Daniel Cates

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Daniel Cates
Daniel Cates (2018)
Daniel Cates (2018)
  Personal information  
Date of birth November 14, 1989
place of birth United StatesUnited States Bowie
Nicknames
0
w00ki3z.PokerStars

jungleman12Full Tilt Poker
place of residence United KingdomUnited Kingdom London
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,774,145
Total prize money $ 7,381,844
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 2
Best main event 775th ( 2015 )
Last updated: February 2, 2020

Daniel Cates (born November 14, 1989 in Bowie , Maryland ) is a professional American poker player . Due to his success under this nickname, he is nicknamed Jungleman .

Personal

Cates was a good student and got 99 percent on the SAT after high school . He received a computer science degree from Bowie State University . To earn money playing poker, Cates worked for McDonald’s on the side . He lives in London .

Poker career

On-line

Cates started playing online at the age of 17 . He plays under the nicknames jungleman12 ( Full Tilt Poker ) and w00ki3z. ( PokerStars ) . Focusing on cash games, Cates started at the $ 0.25 / $ 0.50 blind level. After losing almost his entire bankroll to Swede Viktor Blom in one session in 2009 and making the money again the following year, Cates accepted Durrrr's Million Dollar Challenge in August 2010 . In the bet offered by Tom "durrrr" Dwan you had to play 50,000 cash game hands at the levels $ 200 / $ 400 heads-up against him and, in the event of a profit after the hands were up, an additional sum of 1, $ 5 million. The bet was paused about halfway through the hands, at which point Cates was up about $ 1.2 million. Over time, Dwan kept paying Cates penalties totaling nearly $ 800,000 for not playing. Overall, he is the third most successful player on the Full Tilt Poker platform with a profit of more than ten million US dollars after Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey . In May 2016 won Cates on PokerStars a tournament of the Spring Championship of Online Poker in the variant No Limit Single Draw with a prize money of nearly 50,000 dollars.

live

Since 2010, Cates has also participated in renowned live tournaments .

At the beginning of April 2012, he took second place behind Scott Seiver at PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker in Vienna for prize money of 300,000 dollars. In mid-February 2014, Cates won the Alpha8 event on the World Poker Tour in Johannesburg with a prize of $ 500,000. At the end of April 2014 he finished second behind Daniel Colman in the Super High Roller of the European Poker Tour in Monte-Carlo for almost 1.3 million euros . In July 2015 , Cates was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and finished 775th in the main event . At the beginning of November 2016 he won the Suncity Cup of the Triton Super High Roller Series in Parañaque in the Philippines with a bonus of around 360,000 dollars. In the same place he finished third at the main event of the Triton Series in February 2017 and received prize money equivalent to one million dollars due to a deal with Koray Aldemir and Sergio Aido . In March 2018, Cates took tenth place at the Super High Roller Bowl China in Macau for the equivalent of almost $ 750,000. In mid-May 2018 he reached the money ranks for prize money equivalent to more than one million dollars at three events of the Triton Series in Budva, Montenegro .

Overall, Cates has earned almost $ 7.5 million playing poker in live tournaments. From April to December 2016 he played as part of the Berlin Bears in the Global Poker League and reached the final with his team.

Web links

Commons : Daniel Cates  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Life of Daniel Cates on gamblingsites.org from October 2016, accessed on May 13, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ jungleman12 on Full Tilt Poker at highstakesdb.com, accessed May 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ w00ki3z. on Pokerstars at highstakesdb.com, accessed May 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ Dan Cates on the durrrr-Challenge - "Dwan gave me between $ 700,000 and $ 800,000" on hochgepokert.com on August 10, 2017, accessed on May 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ Biggest Poker Winners on highstakesdb.com, accessed May 13, 2018.
  6. ↑ SCOOP 2016: So sick! Daniel 'w00ki3z' Cates defeats George Danzer to win Event # 53-H ($ 2,100 NL Single Draw 2-7) on pokerstars.com on May 23, 2016, accessed on May 13, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b Daniel Cates in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 13, 2018 (English).
  8. ↑ PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker V (No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 13, 2018.
  9. ↑ WPT Alpha8 - Johannesburg ($ 97,500 + 2,500 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Alpha8) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 13, 2018.
  10. ↑ EPT - 10 - FPS - 4 - Grand Final (€ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 13, 2018 (English).
  11. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event (Event # 68)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 13, 2018.
  12. ↑ Triton Super High Roller Series (HK $ 196,000 + 4,000 No Limit Hold'em Suncity Cup) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 13, 2018.
  13. ↑ Triton Super High Roller Series 2017 (HK $ 970,000 + 30,000 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 13, 2018.
  14. ↑ 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 May 13, 2018.
  15. ↑ Triton Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 250,000 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck Ante Only 250K) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 14, 2018.
  16. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 250,000 Short Deck No Limit Hold'em - Ante Only (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 21, 2019.
  17. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 300,000 No Limit Hold'em / Short Deck Mix (Event # 13)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 21, 2019.
  18. ↑ Berlin Bears on the Global Poker League website, accessed on May 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Cates, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jungleman (nickname); w00ki3z. (Nickname); jungleman12 (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Bowie , Maryland , United States