Dan Smith (poker player)
| Dan Smith | |
|---|---|
 Dan Smith in 2019 | |
| Nickname(s) | King Dan, Truck Dan, Cowboy Dan |
| Residence | Manalapan, NJ |
| Born | February 23, 1989 |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 23 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish | 20th, 2014 |
| World Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | 1 |
| Final table(s) | 1 |
| Money finish(es) | 3 |
| European Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 4 |
Dan Smith (born February 23, 1989, in Manalapan Township, New Jersey) is an American professional poker player.[2] He now resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has won many titles during his poker career, including a World Poker Tour title and a championship event at the Aussie Millions.
Poker
Dan Smith started playing online poker at the age of 16, before actually reaching the legal gambling age in the US. He is a former chess player who got into college on a chess scholarship, but he decided to stop his studies in 2007 (at 18 years old) to pursue a full-time poker career.[3]
His first cash and victory was in 2008 when he won the Heartland Poker Tour Main Event at Turning Stone Resort & Casino in New York for $101,960. Smith's biggest tournament cash to date came in June 2014 when he won the Bellagio Super High Roller $100,000 buy-in event with a grand prize of $2,044,766. He has over 74 cashes in live poker tournaments and has won over $36,000,000.[4]
2012 was the turning point of Smith's career. He started the year by winning Aussie Millions 100k Challenge event for $1,012,000 AUD.[5] He went on a tear in April at the EPT Monte Carlo Series. In a span of 5 days, he won 3 separate €5000 events for a combined €520,980.[6]
In August of that year he captured the €962,925 first-place prize of the Season 9 EPT Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller.[7]
He has had multiple strong showings during the WSOP, in 2015 he finished 3rd in the $10,000 PLO for $369,564 and in 2014 he finished 20th in the $10,000 Main Event for $286,900. In 2012 he got 7th place in the Partouche Poker tour for €178,496 [8]
All in all, he won six tournaments in 2012 and eventually won the 2012 GPI POY [9] and finished runner up in the cardplayer POY to Greg Merson [10] and also runner up in the Bluff Poy to Marvin Rettenmaier [11]
In December 2013, Dan took down the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $1,161,135.[12]
In July 2016, he finished 2nd in WSOP $111,111 No Limit Hold'em High Roller for One Drop for $3,078,974.[13]
In September 2014 he was ranked 1st in the world by the Global poker index.[14] In September 2018 he placed 3rd in the WSOP $1 million Big One for One Drop event for $4,000,000.
As of August 2019, Smith's live tournament winnings exceed $36,700,000.[15]
References
- ^ Hendon Mob
- ^ "Dan smith"
- ^ "Dan Smith's Life: Biggest Profits, Losses and Net Worth". Somuchpoker. April 9, 2020. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
- ^ Hendon Mob
- ^ Card Player
- ^ "Bluff Magazine". Archived from the original on December 29, 2014. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
- ^ Poker News
- ^ Hendon Mob
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- ^ [2]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 29, 2014. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
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- ^ [3]
- ^ GPI
- ^ Dan smith Hendon Mob Database