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FX Trader Spends $323,483 At Liverpool Night Club
In what could be the largest (known) bartab in history, an unknown gentleman spent £203,948.80 ($323,483 at the closing GBPUSD spot rate) at Liverpool nightclub PlayGround - a purchase which included a £125,000 bottle of the world's most expensive champagne, Nebuchadnezzar of Armand de Brignac Midas, as well as a whole lot of other drinks, including among them 42 instances of "Pussy" at a low price of £3.00 (the Dire Straits definitely had that part right). The man "was there with about ten friends on a private table but after the big bottle came in they were mobbed by gorgeous girls." As for the man's background: an FX trader believed to be "in his early twenties." Sure enough, this will hardly help bridging the already uncrossable chasm between the 99ers (of whom virtually all can live for this amount for at least one year) and the "balance." Naturally, every hedge fund will now scramble to find and hire said generous patron, who due to his age one can assume was not former SNB head, and comparable FX trading whiz-kid, Philipp Hildebrand.
From The Sun:
Clubbers watched in shock as the man, believed to be a foreign exchange currency trader in his twenties, ordered it.
Nightclub boss George Panayiotou ordered the DJ to play the iconic opening music to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey — Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra as it was ferried to the trader's table.
One clubber said: "The club went wild when he popped this huge bottle of champagne, and they were handing out glasses of champagne to everyone in the VIP room.
"There must have been about 60 of them at any time vying for his attention and he then ordered shots for every single woman in the club."
And that kids, is why going to college is overrated, and everyone should start frontrunning central banks at the earliest age possible.
Those curious what the club is like, here is a clip from the opening:
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But did he get shagged?
Yeah, but strip clubs are not included in the CPI.
He clearly has much more money than game.
Odds are that he'll be broke sometime in the next few years and then will lie awake at night wishing he hadn't blown £200k in a shitty nightclub buying drinks for ugly tarts...
+ 1
Like a lottery winner. US$300,000 just isn't enough!
Pussy at least was cheap!
If I had that much cash, i would immediately fly to Bangkok and do my coke and hookers there and save 90%
Rule for life: Never believe what a stripper tells you. Ever. She is not on your side. Ever. Remember this. It is essential to be on your guard when at strip clubs, and generally speaking I do not recommend going to strip clubs at all. Remember, as Chris Rock says, there is no sex in the champagne room (unless you’re in Thailand, the Dominican Republic, etc)
http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/07/avoiding-bar-scams/
"Rule for life: Never believe what a stripper tells you."
In other news, researchers find shocking evidence that the Earth is round.
Next time, stop at the hookers and blow in Bangkok act. That was at least halfway funny.
More on the champagne
http://webpages.charter.net/allstarmo/ace/midas.jpg
Young foreigner FX trader who goes bezerk with booze and nekkid women.
Sounds like a proper gulf state young moslem FX trader. He probably was nostalgic for his harem back home.
He will never be broke.
Wait til he finds out about german FKK clubs.
doesn't islam forbid sex outside of marriage? i'm sure he is a very nice boy and would not do such.
except maybe with infidels? :)
This trader will someday curse karma.
Pussy is cheap and champagne pricey in that joint. Either way, if you get the quality of pussy shown in the video 42 times the tab was probably worth every penny.
crap job fake tit pussy is for virgins.
dumbass is now $323,483 POORER
should have invested in a Obama fund raiser dinner and get a seat in a real club.
That bottle is way cool
I would have been on a mission to add that to my collection that night....
125000.00 thats sick
All those prices seem ridiculously inflated.... 1000 per liter of Grey Goose?
I see Gratuity has no amount visible, what would be the % in Liverpool?
Whata chump....
a club of the usual dbags retards and gold digging whores.
yep...an 8 ball pretty much rents any one of them
One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head (HQ Audio)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9mwELXPGbA (3:56)
...but she said she a premed student who needed money for tuition....and those sparkling, honest eyes told me she was an honest working gal.....working her way....thru school....
