash bags, we got to the point we started bringing our own bags.”
