Dan Colman
American poker player (born 1990)
April 6, 2017.
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.
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 $28,900,000.[6]
World Series of Poker Bracelets
| Year | Tournament | Prize (US$) |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Big One for One Drop | $15,306,668 |
Awards
- ALL IN Magazine 2014 Poker Player of the Year[7]
- Card Player Magazine 2014 Player of the Year Award[8]
- Bluff Magazine 2014 Player of the Year Award[5]
References
- ^ "Radaris - Public Records Deep Search". Radaris.
- ^ Hawk, Charles (August 29, 2013). "Interview with Daniel "mrgr33n13" Colman about reaching $1Million in Pokerstars!". husng.com. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
- ^ Tuley, Dave (July 2, 2014). "Colman wins One Drop for $15 million". ESPN. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
- ^ Fast, Erik (September 3, 2014). "Dan Colman Wins 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10 Million Guaranteed Main Event". CardPlayer.com. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
- ^ a b "Dan Colman Wins 2014 BLUFF Player of the Year Award". BLUFF.com. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
- ^ "Daniel Colman's profile on The Hendon Mob". The Hendon Mob Poker Database. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
- ^ "Poker Player Of The Year". AllInMag.com. January 27, 2015. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
- ^ Fast, Erik (January 1, 2015). "Daniel Colman Wins 2014 Card Player Player of the Year Award - Poker News". CardPlayer.com. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
External links
- Card Player profile
- Hendon Mob profile
- PokerNews profile
- WPT profile
- WSOP profile
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Winners of the Card Player Player of the Year Award
- Men Nguyen (1997)
- T. J. Cloutier (1998)
- Tony Ma (1999)
- David Pham (2000)
- Men Nguyen (2001)
- T. J. Cloutier (2002)
- Men Nguyen (2003)
- Daniel Negreanu (2004)
- Men Nguyen (2005)
- Michael Mizrachi (2006)
- David Pham (2007)
- John Phan (2008)
- Eric Baldwin (2009)
- Tom Marchese (2010)
- Ben Lamb (2011)
- Greg Merson (2012)
- Daniel Negreanu (2013)
- Daniel Colman (2014)
- Anthony Zinno (2015)
- David Peters (2016)
- Adrián Mateos (2017)
- Jake Schindler (2018)
- Stephen Chidwick (2019)
- Ali Imsirovic (2021)
