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Dan Colman
American poker player (born 1990) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Daniel Alan Colman[1] (born July 11, 1990) is an American high-stakes professional poker player, originally from Holden, Massachusetts. He is best known for winning the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop at the 2014 World Series of Poker. He beat Daniel Negreanu heads-up for a first place prize of $15,306,668, the fourth largest single payout in poker tournament history.
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Poker career
Colman is primarily an online player under the names "mrGR33N13" and "riyyc225". In 2013 he became the first player in history to win $1,000,000 in hyper-turbo tournaments in a calendar year, accomplishing the feat in only nine months.[2] In April 2014 he won the €100,000 Super High Roller at the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo, earning €1,539,300.
At the 2014 WSOP, Colman finished in third place in the $10,000 Heads-Up event, before winning The Big One for One Drop for $15,306,668.[3]
Colman added two more seven-figure cashes that summer. First, he finished second in the €50,000 Super High Roller at EPT 2014 for €843,066 ($1,120,186), then in September he won the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, prevailing over a field of 1,499 and winning $1,446,710.[4] In October 2014 he won the WPT Alpha 8 super high roller for $990,000, bringing his live tournament cashes to 21 million in 2014.
In 2014, he won the BLUFF Player of the year award.[5]
As of May 2021, his total live winnings exceeded $28,900,000.[6]
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