Dan Smith (poker player)
| Dan Smith | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | King Dan |
| Residence | Manalapan, NJ |
| Born | February 23, 1989 |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 17 |
| 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, NJ) is an American professional poker player. Smith is currently a sponsored member of Team Ivey Poker.[2]
Poker
Dan left college in 2007 to pursue poker full-time.His first cash and victory was In 2008, 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.
2012 was the turning point of Smith's career. He started the year by winning Aussie Millions 100k Challenge event for 1,012,000.[3] 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.[4]
In August of that year he captured the €962,925 first-place prize of the Season 9 EPT Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller.[5]
He also had multiple strong shows during the WSOP, and also got 7th place in the Partouche Poker tour for €178,496 [6]
All in all, he won six tournaments in 2012 and eventually won the 2012 GPI POY [7] and finished runner up in the cardplayer POY to Greg Merson [8] and also runner up in the Bluff Poy to Marvin Rettenmaier [9]
In December 2013 Dan took down the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $1,161,135.[10]
In September 2014 he was ranked 1st in the world by the Global poker index.[11]
As of August 2014, Smith's live tournament winnings exceed $8,800,000.[12]
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