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Dan Smith (born February 23, 1989, in Manalapan Township, New Jersey) is an American professional poker player. He now resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. Smith has won many titles during his poker career, including a World Poker Tour title, a World Series of Poker bracelet and a championship event at the Aussie Millions. Poker Dan Smith started playing online poker at the age of 16, before actually reaching the legal gambling age in the US. He is a former chess player who got into college on a chess scholarship, but he decided to stop his studies in 2007 (at 18 years old) to pursue a full-time poker career. Smith's first cash and victory was in 2008, when he won the Heartland Poker Tour Main Event at Turning Stone Resort & Casino in New York for $101,960. Smith's biggest tournament cash to date came in June 2014, when he won the Bellagio Super High Roller $100,000 buy-in event with a grand prize of $2,044,766. He has over 74 cashes in live poker tournaments and has won over $36,000,000. The year 2012 was the turning point of Smith's career. He started the year by winning Aussie Millions 100k Challenge event for $1,012,000 AUD. He went on a tear in April at the EPT Monte Carlo Series. In a span of five days, he won three separate €5000 events for a combined €520,980. In August of that year, Smith captured the €962,925 first-place prize of the Season 9 EPT Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller. Smith has had multiple strong showings during the WSOP; in 2015, he finished third in the $10,000 PLO for $369,564 and in 2014, he finished 20th in the $10,000 Main Event for $286,900. In 2012, Smith finished seventh in the Partouche Poker tour for €178,496 All in all, Smith won six tournaments in 2012 and eventually won the 2012 GPI POY and finished runner up in the Card Player POY to Greg Merson as well as runner up in the Bluff Poy to Marvin Rettenmaier In December 2013, Smith took down the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $1,161,135. In July 2016, Smith finished second in WSOP $111,111 No Limit Hold'em High Roller for One Drop for $3,078,974. In September 2014, Smith was ranked first in the world by the Global poker index. In September 2018, he placed third in the WSOP $1 million Big One for One Drop event for $4,000,000. In June, at the 2022 World Series of Poker, Smith captured his first bracelet. He defeated Christoph Vogelsang in the 25k Heads-UP Championship. Smith was considered to be the best player without a bracelet prior to the win. As of August 2022, Smith's live tournament winnings exceed $38,992,280. Charitable Activities Smith has collaborated with The Life You Can Save, a non-profit founded by Peter Singer, to raise millions of dollars for highly effective charities via Smith's organization Double Up Drive. References External links Card Player profile Global Poker Index profile Hendon Mob profile PokerNews profile WPT profile WSOP profile. Discover the O Dan Smith popular books. Find the top 100 most popular O Dan Smith books.
Best Seller O Dan Smith Books of 2024
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The Venetian Game
Philip Gwynne Jones'An unputdownable thriller' Gregory Dowling'It is no surprise to find that Philip Gwynne Jones lives in Venice... art and architecture interweave into a story that builds to an alm...
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The Isis Covenant
James DouglasJamie Saintclair embarks on another actionpacked historical adventure, guaranteed to have you gripped from page one! Perfect for fans of Dan Brown, Chris Kuzneski and Scott Mariani...
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The Excalibur Codex
James DouglasJamie Saintclair embarks on another actionpacked historical adventure, guaranteed to have you gripped from page one! A must read for fans of Dan Brown, Chris Kuzneski and Scott Mar...
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Rendezvous - South Atlantic
Douglas ReemanReaders of Clive Cussler, Bernard Cornwell and Wilbur Smith will love this gripping, spellbinding and unputdownable WW2 historical adventure full of vivid battle scenes and masterf...
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The Football 100
The AthleticA masterful ode to America’s gameand an unforgettable portrait of its greatest legends written by America’s best sportswriters.It is a question that has bedeviled football fans for...
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The Order of Things
Graham HurleyThe fourth novel in the Jimmy Suttle series, from 'one of the UK's finest crime novelists' (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY), author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRAD'There is noone writing bette...
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From Saturday Night to Sunday Night
Dick EbersolA memoir by the legendary television executive detailing his pioneering work on Saturday Night Live, Sunday Night Football, the Olympics, the NBA, music videos, late night, and mor...
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Badge of Glory
Douglas ReemanFans of Clive Cussler, Bernard Cornwell and Wilbur Smith will love this enthralling and colourful saga from multimillion copy bestselling author Douglas Reeman. The first novel in ...
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The Anvil of the World
Kage BakerKage Baker's stories and novels of the mysterious organization that controls time travel, The Company, have made her famous in SF. So has her talent for clever dialogue and pointed...
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Body Surfing
Dale PeckFrom one of America's most acclaimed writers, a startling and visionary novel about a race of demons who inhabit humans and wreak havoc on the lives of two smalltown boys. In a sm...
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The Hollow Crown
Miri RubinThere is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and He...
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Wycliffe and the House of Fear
W.J. BurleyA troubling disappearance. A puzzling mystery. A new investigation for Detective Wycliffe.Detective Superintendent Wycliffe is holidaying in Cornwall when he meets the intriguing K...
