In a recent interview with Card Player magazine, the controversial and self proclaimed playboy Dan Bilzerian claimed that both Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey had blown their poker bankrolls at the tables.

When asked what he thought of the poker community, Bilzerian stated he thought it?s ?kind of a degenerate group and people think they can win money forever.?

He then went on to say that this mentality leads to players going broke: ?If you look at Tom Dwan, he went broke; Phil Ivey just went broke. All these talented guys who made a bunch of money end up pissing it all away.?

Such a claim may not come as a huge surprise with regard to Dwan, who recently went public over his biggest ever loss in Macau ?which was reportedly around $4m- and cut ties with former sponsors Full Tilt Poker.

But Ivey is considered a poker demigod by most that follow the game, his bankroll a bottomless pit capable of enduring endless nauseating swings. It has always seemed inconceivable that Ivey would fall from grace.