Poker is a challenging game, and few players have incredible skills in it, and Bill Perkins is one of them. He is a film producer, fund manager, high-stakes poker player, and hails from Houston, Texas. He mainly focuses on energy markets and venture capital. He is also the founder of Small Ventures USA, L.P, founded in 1997. After that, in 2002, he joined Centaurus Energy. Currently, he is managing the Energy Hedge fund named Skyla Capital, which is based in Houston. He spent his childhood in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Early life

Bill Perkins is originally named William O. Perkins III, and he was born on February 2, 1969. He grew up in the areas of Jersey City, and his father is a former football player as well as a successful politician. Bill completed his graduation from St. Peter’s Preparatory School in the year 1986.  He also got an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Iowa. In the year 2016, he donated over $1.5 million to the same university, which is quite incredible.

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Career beginning

After being graduated, he started working under John D. Arnold, who was a natural gas trader. He worked with him for numerous years and finally started his own hedge fund. During his 12-year long career, he worked at various positions as he was the director of NorthenStar Natural Gas. He also worked as the Chief Executive Officer of Cutuco Energy Central America. He was quite active in the stock market and traded several stocks. In September 2008, his life and career changed when he earned over $1.25 million in profits by trading Goldman Sachs in the stock market. After making a massive amount of money, he stepped into film production and started producing different films such as Cat Run, After Life, Unthinkable, etc.

Along with being a film producer, Bill Perkins is also famous for his Poker gameplay. He is one of the top poker players in the world and has participated in several top-rated events such as PokerStars Big Game, World Series of Poker Big One for One Drop, High Stakes Poker, Poker Night on Wall Street and many more. He is also one of the closest friends of Dan Bilzerian, one of the most famous poker players. They have been seen together several times. If we talk about the total amount of money that he has earned from the poker tournaments, it was around $5400000 by the end of 2019. Out of this amount, around $1,965,000 was earned from the One Drop cash in the WSOP.

Personal life

Bill Perkins was got married to Stephanie Perk, but soon they separated and ended the relationship. They both have three children. After that, he got into a relationship with Lara Sebastian in 2020. She works as a professional dancer.

Net Worth

Bill Perkins has worked throughout his life to earn money. He has several talents and a fantastic business mind. His total net worth at present is over $65 million.