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• On a poker forum Two Plus Two, user TarantulaGargantu told the extraordinary story of the night Gravesen lost an absolute fortune. The story goes: “I can confirm he has made £80m but it did not.
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• After earning millions throughout his career, former Everton and Real Madrid midfielder Thomas Gravesen decided to invest his earnings in becoming a professional poker player in Las Vegas – now boasting an estimated worth in excess of £80 million.

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. Gravesen didn't do too bad in the game financially. In fact, at the height of his fame - playing at the Bernabeu - he was reportedly earning £85,000-per-week in 2005. Thomas Gravesen has spoken out over rumours that he made a £100 million fortune after eight years living the high life in Las Vegas. Premier League legend Gravesen had a career which took him from selling used car parts to playing for Everton, Celtic and Real Madrid. Known as Mad Dog during his days on the pitch, he hung up his boots in 2008.

​'Only £100m? Where's the rest!'

That's the response Thomas Gravesen gave when he was asked about his net worth years after retiring from professional football.

The Dane was always an enigmatic character throughout his playing career, but interest in him has surged in recent years after stories broke claiming he had amassed a fortune following the end of his playing career.

Professional Football Career

While certainly not the most decorated footballer of all time, Gravesen's club career included spells with some pretty high profile teams.

He rose to prominence in Germany with Hamburg before making the switch to Merseyside with ​Everton, featuring in over 150 games for the Toffees.

The Dane made a surprising move to Real Madrid in 2004 - he would later admit he initially thought the approach came from Atletico, not Los Blancos - though his two seasons at the Bernabeu ended without a trophy.

The only competition successes he enjoyed came at Scottish giants Celtic, winning the Premier League and Scottish Cup double during the 2006/07 season before re-signing for Everton for his final campaign in professional football.

He also represented Denmark on the international stage, scoring five goals in 66 caps and featuring at Euro 2000, the 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004.

A Gravelly Enigma

Gravesen made plenty of headlines for his alleged offbeat personality.

During his Everton days he and Wayne Rooney, who had just broken onto the scene and established himself as a regular under David Moyes at the time, shot fireworks at each other in an old gym, leading current West Ham boss Moyes to remark: 'He was a good lad but mental.'

In August 2006, he was involved in a training scuffle after nailing Brazilian Robinho with a hard tackle, which saw former ​Real manager Fabio Capello ​admit: 'The way he is, we won't have problems with him. He's just a little bit peculiar. I don't mess with him, he works well tactically.

'His behaviour is like this, and I don't like it, everything has to be done like he wants it to be done.'

He also knocked out legendary striker Ronaldo's tooth...

Living in Las Vegas

In 2013, it was reported by Danish outlet ​BT that the mysterious Gravesen had set up shop in Las Vegas with his partner Kamila Persse, who works in real estate. His neighbours included tennis stars Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, and Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage.

He was seen out and about driving in a Mercedes SLR McLaren, which cost around ¢500,000 and had a top speed of 208mph - which is pretty fast and perfect for running errands in.

That same report from 2013 added that the former midfielder was 'good for a huge, unknown million' - while BT stop short of explicitly saying Gravesen made investments, ​the Sun and ​Eurosport both explicitly make that exact claim.

A Man Shrouded in Mystery

How Gravesen made his rumoured millions is still yet to be completely clarified.

One story that first emerged on poker forum ​Two Plus Two is that Gravesen became embroiled in a high-stakes poker game.

A post from from a user named TarantulaGargantu - yep, really - ​revealed: 'I can confirm he has made £80m but it did not come easy. I was there in one of the sessions where he was playing some guy heads-up and lost £54m in one night. Can't say who it was against, though.'

TarantulaGargantu can't be tracked down as the user is no longer part of Two Plus Two, so the identity of the player who lost to Gravesen may never be revealed.

Thomas Gravesen enjoyed a decent football career, performing with distinction at a number of clubs before securing a move to galatico-era Real Madrid, where, it has to be said, his technical limitations at the very highest level were exposed.

But 66 appearances for Denmark, including appearances at both World Cups and European Championships, are not to be sniffed at and by all accounts, the midfielder retired, aged just 32, with a comfortable little nest egg to see him thought until his dotage.

At the time he was criticised for not making the most of his talents. He was in a relationship with a porn star called Kira Eggers and the suspicion in the press was that in the party-loving Gravesen, Denmark might have unearthed its very own Paul Gascoigne.

However, Gravesen has proved all his doubters wrong and then some.

According to Danish newspaper BT, he invested his career earnings in a number of financial ventures and struck gold.

He is now reported to be worth over €100m and has just announced his second ‘retirement’ at the age of 37.

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To celebrate his life of leisure, Gravesen has to Las Vegas with his latest partner – a Czech-born American model Kamila Persse – where he plans to spend the rest of his days indulging in his passion for gambling.

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According to the paper: poker, roulette and blackjack are amongst his favourite games.

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Thomas Gravesen in Las Vegas. Where did it all go wrong…?