Dan Smith (poker player)

Dan Smith
Dan Smith (2019)
Personal information
Date of birth	February 23, 1989
place of birth	Manalapan
Nicknames 0	Danny98765PokerStars KingDan23Full Tilt Poker
place of residence	Las Vegas
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0$ 8,765,629
Total prize money	$ 36,742,719
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	36
Best main event	20th ( 2014 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	1
Cashes	3
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	6th
Main Event of the PokerStars Championship
title	no
Cashes	1
Last updated: May 31, 2020

Daniel Steven "Dan" Smith (born February 23, 1989 in Manalapan , New Jersey ) is a professional American poker player .

Smith is considered to be one of the best tournament players in the world. He has earned more than US $ 36.5 million in live poker tournaments , making him the fifth most successful poker player by tournament prize money . From August 27 to December 23, 2014, Smith topped the Global Poker Index (GPI), the world's poker ranking, for 17 consecutive weeks . This set the record for Jason Mercier , who had led the GPI for so long from May 13th to September 10th, 2013. This record is now held by Alex Foxen . In total, Smith was ranked number one for 39 weeks .

childhood and education

Smith was an accomplished chess player in his youth . He studied at the University of Maryland until 2007 , but dropped out due to his poker career. Smith lives in Las Vegas .

Poker career

On-line

Smith plays online under the nicknames Danny98765 ( PokerStars ) and KingDan23 ( Full Tilt Poker ) . His tournament revenue is just under $ 3 million . His best placement in the Pocket Fives ranking, which lists the best online poker tournament players worldwide, was 53rd in 2013. Smith received his highest prize money in late October 2012 by winning the Sunday Million on PokerStars for more than $ 200,000 .

live

Tournament successes

2008–2011: beginnings

Since 2008 Smith can be seen at prestigious live tournaments. In late June 2008, Smith won the Heartland Poker Tour Main Event in Verona for over $ 100,000 in prize money. At the beginning of January 2010, he finished 214th in the main event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in the Bahamas for $ 15,000. In May 2010 , Smith was the first time in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas successful and came once each at events of variants No Limit Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha the money. In mid-May 2011, he finished 22nd at the Main Event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) in San José for $ 25,800. At the beginning of October 2011, Smith was in London for the EPT and secured around 200,000 US dollars in prize money through two final tables at side events.

Overall, Smith had tournament revenue of just under $ 650,000 by the end of 2011.

Since 2012: Successful super high roller

Dan Smith in 2016

In late January 2012, Smith won the A $ 100,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne, his biggest prize to date of over $ 1 million. At the 2012 WSOP , Smith cashed five times and reached a final table. In mid-August 2012 he won the EPT Super High Roller in Barcelona with a prize of almost one million euros . In December 2013, Smith won the WPT Main Event at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas for over $ 1 million in prize money. During the 2014 WSOP , Smith secured victory in a super high roller tournament at the Bellagio and earned his highest prize money to date of over two million US dollars. A few weeks later, he reached seventh place in the main event of the World Series of Poker 2014 and was eliminated there in 20th place for prize money of almost 300,000 US dollars. The end of June 2015 took Smith in the Pot Limit Omaha Championship of the World Series of Poker in third place for around 370,000 US dollars prize money. He reached two final tables at the 2016 WSOP . Smith was third in the Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller for just under $ 500,000 and ended a few days later at the most expensive event on the tournament schedule, the High Roller for One Drop with a buy-in of 111,111 US dollars, behind Fedor wood on the second place. For this, Smith received prize money of more than three million US dollars. Beginning in December 2017, he won the Super High Roller of the Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio with a prize money of 1.4 million US dollars. In March 2018, Smith finished eleventh at the Super High Roller Bowl China in Macau for the equivalent of more than $ 550,000. At the 2018 WSOP , he reached the final table of the Poker Player's Championship and finished third for around $ 520,000. At the most expensive event on the tournament schedule, the $ 1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop , Smith also sat at the final table and again finished third, earning him $ 4 million in prize money. At the Poker Masters 2018 at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, he made the money twice in September 2018 and won prize money of around 750,000 US dollars. In early March 2019, Smith finished third at the Triton Super High Roller Series Main Event in Jeju-do, South Korea, and received the equivalent of more than $ 1.7 million. Early August 2019 he reached the Triton Million for Charity in London, with a buy-in of one million pounds world most expensive poker tournament, the final table , securing his third place his highest ever prize of the equivalent of more than 8.7 million US -Dollar.

