Jean-Robert Bellande launches new poker website
To casual poker fans Jean-Robert Bellande appears to be one of the superstars of the poker world, always partying and surrounded by beautiful women, but “Bobby” (as he is known in the poker world) has a dirty little secret (well it’s not really a secret since he points it out all the time) that is the reason most poker enthusiasts know and love about him: Most of the time the former Survivor contestant is BROKE!
Bellande is known for massive bankroll swings in the high-stakes cash-games in Las Vegas (usually on someone else’s dime) and his larger than life personality. Despite his seeming degeneracy, Bellande has endeared himself in the poker world for his ability to poke fun at himself, and simply for being “Bobby”.
Even without money Bellande somehow manages to live like a millionaire (he is basically the Kramer of the poker world: never any money coming in but plenty of it going out), which is the impetus for his Twitter account handle BrokeLivingJRB, and now a newly launched website JRBPoker.com.
Bellande fans (he has over 30,000 Twitter followers) can now follow one of the most colorful characters in the poker world even more closely as JRBPoker.com will feature blogs videos, poker strategy and even some pretty cool Broke Living swag.
If you have any doubts as to why Bobby Bellande is a star in the poker world just take a look at how Bobby describes himself on the site’s bio page:
Jean-Robert has consistently taken the most brutal beats in televised poker history. He runs so salty, he can bank on it and so can his opponents. If there is only one card in the entire deck that will give his opponent the hand, that card always seems to show up. Jean-Robert has experienced some of the worst bad beats of anyone in the business. In fact, the TV show, Poker After Dark, did a montage of the beats he’s taken. They labeled him the “unluckiest player in PAD history”.
He is constantly going broke!
But he’s not afraid to talk about it.
That is what sets him apart from other poker players.
Maybe that is why so many people love him…he keeps it real.
Even when the cards are beating him down, JRB is basking in the good life. He makes it seem like bad luck is the best thing that ever happened to him.
Why doesn’t he suffer like the rest of us?
Maybe he does.
If we pay attention, we just might discover his secret to Being broke and livin’ like a millionaire.
So head over to www.JRBPoker.com (the background pictures alone are worth the trip) and stay tuned for the forthcoming iPhone App too!
