David Peters (poker player)

David Peters
David Peters (2018)
Personal information
Date of birth	April 16, 1987
place of birth	Toledo
Nicknames 0 0	dpeters17PokerStars David PetersGGPoker Davidp18Full Tilt Poker
place of residence	Las Vegas
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0$ 2,699,752
Total prize money	$ 33,737,539
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	2
Cashes	54
Best main event	136th ( 2010 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	14th
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	6th
Main Event of the PokerStars Championship
title	no
Cashes	1
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	2
Last updated: August 16, 2020

David Patrick Peters (born April 16, 1987 in Toledo , Ohio ) is a professional American poker player .

Peters is considered to be one of the best tournament players in the world. He has earned more than $ 33.5 million in live poker tournaments , making him the seventh most successful poker player by tournament prize money . The American won the high roller of the European Poker Tour in 2015 , is a two-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker and has achieved numerous other high-value tournament results. He secured 10 wins in tournaments at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas , where he won the US Poker Open Championship in 2019 . In 2016 he was named Player of the Year by the Global Poker Index and Card Player Magazine . From January 11th to 17th, 2017, he was at the top of the poker world rankings for a week for the first time . After being briefly ousted by Nick Petrangelo , Peters was again at the top for 6 weeks from February 22 to April 4, 2017 .

Personal

Peters is from Toledo , Ohio, USA . He attended the local high school and then went on to study economics at Bowling Green State University , but did not graduate from the stage. Peters lives in Las Vegas .

Poker career

Career

2004–2009: beginnings and first tournament victories

Peters taught himself to play poker in 2004 and started playing online poker when he was 18 . He built his first bankroll of $ 600 through freerolls , with which he initially played sit and gos and later switched to tournament poker . He uses the nickname dpeters17 on the PokerStars platform and played as Davidp18 on Full Tilt Poker . In addition, Peters uses his real name at GGPoker . Since 2006, the American has also been taking part in renowned live tournaments.

Peters achieved his first live cash placement in Barcelona in early December 2006 , when he finished seventh in an Ongame Network Poker Classic tournament, worth over $ 55,000. In January 2007, he finished 31st at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures (PCA) main event in the Bahamas and received almost $ 20,000 in prize money. At the end of March 2007 he reached the paid places at the main event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Monte-Carlo and finished the tournament in twelfth place, which brought him more than 65,000 euros . In June 2008 he was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and made a total of four money ranks. The American won the Heartland Poker Tour Main Event in Mount Pleasant at the end of August 2008 and secured a prize of around 130,000 US dollars. He won another title in mid-October 2009 at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, where he won a Festa al Lago event with a grand prize of over 100,000 US dollars.

Overall, Peter's tournament winnings by the end of 2009 were around $ 820,000.

2010–2014: Final tables at the WSOP and WPT

At the EPT in Monte-Carlo, Peters finished second in a side event at the end of April 2010 and also made it into the money at the main event, which brought him prize money of 123,000 euros. Early July 2010, sat Peters in a tournament variant No Limit Hold'em on his first WSOP -Finaltisch and finished second, for which he received $ US 350,000. Then he finished in the main event of the tournament series in 136th place, which was paid for just under 40,000 US dollars. Even when in October 2010 in London played out World Series of Poker Europe he reached a final table, also came when the main event in the money, giving him prize money of more than 100,000 British pounds earned. In November 2010, he won a heads-up event on the North American Poker Tour in Los Angeles for a prize of more than $ 110,000. At the main event of the World Poker Tour (WPT), the American first came to the final table in May 2011 at the Bellagio, which he finished in seventh place, worth over 170,000 US dollars. He had five cash placements at the 2012 WSOP . At the beginning of March 2013 Peters finished second at the main event of the Italian Poker Tour in Sanremo and received prize money of 155,000 euros due to a deal with Nicola Sasso . At the Hotel Bellagio, he finished sixth in the WPT Main Event in May 2013 and received just under 175,000 US dollars. In the same place, he secured the title in the ninth play of the Bellagio Cup in mid-July 2013 , for which he received more than 355,000 US dollars due to a deal with Jason Koon . At the end of October 2013, Peters sat at the final table of the High Roller of the World Series of Poker Europe in Enghien-les-Bains and took fourth place, worth over 150,000 euros. In mid-December 2013 he prevailed at the Eureka High Roller in Prague and secured 131,000 euros because he had previously agreed to a deal with Ján Bendík . At the end of 2013, Peters finished fifth in the Global Poker Index Player of the Year ranking. At the 2014 WSOP , he got eight paid places.