In 2016, Smith donated $ 1.7 million of his earnings to charity. For this, he received an American Poker Award in the Charitable Initiative of the Year 2016 category in Beverly Hills in February 2017 .

Prize money overview

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2008	00.132,343	1
2009	00,000.000	-
2010	00.103.239	-
2011	00.393.356	-
2012	03,739,797	6th
2013	01,309,563	1
2014	03,186,314	3
2015	01,062,485	1
2016	05.200.087	4th
2017	04,132,738	4th
2018	06,712,334	1
2019	10,770,469	-
2020	00,000.000	-
total	36,742,719	21st

Web links

Commons : Dan Smith  - Collection of Images

• Dan Smith in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Dan Smith in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Dan Smith in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
• Dan Smith in the database of Pocket Fives (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dan Smith in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on April 15, 2016 (English).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dan Smith in the World Series of Poker database, accessed April 15, 2016.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dan Smith in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 15, 2016.
4. ↑ All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 9, 2019.
5. ↑ Alex Foxen in the Global Poker Index database, accessed May 11, 2019.
6. ↑ KingDan in the PocketFives database, accessed April 15, 2016.
7. ↑ $ 215 Sunday Million [$ 1M Gtd] in PocketFives' database, accessed December 2, 2017.
8. ↑ Heartland Poker Tour ($ 1,500 + 150 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 15, 2016 (English).
9. ↑ PCA - 2,010 ($ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database retrieved (English) on 2 December 2017th
10. ↑ Bay 101 Shooting Stars ($ 9,500 + 500 WPT Shooting Star Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 2, 2017.
11. ↑ EPT - 8 - UKIPT - 2 - London (£ 2,000 + 150 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 2, 2017.
12. ↑ EPT - 8 - UKIPT - 2 - London (£ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Six Max High Roller Turbo) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 2, 2017.
13. ↑ 2012 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 100,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - $ 100,000 Challenge) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 15, 2016.
14. ↑ EPT - 9 - ESPT - 3 - Barcelona (€ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 15, 2016.
15. ↑ WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 15, 2016.
16. ↑ Super High Roller ($ 100,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 15, 2016.
17. ↑ 45th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em (Event # 65)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 15, 2016.
18. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship (Event # 54)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 2, 2017.
19. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016 ($ 25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller (8-Handed) (Event # 62)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 2, 2017.
20. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016 ($ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em High Roller for One Drop (single re-entry) (Event # 67)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 11, 2016 (English ).
21. ↑ WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller # 1) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 2, 2017.
22. ↑ Super High Roller Bowl China (HK $ 2,000,000 + 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Bowl) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 21, 2018 (English).
23. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 50,000 Poker Players Championship (Event # 33)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 20, 2018.
24. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 1,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - The Big One for One Drop (Event # 78)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 18, 2018.
25. ↑ 2018 Poker Masters ($ 25,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed September 17, 2018.
26. ↑ 2018 Poker Masters ($ 100,000 + 3,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 7)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on September 17, 2018 (English).
27. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Jeju (HK $ 2,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju 2019 Main (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 9, 2019.
28. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - London (£ 1,050,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triton Million for Charity (Event # 2)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 3, 2019.
29. ↑ Poker Pro Dan Smith raised $ 1.7 million for charity on pokernews.com on January 5, 2017, accessed December 2, 2017.
30. ↑ 3rd annual GPI American Poker Awards - Winners on americanpokerawards.com, accessed December 2, 2017.