Çelebrity Poker Player: Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber is young but that didn’t stop him from gambling. He seems to love a game of poker. As Gabe Saporta of Cobra Starship (who opened for Justin on tour) said:

“A hotel we were staying at had a casino. Justin was too young to go into the casino but he wanted to play poker. So he had one of the dealers come up to his suite and have a poker game in his room. He got flushed out by one of his tour managers and was bumming out about losing 200 bucks. He said at the start: I’m not going to lose more than $20.”

About Justin Bieber: It's hard to imagine Justin Bieber without his legion of screaming fans, but Justin had a humble start. After posting dozens of homemade videos on YouTube in 2007, putting his unique spin on songs from artists like Usher, Ne-Yo and Stevie Wonder, Justin racked up over 10,000,000 views on his own.

That’s when celebrity poker player Justin Bieber started posting footage online. He put videos of himself singing on YouTube, mainly to share with friends and family. 

But as it turned out, other people were watching those videos and started subscribing to them. 

One of those people would eventually become Justin’s manager. Within months, Justin was an Internet sensation, with a large following of fans, and an eager manager arranging for the teenager to fly to Atlanta to consider a record deal. 

There, Bieber had a chance meeting with Usher, who eventually signed the young singer to a contract.

Justin Bieber's first single, "One Time," went certified platinum in his native Canada shortly after its release in May 2009. His album My World matched that success, selling more than 137,000 copies within a week of hitting stores. 

Bieber broke into the Billboard Top 10 in early 2010 with "Baby," which also featured Ludacris. Bieber soon released My World 2.0 (2010), which offered his growing fan base ten new songs.

In 2011, Justin Bieber took to the big screen in the concert documentary Never Say Never. His fans crowded movie theaters to catch him in action on stage and get a glimpse of his life behind the scenes. 

The movie, which eventually earned more than $73 million at the box office, also had guest appearances by Kanye West, Miley Cyrus and Bieber's musical mentor Usher. That same year, Justin Bieber released an album featuring his own take on such holiday classics as "All I Want For Christmas Is," his duet with Mariah Carey.