Does Dana White have a gambling problem? According to the UFC CEO, the only ones who have a problem are the casinos in Las Vegas that he’s currently crushing at the Baccarat table.
On the more hush hush side of the story, The Hollywood Reporter recently ran a story pegging Dana’s unpaid Red Rocks Casino losses at around $30 million … good thing he’s buddies with former UFC owner Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, who also run Red Rocks.
White denies there’s any truth to that story, which is starting to gain traction just as Netflix prepares to air a documentary that will delve into his baller gambling lifestyle. And Dana wants to double down on that kind of content: he wants to do a live Netflix special where he takes on the casinos in a one night, $30 million showdown.
“Give me 30 f–king million in credit. Let me bet a million dollars a hand, and let’s go, me versus you,” White pitched on Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant podcast. “I’m working on a whole deal with this thing right now. The Netflix thing is different, I’m doing a documentary on Vegas. I’m doing that, but I I wanna do another thing with Netflix too: me versus the house.”
“You you come in like a title fight, and it’s me versus them. They show all the odds on why they should win, I should win, and we go one night, a million a hand. We do a Netflix show like we did for the Canelo vs. Crawford fight.”
Maybe he can do it at the Red Rocks Casino, double or nothing style. Whatever the truth of that debt is, White says he’s currently flying high on a wild run of luck playing Baccarat.
“So I started playing baccarat over there with these guys,” White said. “You know, I f–king jump around here and there, and I have not lost since September 1st … or September, like the first week.”
When asked how much he’d taken the casinos for on that run, White only agreed to say a number if it was bleeped and his mouth was obscured so it wouldn’t end up on the internet.
“Wow, how much was Oceans 11?” Schulz said in amazement. “F–king George Clooney back at it. Wow!”
