Donald Trump Adds High Stakes Poker Player Andy Beal to His Economic Advisory Panel

American Presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has announced his 13-man economic advisory panel, and there is a seat for Andy Beal, the star of the 2004 book The Professor, the Banker and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time.

Donald Trump announced his economic advisory council on Friday and of the 13 men named one of them was the founder and Chairman of Beal Bank and Beal Bank America, Andy Beal.

Beal and Trump go way back. The potential President-elect once borrowed close to $600m from Beal’s banks to help deal with the fallout of numerous bankruptcies within his casino empire in 2011. Beal is also the biggest donator to the Trump campaign stumping up $449,400, the largest sum a single person can donate. He also gave $100,000 last summer to a pro-Trump super PAC.

One billionaire who has not pledged any cash to Donald Trump is Sheldon Adelson. The casino mogul doesn’t like poker very much. Andy Beal loves it. If Trump is given the green light to turn the world upside down at least Americans might be able to play online poker while the world burns outside.