I second that!
i neither have game nor bling, tonight Jim Beam is my friend.
yes, i do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzqQst-Sg8
all alcohol, and no food. clearly, he didn't want to ruin a good buzz...
http://www.playgroundliverpool.com/ see videos
models and bottles
whores and boors
I think I'd rather go to a Suicide Girls party
Took a look at the Playground web site. Skanky ho's a'plenty. Snooki would fit right in. Is a Liverpool spinoff of Jersey Shore in the works?
the music playing made be back out as soon as i could...
""Pussy" at a low price of £3.00"
Fucking outsourcing!
no booze in a Pussy!just a beverage
I need his trading strategy...before he gets suicided..just sayin..
www.economicaldepression.blogspot.com
Liverpool?
Well, in any case, score one mark for "trickle-down economics"...
BTW I think "Pussy" is the new Red Bull - obviously a product specifically designed for moneyed D-bags in nightclubs to yell out for in really witty/creative ways.
The guy who came up with that marketing concept can keep this receipt on his resume forever.
Yea I miss Ron as well. I dont care for all this contentious "99%" or "1%" bullshit.
Look up "Sum Poosie." It is/was (don't know if it still exists, can't be bothered to look it up) an energy drink that was designed solely for that purpose -- giving douchebags a chuckle while they order it at the bar. There's also a place in LA called "Pink Taco" whose only claim to fame is the suggestive name. Marketers FTW!
Did Bernanke do that when he was 23?
Nah, the Schmuck was too busy studying the Great Depression.
Pussy was only $3?
Interesting dynamic going on at that club.
Ugh, sounds about as appetizing as a 35 cent taco.
I ate quite a lot of those when I visited Mexico. They were very tasty..."muy, muy rico!" I can´t really promise that they were FDA approved but on the other hand NutraSweet is so that argument is pretty much out the window any way.
In Soviet London, 35 cent taco eats you!
I am pretty bearish on "Pussy"
I like the way he also ordered 42 pussys at £3 per pussy
He sounds like a classy guy.
www.marketblip.com
and that my friend is when the Beautiful girls showed up......hmmmmmm...coincidence...ya don´t say
Fiat money and its numerous consequences.
I swear honey, I was nowhere near Liverpool that night.
http://vegasxau.blogspot.com
What happens in Liverpool, STAYS in Liverpool...
a big pool of damaged livers?
Hookers and blow generally cost a lot less.
Don't know if I'd trust $3.00 pussy. Yeah, humanity is "winning" for sure.
I don't know if I'd hump 3 dollar pussy with Paul Krugman's dick.
He HAS a dick? Who knew?
Nice "service" charge?
They must have charged extra for the music when they delivered the expensive bottle of champagne...
Actually, somebody picked up a 10% tip equal to $19,821 USD just for lugging that 30-liter Nebuchadnezzar over to the table.
Sounds like this foreign currency trader was somewhat of a tightwad. Mark Cuban (owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise) reportedly left a 22% tip for his team's bar tab in their post-game celebration after winning the NBA Title last season:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/mark-cuban-will-pay-...
Now that's odd. Cubans hardly ever tip.
But, if we didn't give him the "Mega-Tab" Bonus, he was going to go work at BOA!
He told us so!
We have to keep out talent! It's in line with the market!
Not just anyone can leverage free money for a 5% return! He's magic
Liverpool?
Liver-freaking-pool?
You should see them in London
My thoughts exactly.
Never a dull night at Whisky Mist!
$3 Pussy?
Wash, rinse, repeat, wash it some more, add bleach, scrub with comet, rinse, zap with UV light, wash again, rinse, spray with Febreeze.....
give it to the guy sitting next to you.
UGH!
I wonder if he trickled down to the waitstaff. A 15% tip would be $48,522.45.
The 10% service charge is the tip.
Of course, a shitty 10% off gross to boot.
I guaruntee he sipped some ass-schmega delivered from a waiter, who in turn laughed his ass off in the kitchen
Thank heaven for small pleasures...
As a member of the 1%; He left $1.33. Do I detect more photoshop here?
There aren't that many Pounds in all of Liverpool combined; unless that's a weight ticket, and we're talking about the women in the club that night...