At the end of 2014, the sum of the tournament prize money he won was just under 4.5 million US dollars.

2015–2016: EPT High Roller win, first bracelet and Player of the Year awards

Peters at an Alpha8 event in Las Vegas (2015)

At the end of March 2015, Peters won the EPT high roller event in Portomaso , Malta . For this he prevailed against 303 other players and received a prize money of almost 600,000 euros, which was his highest prize money to date. In early July 2015, the American made it to the final table of the $ 500,000 Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and finished the tournament in fifth place, which was paid for around $ 1.5 million. He secured his first tournament victory at this casino on December 20, 2015 at the Aria High Roller , for which he accepted prize money of more than 425,000 US dollars. In addition, Peters was temporarily in eighth place in 2015 in the PocketFives ranking, which lists the most successful online poker tournament players.

At the beginning of January 2016, he took second place behind Fedor Holz in the Triton Super High Roller Series in the Philippines and received his highest prize money to date of around 2.7 million US dollars due to a deal. He also finished second in the A $ 250,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne in early February 2016 and received prize money of almost 900,000 Australian dollars because of a previously negotiated deal with Fabian Quoss , Connor Drinan and Steve O'Dwyer . In July 2016, Peters won a high roller tournament at the Bellagio with a prize of just under 400,000 US dollars. A few days later, he secured his first bracelet and a prize of over 400,000 US dollars at an event in No Limit Hold'em at the 2016 WSOP . In November 2016, the American finished eighth at the Triton Series Main Event in the Philippines and received the equivalent of more than 210,000 US dollars. A week later he won the high roller of the Asia Championship of Poker in Macau with a grand prize of around $ 630,000. Again just a few days later, he prevailed in the Aria Super High Roller and secured more than $ 510,000 after a deal with Erik Seidel . At the EPT main event in Prague , Peters reached the final table in mid-December 2016 and finished the tournament in third place, for which he received almost 400,000 euros. With the victory of the Aria High Roller on December 28, 2016, which was awarded almost 300,000 US dollars, he overtook the long-leading Fedor Holz in the ranking of the Global Poker Index Player of the Year . Thus, the American secured this award at the end of the year and was honored with an American Poker Award in February 2017 . Also the Card Player Magazine awarded at the end of 2016 its Player of the Year Award to Peters.

At the end of 2016, the prize money he won at live tournaments was just under $ 15 million.

2017–2018: world number one and highly rewarded tournament victories

In January 2017, Peters took the lead in the poker world rankings for the first time , which he held for a total of 7 weeks until the beginning of April . At the end of April 2017, he finished fourth in the Super High Roller of the PokerStars Championship in Monte-Carlo and received prize money of around 630,000 euros. From May to July 2017 he achieved six cash placements in tournaments at the Aria Resort & Casino and collected prize money of almost 1.3 million US dollars. At the Poker Masters , which were also played there for the first time , the American finished third in the fourth event of the tournament series in September 2017, which was endowed with USD 273,000.

Peters at the WPT in Montreal (2018)

In February 2018, Peters won the seventh tournament of the US Poker Open with a prize of $ 400,000. In March 2018, he finished seventh at the Super High Roller Bowl China in Macau, which was paid for the equivalent of more than one million US dollars. At the beginning of May 2018, Peters finished fourth at the EPT Main Event in Monte-Carlo and received 232,000 euros. At the end of July 2018, he won the Six Max of the Triton Series in Jeju-do, South Korea, with a prize money equivalent to more than 1.1 million US dollars. At the Poker Masters at Aria Resort & Casino, Peters won the first and last tournament in mid-September 2018 and secured the majority of all players with prize money of more than 1.3 million US dollars. Due to a newly introduced points system, he finished second behind Almedin Imširović in the race for the Poker Masters Purple Jacket ™ . The same month, Peters was the High Roller of on PokerStars been playing World Championship of Online Poker Second and received a prize of more than 560,000 US dollars. At the end of October 2018, he reached the final table at the Super High Roller of the World Series of Poker Europe at King's Resort in Rozvadov and, after losing heads-up to the Czech Martin Kabrhel, finished second, which was paid for with more than 1.6 million euros. About a week later, Peters won a $ 100,000 tournament at the Aria Resort & Casino with a prize money of more than $ 1.1 million. In mid-November 2018, he finished third in the Super High Roller Championship of the partypoker Caribbean Poker Party in Nassau , Bahamas, and received prize money of more than 1.4 million US dollars. Overall, the American earned more than 10 million US dollars in calendar year 2018, with Jason Koon , Mikita Badsjakouski and Justin Bonomo only three players had even higher prize money to show. In the ranking of the Global Poker Index Player of the Year , Peters finished third behind Alex Foxen and Stephen Chidwick at the end of 2018 .

