Few players know the City of Angels as well as Jean-Robert Bellande, the ex-nightclub promoter who bankrolled his way into poker via the city’s pool-halls. The 35-year-old has established his reputation as a fearsome cardsman during long nights at the famous Commerce, Bicycle and Hustler casinos, and is now one of the best-connected poker players in Hollywood. The life Bellande has made for himself in Los Angeles is pretty impressive, so there’s no one better to show us what really goes down in LA after dark.

Bellande meets us at one of the world’s premier high-roller locations, the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, on the night of an invitational hold’em tournament.