I found footage of the event !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jv9jONeVxw
That girl is hot.
That looked like any 50 Cent video but with crappier production and better music... Hey, it´s relative, I didn´t say I liked it.
it's a Lebonese tradition
i'm prepared to dress up like a tranny next time an Arab wants to pour away a few hundred grand ...ring my hands-free mobile in my new Ferrari and i'll let you know how i'm dealing with the degradation
Zola,
Now we know why Oil Prices have to be so high. Talk about throwing Money around. I would be like that little boy scooping it off the ground.
don't hate the playa
Get over it, it's a service economy.
"A spade"
Steven's 20% cut should be just enough to pay off his student loans for that liberal arts degree he received before becoming a night club server
Smart kid. He should get pussy free of charge.
Don't worry, there is a pussyhedge in there somewhere...
you want pussy for under £3 a shot?
..grab a spade and try the graveyard
10oz Gold bar for a tip...
hey, if you've got it, flaunt it!
Ok. that's an amusing story, but how do you 'front-run' a central bank, pray tell??
You become a client of Larry Meyer
He must have been following your reverse Stolper trade recos.
Thanks, but unfortunately 75 grand for that service is beyond my scope and I'm too lazy to run for congress.
Bernanke Bucks!
Like Chevy chase in Fletch, hey, tip yourself each $20k, put it on the Bernanke Tab.
just a tid-bit off subject regarding grandiose extravaganza's --- Richard Milhouse Nixon as president would invite guest,... usually wealthy business men and other well connected political contributors to his fund raising yacht parties, offering up very expensive wines and champagne's. thus flaunting the never ending flow of such exquisite generosity. while all the time the guest were drinking to their delight and getting buzzed, he would recycle the original bottles thought to be just opened, to be filled with cheap inexpensive wine and champagne. all the while Nixon laughed his ass off with the yacht's first mate and dining crew at the fool's gorging themselves on Napa Valley's Best . true story
Good story, thank you Earle.
Adam smith is turning in his grave.
I can only imagine the speed Mises and Rothbard are spinning in their graves with.
Adam Smith ,The Wealth of Nations
Book I: On the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Powers. On Labour, and on the Order According to Which its' Produce is Naturally Distributed Among the Different Ranks of the People.
On the Profits of Stock" ...
In a country too, where, though the rich or the owners of large capitals enjoy a good deal of security, the poor or the owners of small capitals enjoy scarce any, but are liable, under the pretence of justice, to be pillaged and plundered at any time by the inferior mandarins, the quantity of stock employed in all the different branches of business transacted within it can never be equal to what the nature and extent of that business might admit. In every different branch, the oppression of the poor must establish the monopoly of the rich, who, by engrossing the whole trade to themselves, will be able to make very large profits. ..."
There's hefty VAT on that bill
The UK's dept/GDP ratio is now only 899.9%.
He singlehandedly shaved 0.1% off the UK's debt
Ata boy!
+ 1 LOL
Stimulus!
The actual bill was only GBP 154,000 odd, the gubbermint got their 20 points via VAT (GBP 30,000 odd) which boosted it to 185k. Consumer economy and all, right?
pussy is only 3.00? no wonder he orderd 42 of em.
Even if i had a billion i wouldn't order a bottle like that. That's just idiotic and just says " look at me". Who needs that?
You can buy a hell of of a lot of Andre for that kind of scratch.
Perhaps you failed to notice the line that said, "...after the big bottle came in they were mobbed by gorgeous girls". And if ya can't be Waybe Rooney or Jeter or Lebron, well....
Apropos of nothing, I wonder if all the outraged feminists backing the slutty law student who "can't afford to fuck so I want the Govt to pay for it" will have any comment on this.
One of many reasons why the world is so fucked up is that women get wet for these assholes. Money, power, superficial charm, and the attitude of the entitled alpha male. This is like the peacock's tail: A trait that is detrimental to the species yet becomes ever more decadent and draining. Chasing the peacock's tail becomes a Darwinian imperative simply because all other females are chasing that tail, but this is a doomed strategy. The peacock will eventually become extinct because of its tail. If a species is to achieve great things, sexual selection must align with the traits that allow it to exploit its niche. For example, the falcon's record feats of speed and acrobatics are due to its courtship ritual, which in turn enhances its predatory niche of attacking other birds in mid-air.