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In Re Estate of Dan Smith
Department One Supreme Court of WashingtonThe respondent, surviving spouse of Dan Smith, deceased, petitioned the superior court for clarification
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The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio & G. H. McWilliamIn the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'tenday event', Boccaccio's Decam...
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Down to the Bone
Caitlin RotherIt was as if time had stopped for the Southern California family of four who mysteriously vanished without a trace. On February 15, 2010, Joseph McStay, his wife Summer, and their...
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The Book of Secrets
Tom HarperFrom the pen of prizewinning author Tom Harper, this is a highoctane adventure thriller in the bestselling tradition of The Da Vinci Code. Jampacked with murder, mystery and mindbl...
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The Science of Rick and Morty
Matt BradyExplore the real science behind the Cartoon Network phenomenon Rick and Mortyone of television’s most irreverent, whipsmart, and darkly hilarious showsand discover how close we are...
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Chess
Stefan Zweig'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board,...
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Secrets of the Dead
Tom HarperFans of Dan Brown, Clive Cussler and Scott Mariani will love this highoctane, edgeofyourseat international thriller from the pen of prizewinning author Tom Harper. It has everythin...
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Fire Hawk
Geoffrey ArcherSam Packer of the British Secret Service knows a mission to Iraq is dangerous. But none more dangerous than this one.A whispered secret in a Baghdad hotel lobby leads to his kidnap...
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River of Death
Alistair MacleanThe classic tale of adventure and the dark secrets of a lost city in the Brazilian jungle, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.THE LOST CITYHamilton knows the way to t...
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The Size of the Truth
Andrew SmithA boy who spent three days trapped in a well tries to overcome his PTSD and claustrophobia so he can fulfill his dream of becoming a famous chef in Andrew Smith’s first middle grad...
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Find Fix Finish
Ben McKelveyThe new book from the bestselling author of The Commando and Mosul.It was Australia's longest war, and also our most secretive.In the craggy mountains, green belts and digital batt...
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Western Approaches
Graham HurleyA body. A policeman. Over the edge...The launch of a stunning crime series from the author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRADNo one liked Jake Kinsey. A rich man, he turned up out of now...
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Where the Dead Wait
Ally WilkesAn eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate and his own redemptionfrom the author of the “vivid, immersive” (The Guardian) horr...
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The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix
Paul SussmanThis pageturner with a difference by multimillion copy bestselling author Paul Sussman is a mustread for anyone looking for something original.'More than lives up to its promise......
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Wycliffe And The Guild Of Nine
W.J. BurleyA murder at an artists' colony but not everyone wants Chief Superintendent Wycliffe to investigate . . .The artists' colony is at the site of a disused mine working on the moor we...
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Island Reich
Jack GrimwoodAN UNLIKELY SPY. A FORMER KING. THE FATE OF A NATION IN THEIR HANDS.The gripping WWII thriller from the awardwinning author of Nightfall Berlin, perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow'I...
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Sins of the Father
Graham HurleyDS Jimmy Suttle investigates a murder in a house haunted by the past in the latest from 'one of the UK's finest crime novelists' (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY), author of LAST FLIGHT TO S...
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Executive Action
Richard DoyleJack Meade wakes in a hospital bed. The doctors tell him he has been in the sea for two days that he is lucky to be alive. His face is so salt ravaged he barely recognises himself...
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The Hunt
Andy McNabFrom master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventurefilled and actionpacked new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces ...
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Swagger
Jimmy Johnson & Dave HydeFOX NFL Sunday analyst and legendary Hall of Fame head football coach Jimmy Johnsonthe first to win both a college football championship and a Super Bowlshares his longawaited, int...
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Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death
W.J. BurleyA respectable bookseller is found bludgeoned and strangled and it's up to Chief Superintendent Wycliffe to find out why . . .When Matthew Glynn is murdered, Wycliffe is mystified. ...
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The Price of Darkness
Graham HurleyGraham Hurley's acclaimed crime series takes a step into the dark side as DC Winter wonders whether crime might pay...From the author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRAD.DC Winter, sacked...
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To Risks Unknown
Douglas ReemanMultimillion copy bestselling author Douglas Reeman is the master of naval fiction and this actionpacked, highoctane WW2 historical adventure is no exception. Jampacked with tensio...
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Bye-bye, Blue Creek
Andrew SmithSam Abernathy prepares to leave home for the first time in this charming followup to awardwinning author Andrew Smith’s The Size of Truth.Vampires have just moved into the haunted ...
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The Greatest Enemy
Douglas ReemanThis compelling nautical adventure from multimillion copy bestselling author Douglas Reeman will have readers of Clive Cussler, Bernard Cornwell and Wilbur Smith gripped with its e...
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In Plain Sight
Dan DaviesA major source for the BBC drama The ReckoningWinner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA NonFiction DaggerShortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black Prize...
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The Glory Boys
Douglas ReemanAs we've come to expect from multimillion copy bestselling author Douglas Reeman, The Glory Boys expertly weaves close and detailed knowledge of the actual events of WWII into a si...