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The story of Andy Beal's poker games with the professional players is covered in the book ''[[The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King]]'' by [[Michael Craig]].
The story of Andy Beal's poker games with the professional players is covered in the book ''[[The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King]]'' by [[Michael Craig]].

Additionally, in the late 1990's Beal discovered a corrolary to Fermat's Last Theorem known as the Beal Conjecture. A prize of $100,000 is available to anyone who can prove Beal's discovery mathematically.





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Andy Beal is a billionaire banker, mathematician, and poker player living in Dallas, Texas. He is most well known for starting Beal Bank and for playing high stakes, heads-up poker against world class professional poker players at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Some of these players include Doyle Brunson, Howard Lederer, and Ted Forrest.

The story of Andy Beal's poker games with the professional players is covered in the book The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King by Michael Craig.

Additionally, in the late 1990's Beal discovered a corrolary to Fermat's Last Theorem known as the Beal Conjecture. A prize of $100,000 is available to anyone who can prove Beal's discovery mathematically.