How Blake Wynn Turned $44 into a Multi-Million Empire in 2025!
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Dive into this explosive episode of Dropping Bombs as Brad Lea sits down with Blake Wynn, nephew of Las Vegas legend Steve Wynn. Discover how Blake turned $44 into a multi-million empire at just 25, flipping sneakers, building a 180-employee marketing agency (clients like Tony Robbins), and launching the Celebrity Poker Tour (CPT)—the most-viewed poker events ever, with chaotic celeb moments like folding straight flushes! Hear untold Wynn family secrets: Steve's rise from bingo losses to controlling the Golden Nugget at 29 amid mafia-era Vegas, visionary designs (Bellagio fountains by Spielberg), and billion-dollar wisdom on grandeur vs. intimacy. Blake shares hustle hacks, dropping out of college, elite room strategies (no fanboying!), and 2025 side-hustle tips—from $44 eBay flips to investing in billion-potential sodas like Lollipop.
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| 0:00.0 | I happen to have $44. God knows how I had it. I go on eBay and I'm like, whoa, these are |
| 0:04.6 | 120 bucks. Was this still mafia controlled, Vegas? I would say Vegas broadly. By the time I'm done |
| 0:11.5 | with my life, I hope Steve's remember is nothing more than my uncle. And that she folded a straight |
| 0:16.4 | flush on the flop because she was so caught up. Like, what the heck just happened? |
| 0:21.1 | I trust Steve. |
| 0:22.5 | Steve told me people react and are... |
| 0:25.6 | What it is, Bradley, back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio. |
| 0:34.2 | Folks, I got a real treat for you, especially if you're a Las Vegas buff. |
| 0:39.3 | This here, Blake Wynn, famous uncle, Steve Wynn from the Wynn Casino, Mirage originally. |
| 0:47.1 | Before that, like dealer. |
| 0:49.0 | All the way back to Golden Nugget. |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah, what was his story like? |
| 0:51.6 | Dude, how did he rise? |
| 0:53.1 | I want to talk more about you too, but you know, |
| 0:56.0 | you can't just skip by Steve Wynn, who's a Las Vegas legend. I'm happy to share it. |
| 1:01.4 | You know, it's so when people don't really know about Steve, he didn't come from much. In fact, |
| 1:06.0 | Steve wasn't even born Steve Wynne. He was born Steve Weinberg. And his father changed the last name when Steve was a couple years old because he wanted to be a sign painter from upstate New York. He wanted to be a sign painter for Coca-Cola. And in those days, Coca-Cola was really anti-Semitic. You know, it's the 40s. And he wanted the job so bad. He said, well, I'll just dump the Jewish last name and we'll switch the name to win. So Steve Weinberg became Steve Wynne. And he went to University of Pennsylvania and then went to Georgetown Law School. And he was at Georgetown and he was 21 years old. My dad is his younger brother who's there 10 and half years apart. So he's 10 Steve's 21 and his father got sick |
| 1:46.2 | and he did open heart surgery but this is in 1962 and the guy that invented open heart |
| 1:54.1 | surgery had only performed it two or three times so my grandfather was the fourth person or |
| 1:58.5 | fifth person he tried to perform open heart surgery on he passed away on the table at 46 years old. So Steve went from being, you know, the son of a bingo business owner in Maryland to now, you know, he inherits debt. He's got a 10-year-old brother who he's now sort of kind of got to be the father for. How old Steve at this Steve's 21 and he's in law school he drops out of law school takes over the bingo businesses |
| 2:22.0 | changes the way they're structured so instead of operating at a $300,000 year loss they start making |
| 2:28.1 | money and he comes to Las Vegas on a whim because before his father died, he said, if anything ever happens to me, |
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