Jerry Buss, born in Utah and raised in Wyoming, is the owner of the L.A Lakers. He bought the team (along with the LA Kings hockey team) in the largest transaction in sports history in 1979 when he bought both teams for $67.5 million. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Wyoming and a PhD in chemistry at the University of Southern California, before becoming a real estate developer. In 2006, Buss received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Jerry Buss is a familiar face in the poker world. Unlike many of the celebrity poker players around today, Jerry is a long-time card player who has a lifetime passion for the games that his mother taught him when he was just a kid. He was able to play a decent hand of bridge by the time he was 4. He said that he loves the competitive aspect of poker and that poker is one of the few areas where you can still remain competitive after you reach a certain age. Throughout the years he has mainly been a high-stakes cash game player but has been playing more tournaments lately. Jerry is an old-school player whose best game is seven-card stud and said that some of the games are relatively new for him.
He has cashed in 3 WSOP events and 1 WPT event. His most impressive finish was his 3rd place finish in the 1991 WSOP Seven-Card Stud event and 2nd place in a WPT Season One event in 2003. He has played in the GSN series "High Stakes Poker", the NBC late-night series "Poker After Dark", and NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship". He has many cashes in various tournament over the years but has not achieved that one big score that
In 2009, TMZ found Buss sitting by himself playing poker at the Commerce Casino while 150,000 people celebrated the Lakers championship in downtown Los Angeles. Observers said that he wasn’t even watching the parade on the television right above him. Even if Jerry Buss never achieves any impressive accomplishments in the world of poker, there is no doubt that he is a serious poker player.
Along with basketball, Jerry Buss has been open about his fascinated by beautiful women. He has snapshots of almost all the women he has ever dated and stores them in albums in his library ("It's quite a collection," he said in an interview with Sports Illustrated, "I'm up to album eight.") and is frequently seen surrounded by much younger girls. He once owner the Playboy Club in Phoenix and is known to visit the Nevada brothels every year. He even hired Bonnie-Jill Laflin, a nude model in the soft-core porn industry, as an NBA scout.
His daughter Jeanie Buss, who is involved in the Lakers organization, posed for Playboy in six-page spread in the May 1995 issue where she lying naked on her father's desk at the LA Forum. Jerry claims it's the only Playboy he's never looked at. Jeanie, who dated John McEnroe for six months in the mid-'90s, is currently dating Laker coach Phil Jackson.
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My little sister could beat you in a card game LOL! What a fish!