At the end of 2018, Peters had won over US $ 29 million in live tournament prize money.

Since 2019: Won the US Poker Open Championship and second bracelet

With three cash placements at the PCA, Peters broke through the $ 30 million mark in live tournament prize money as the fifth player in mid-January 2019. About a month later, he won the main event of the US Poker Open at the Aria Resort & Casino and received more than $ 1.2 million from a deal with Chris Hunichen . Due to two further cash placements, Peters collected the most points of all players during the tournament series and therefore secured an additional bonus of 100,000 US dollars as the winner of the US Poker Open Championship . At the beginning of March 2019, he finished fifth at the Triton Series Main Event in Jeju-do and secured the equivalent of more than one million US dollars.

In June 2020, the American played the Super High Roller Bowl Online on the partypoker online platform , which has so far been played with a buy-in of 102,000 US dollars - together with the Super High Roller of the World Championship of Online Poker in September 2016 on PokerStars most expensive online poker tournament. Peters reached the final table, finishing in third place, worth $ 762,500. In August 2020, he won the Heads-Up Championship of the World Series of Poker Online, which was played out on GGPoker due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and received around USD 360,000 and his second bracelet .

To date, Peters has earned more than $ 33.5 million in live prize money. His online tournament winnings are over $ 4.5 million on PokerStars and around $ 1.5 million on Full Tilt Poker .

Bracelet overview

Peters cashed 54 times at the WSOP and won two bracelets :

year	Buy-in (in $ )	competition	Attendees	Prize money (in $)
2016 O	0.1500	No-Limit Hold'em	1860	412,557
2020 O	10,000	GGPoker.com - Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Championship	0128	360.480

Prize money overview

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2006	00.056,549	-
2007	00.185.144	-
2008	00.378.836	3
2009	00.201.352	1
2010	01,079,739	1
2011	00.385.003	-
2012	00.331.725	-
2013	01,386,035	2
2014	00.343.712	-
2015	02,935,899	2
2016	07,564,647	5
2017	03,541,519	3
2018	10,785,013	7th
2019	04,152,793	1
2020	00.018,825	-
total	33,737,539	25th

