Daniel Weinman topped the largest World Series of Poker important occasion subject in historical past, outlasting greater than 10,000 entrants. Incredibly, he nearly didn’t play within the occasion and needed to be satisfied by mates, together with six-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb, to fly again from his native Atlanta, Georgia for the event.
It was Weinman’s second profession bracelet, having received his first in 2022 on the best way to ending second within the WSOP Player of the Year race. And regardless of profitable a first-place prize of $12.1 million, Weinman was again at his day job the following week, working as a software program engineer for RF Poker, an organization that facilitates the operation and safety of poker livestreams.
Although he targeted on money video games for a lot of his profession, Weinman additionally has a WSOP Circuit ring, and two World Poker Tour titles. In 2017 he received the Borgata Winter Open and adopted that up just a few months later with a season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions victory.
Highlights from this interview embrace sweating the Wall Street dealer recreation as a child, taking part in 24 tables without delay, getting robbed at a house recreation, an excessive amount of Chinese poker, profitable a WPT together with his again in opposition to the wall, taking a 9-to-5 ‘poker’ job after profitable his first bracelet, livestream integrity, how he bought talked into the primary occasion, how a two-outer saved extra than simply his event, the reluctant acceptance of added consideration, getting his face on a buying and selling card, plans for the bracelet, damaged putters, getting fired from the movie show for beating his supervisor, {golfing} with skilled athletes and Trump, and the way he began his bankroll by being the most effective guitar hero gamers on the planet.
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