Imagine a world where women chased alturism and intelligence. These traits would increase and ultimately bring disaster for the elites. This is one reason for the constant stream of consumerism, keeping up with the Joneses, celebrity worship, stupidity worship, etc. The elites define status, get everyone chasing it, and decide who gets the fake paper to fulfill their fake dreams. I think women are more easily manipulated by status, fads, consumerism and TV, the elites know this, and they use it to selectively breed out the men who they have marginalized through economics. And pussy, even the ever-receding mirage of potential pussy, can be a great conformity enforcer. It is one of the reasons I have a house and a mortgage.
"Imagine a world where women chased alturism and intelligence"....isn't that what John Lennon sang about?
Not...
As a formerly entitled Alpha Male, I resent that remark.
Or rather, I would, if I hadn't gotten married.
you are beyond hope. sorry.
Said in good fun...
May you recognize the irony of a world drowning in its shallowness.
well, blame men for that. It is we who provided a safe environment where women can put on a pants suit and go sit in an office and pretend to work and they get a real paycheck for it.
So women no longer need a decent man. They can use men as sex objects and the ones that are the highest desire sex objects are those who are alphas who treat women like shit. The caveman, high test guys. The worse you treat hoez the more they like you.
You add in the divorce law situation and the lack of stigma...why should a woman not go for the high status guy? it's zero risk. Now, a little age and wisdom shows that this tendency just gets them dipped and flipped and served like flapjacks by guys like me, but wtf eh? The system makes you HAVE to be a douchebag or else you just get stepped on.
I feel bad for the low test beta dudes without big dicks and fat stacks and who ain't been had $100s...you can either have an average girl at best or get sloppy 30ths from some girl who's gotten past prime enough that alphas won't give her the time of day any longer and all of the bitterness and jadedness that comes with that
Truth with the abusive alpha chimp thing. We are our own worst enemies, both men and women, and Darwin probably deserves as much blame as the elites. And it cuts both ways. Guys need to stop falling for girls with tit sizes higher than their IQs. The end of the story is that so many people end up disappointed in this fucked up game and we don't even have the self-awareness to figure out why. I'll probably end up waiting for silver to blow up and then, knowing that American women are the most shallow and money-grubbing in the entire world, I will get a mail-order bride from Thailand who will turn out to be a scammer or a tranny crack whore or something. That will be my punishment for being disgusted with the game.
Wow, that is one of the saddest comments I've read on this site. Truly I hope you are being sarcastic. There are people of quality to be found, perhaps you are looking in the wrong places? I guess I should thank you for reminding me how fortunate I am to be in such a passionate, mutally respectful relationship. Oh yeah, just FYI, I have 2 friends that got philappino mail order brides that got screwed royally... just not in the way they wanted.
Beauty x Brains= Constant
Miffed:-)
Fitting that the bottle is named after Nebuchadnezzar. Wonder if this trader has ever heard the story about his son...
pffttt big deal, I play that music every time I open a beer and a flock of ladies also begin to hover around me. Yeah, they're scraggy old bar flies but if you rub your eyes hard and then look real quick, it's not much different.
They might not be much to look at, but the "skill" level is way higher. Them high-milers can go. Good on ya, mate!
Acid Rasta - That was funny but don't you be ditchin on the cougars!
The Sun is getting desperate with BS stories.
FX trader in Liverpool! LOL
Why did a shitty night club in Liverpool have a £125k bottle of champagne anyway?
Money in a good hands
The bottle retails at £44,990 inluding VAT.
Markup Bitchez!
http://www.drinksdirect.co.uk/acatalog/Armand_de_Brignac_Brut_Gold_NV_30ltr.html
haha
I know. At least fly eveyone out to Dubai for a few days. Liverpool!!!
Europe/UK media has lost the plot.
Liverpool?
