Rick Salomon is an American entrepreneur, film producer and poker player. He is most famous for his sex tape with Paris Hilton and due to his marriage with former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson. Salomon plays mostly in private high stakes cashes, but also shows himself during the biggest ever buy-in tournaments in history. We will give you bit of an insight in the life of a true High Stakes businessman, which adores playing poker.

The Ricky Rich Family

Rick Salomon is the son of former Warner Bros. executive vice president Robert Jess Salomon. It would not surprise anyone that Rick would give it a try as well within Hollywood. He has worked as an actor but is also a producer of movies such as ‘My sister’s keeper’ (2009), ‘Alpha Dog’ (2006), and ‘Who’s Your Caddy?’ (2007).

There is not much known about his childhood and teenager/early adult life, but it all kicked off for Rick in the gambling industry with owning a gambling site. Aside from that he was a film producer and entrepreneur, as well as known for being a ‘celebrity dater’. In 2004 when the sex tape with Paris Hilton got leaked, he first was in a couple of major lawsuits with the Hiltons, before pulling himself back from it and eventually selling the video himself, with given title ‘1 Night in Paris’. The Hiltons for example accused him of having sex with a minor, which eventually was never proven, mostly because Paris Hilton was 19 at the time of happening.

Cash Games Finest

Within the same time, he entered the film industry and he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams. This is also the first time that he got in touch with poker. He actively played in privately organized poker games in the Los Angeles area. Rick has always been a cash player of such, and never was interested in tournament poker. However, the first registered live cash of Salomon dates back to July 2005, where he finished 13^th in the Larry Flynt Grand Slam of Poker Main Event, a tournament where former ‘Spiderman’ Tobey Maguire also made it to the money.

His first real deep run in a poker tournament was during the $1000 buy-in Bellagio Cup IV in Las Vegas in 2006. He scooped the tournament and took home $125,715 and his, until the day of today, only registered tournament victory.

At the same time, he was making name in Hollywood, by acting and producing in several movies. But Rick ran hot in private poker cash games all over the world. With already being married shortly to Pamela Anderson, they re-married back in 2014. After divorcing again, many lawsuits followed, in which one of them pointed out that Salomon had won presumably over $40 Million in a private cash game of Banker tycoon Andy Beal, held at the Bellagio in 2014.

$1,000,000 Tournaments Seem to Be Peanuts for Rick

In that same year, he cashed for the first time in The Big One for One Drop during the World Series of Poker, a tournament with a buy-in of $1,000,000. He managed to triple up his money by finished 4^th, behind Christoph Vogelsang, Daniel Negreanu and winner Daniel Colman.

Two years later he managed to relive the momentum during the $1,000,000 buy-in tournament during the Monte Carlo One Drop Extravaganza, finishing 3^rd and tripling up his investment. Elton Tsang from Hong Kong ran away with the victory after beating Russian Anatoly Gurtovy heads-up.

Another two years later, history kept repeating itself. Rick Salomon managed to cash again in the biggest ever buy-in tournament of the world, finishing 4^th again for $2,840,000. This time American Dan Smith, German Fedor Holz and American Justin Bonomo, kept him from winning the event.

With just 13 registered cashes in live tournaments, with total life earnings of $9,906,283 it is to say that Rick Salomon is quite an act on itself. Not many players can say the same, to say the least. However, these cashes presumable are just a tip of the iceberg for him, as most of his time he invests in private cash games all over the world against the richest business people and best poker players in the world. Unfortunately, there are no real numbers available from these games, but we can assure you they are not like any local cash game scores.

He did also star in many televised cash games such as Poker After Dark, High Stakes Poker, and Rob’s Home Game.

Rick Solomon Claims Doug Polk Called the Cops

During a cash game on POkerGo’s stream, Rick Salomon claimed that Doug Polk once had called the police on him for not letting Doug Polk entering a private cash game organized in The Venetian. Salomon was playing heads-up at the time and kindly thanked for Doug Polk asking if he was allowed to enter the game. Eventually the other player got arrested by the police, based on drug possession. Until today, Doug Polk is denying every bit of it all.

Rick Salomon Poker Tournament Results

Date	Tournament Name	Buy-In	Place	Cash Prize
Jul/06	WSOP Main Event, Last Vegas	$       10.000	196th	$        42.882
Jul/06	Bellagio Cup II, Las Vegas	$         1.080	1st	$      125.715
Jun/14	WSOP #57 The Big One for One Drop, Las Vegas	$  1.000.000	4th	$   2.800.000
Oct/16	WSOP One Drop Extravaganza, Monte Carlo	$  1.000.000	3rd	$   3.307.206
Jul/18	WSOP #78 The Big One for One Drop, Las Vegas	$  1.000.000	4th	$   2.840.000
Nov/18	Fall Madness High Roller, Las Vegas	$     103.000	2nd	$      672.000