Web links

Commons : David Peters  - Collection of Images

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

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} David Peters in the World Series of Poker database, accessed on May 19, 2016 (English).
3. ↑ ^{a b} A Poker Life - David Peters on cardplayer.com from November 20, 2010, accessed on December 27, 2017 (English).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} David Peters in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020 (English).
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Davidp18 in the PocketFives database, accessed on May 19, 2016 (English).
6. ↑ Ongame Network Poker Classic ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020.
7. ↑ PCA - 2007 ($ 7,800 + 200 WPT Championship Event - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 19, 2016.
8. ↑ EPT - 3 - Grand Final (€ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Grand Final) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 19, 2016 (English).
9. ↑ Heartland Poker Tour - HPT Mount Pleasant (No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020.
10. ↑ Festa al Lago ($ 5,000 + 180 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020.
11. ↑ European Poker Tour - EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final (€ 5,000 + 250 No Limit Hold'em - Six Max) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020 (English).
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14. ↑ 41st World Series of Poker - WSOP 2010 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020.
15. ↑ World Series Of Poker Europe - WSOPE 2010 (£ 2,500 + 150 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020.
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17. ↑ North American Poker Tour - NAPT Los Angeles ($ 4,750 + 250 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020.
18. ↑ Ninth Annual Five Star World Poker Classic ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020.
19. ↑ Italian Poker Tour - IPT Sanremo (€ 2,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020 (English).
20. ↑ World Poker Tour - WPT World Championship ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - WPT World Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020.
21. ↑ Bellagio Cup IX ($ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Bellagio Cup) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020.
22. ↑ World Series of Poker Europe - WSOPE 2013 (€ 25,000 + 600 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 7)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020 (English).
23. ↑ European Poker Tour - EPT Prague (€ 2,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Eureka High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020 (English).
24. ↑ Global Poker Index: 2013 Player of the Year Ole Schemion leads the GPI 300 on pokernews.com on January 10, 2014, accessed on August 16, 2020.
25. ↑ EPT - 11 - IPT - 7 - Malta (€ 10,000 + 300 # 53 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 19, 2016 (English).
26. ↑ Super High Roller Bowl 2015 ($ 500,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Bowl) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 19, 2016 (English).
27. ↑ Aria High Roller 21 ($ 24,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 16, 2020.
28. ↑ 2016 World Poker Tour National (WPTN) - Philippines ($ 196,000 + 4,000 No Limit Hold'em Triton Super High Roller Series (Event # 3)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 19, 2016 (English).
29. ↑ 2016 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 245,000 + 5,000 No Limit Hold'em $ 250,000 Challenge - Day 1 (Event # 22)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 16, 2020.
30. ↑ Bellagio High Roller VII ($ 24,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller 8) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020.
31. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 56)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 6, 2016.
32. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Philippines (HK $ 490,000 + 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020.
33. ↑ 2016 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) (HK $ 240,000 + 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 14)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020.
34. ↑ Aria Super High Roller 13 ($ 48,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 16, 2020.
35. ↑ EPT - 13 - EUREKA - 6 - Prague (€ 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 19, 2016 (English).
36. ↑ Aria High Roller 48 ($ 24,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 1, 2017.
37. ↑ PoY 2016 in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on January 1, 2017 (English).
38. ↑ American Poker Awards - Lifetime Award for Mori Eskandani on pokerfirma.com on February 24, 2017, accessed on August 16, 2020.
39. ↑ David Peters Wins 2016 Card Player Player of the Year Award on cardplayer.com from January 2, 2017, accessed on January 8, 2017 (English).
40. ↑ David Peters in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on August 16, 2020 (English).
41. ↑ PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino (€ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Eight Max (Event 15)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 30, 2017 (English).
42. ↑ 2017 Poker Masters ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - Event # 4) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 16, 2020.
43. ↑ US Poker Open ($ 25,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - (Event # 7)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 10, 2018 (English).
44. ↑ 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 22, 2018 (English).
45. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo (€ 5,300 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event # 12) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 4, 2018 (English).
46. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Jeju (HK $ 500,000 No Limit Hold'em - 6-Max) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 29, 2018.
47. ↑ 2018 Poker Masters ($ 10,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 1)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed September 17, 2018 (English).
48. ↑ 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).
49. ↑ Ali Imsirovic Wins 2018 Poker Masters Purple Jacket on pokernews.com from September 16, 2018, accessed on September 17, 2018 (English).
50. ↑ WCOOP-62-H: $ 25,000 NLHE [8-Max, High Roller], $ 1.5M Gtd in the PocketFives database, accessed November 17, 2018.
51. ↑ 2018 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) (€ 95,000 + 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller (Event # 9)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on October 29, 2018 (English).
52. ↑ Fall Madness ($ 100,000 + 3,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 9, 2018.
53. ↑ partypoker Caribbean Poker Party ($ 250,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Championships) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 16, 2018.
54. ↑ 2018 Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2020.
55. ↑ GPI Player of the Year 2018 on the Global Poker Index website, accessed January 9, 2019.
56. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2019 ($ 5,300 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 15, 2019.
57. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2019 ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 10)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 15, 2019.
58. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2019 ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 30)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 15, 2019.
59. ↑ 2019 US Poker Open ($ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - USPO # 10 100K NLH Main Event (Event # 10)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 24, 2019.
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61. ↑ 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.
62. ↑ partypoker: Justin Bonomo wins the Super High Roller Bowl Online at pokerfirma.com on June 3, 2020, accessed on June 3, 2020.
63. ↑ David Peters Wins Second Bracelet in Event # 54: $ 10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Championship ($ 360,480) on pokernews.com on August 16, 2020, accessed on August 16, 2020.