They don't even sell that champagne in the top clubs or restaurants in London! What the fuck is Liverpool? Some northern oik city where everyone has a stupid accent like frikkin Ringo Starr? If you were such a hot shot, why would you even be there, of all places? Doesn't make sense.
Well I suppose the seriously well paid footballers need somewhere local to go to, they get laughed at if they go to Manchester ;O)
It's a publicity stunt for the trader and the club both. Many kinds of yelling "here i am, buy me".
Oh, and so he could get shagged a lot.
OK FiSHeS:
Is the top in or will Ben print us into prosperity and rainbow shitting unicorns?
Top is in and sell is on. Nasdaq bubble popping, Oil crunch dropping (divergence from equities is frightening). ECB has f*cked up EZ bond prices and added confusion to the CDS market.
and China...
Print jobs might not be able to do much now but add to volatility.
What we really need now is a high profile perp walk to announce "Run you f@ckers!"
Nothing like handcuffs, slick lawyers, and camera flashes to start the sprint to the exits.
We still have a ways to go. When you see Dow 20,000 and $2 million bartabs, you'll know the storm is close.
Those that spend it like they stole it, did.
This faggot will be a headline again, most likely without his head.
i got to get in the nightclub business
Sell signal
cocaine is a helluva drug
He is not a FX trader. He shorted AAPL the day before.
Must have been a nice looking boyfriend
At my average income since "The Great Recession" (puh-leeese!) I could make it for 25 years on that bar tab alone.
story is tabloid BS, no institutional trading in Liverpool, might have been a footballer though?
Exactly how did the guy pay?
Cash?
Credit card? Only Amex would likely let something go through at that level.....even then.......
Lets see, I'm young, just blown away my career on some stupid trade/mistake/overleverage whatever and (somehow) I have a tab or some other means to be billed for some ridiculous amount at a silly bar that I'll never be able to repay. I'm toast, so what the hell?
There's a fraud in here somewhere I wager.....
Funny thing is..he is probably gay...lol
London is to New York City
as Liverpool is to ...?
Pittsburgh?
$3 crackhoes and $125,000 bottles in the middle of nowhere ... Ballin on a Budget!
Cleveland :)
Detroit?
No one gets out alive.
Does he make mortgage payments, or does he squatt..??
Well if he was a non UK resident, then he would get the $30k VAT back at the airport....and what the feck is that 10% service charge..??
$19k for serving a couple of bottles of booze..?
LOL and he'd have to declare it to Treasury as it's more than 10k...which would probably get him sent to Gitmo where he'd be tortured until he admitted to insider trading or gave up his strategy...
Models and Bottles Bitchez
Ah, the 'northern look'.... Walking around that crappy downtown with the Scouse girls staggering by wearing absolutely next to nothing in below zero weather holding each other's hair back while they puke in the gutter ('sidewalk pizzas' they call them). Another 6pm in Liverpool.
The comments here are funnier than the article. I haven't had this much reading in years!
...LMAO, ''Nebuchadnezzar''. ...well the writing is on the Great Wal Mart of China ...ain't it now.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%204:30-33&version=KJV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_ZDt-rS9c&feature=relmfu
Bring on the great cull
When your "nightclub" is in a Liverpool Hilton fake publicity stunts are understandable. Believing them is not.
hahaha grey goose Vodka? Any club that doesn't have Polish Belevdre is no good in my books.
FX traders running 300K plays is so 1980's. Half, no 90% of the market is HFT gaming.
Anyways the UK/North is a deadzone. Looking forward to the 2012 riots redux, in fact the whole of the EZ.
drink Tito's, it's american...and it's pretty good actually. If you can't get balinoff
Talk about trolling for tire biters.
I think you'd catch something in there
Those tire biters all look like Snake Pliskin in a dress?
Freaky man freaky
oh. i forgot. islam forbids drinking booze. but i'm sure he's a very nice boy. so i'm sure he wasn't drinking.
WHy would someone pay 350,000 dollars to get drunk? This man has to be a mental midget.
Go long pussy. $3 has to be a market bottom.
He could have had 200 Oz of Au, one day he will regret this...
More to this than meets the eye: a payoff of a bet, gambling debt, or money-laundering.