Senior Daniel Weinman topped World Series of Poker The main event field in history, which exceeded more than 10,000 participants. Incredibly, he almost didn’t play in the event and had to be persuaded by friends, including six-time bracelet winner Sean Dibb, to return from his native Atlanta, Georgia to take part in the tournament.
It was Weinman’s second career bracelet, having won his first title in 2022 en route to a second-place finish in the championship. WSOP Player of the Year race. Despite winning the $12.1 million first-place prize, Weinman returned to his day job the following week, working as a software engineer at RF Poker, a company that facilitates the operation and security of live poker.
Although he has focused on cash games for most of his career, Weinman also has WSOP Circuit Ring, two World Poker Tour Titles. In 2017 he won an award Borgata winter open He followed that up a few months later at the end of the season WPT Tournament of Champions victory.
Highlights from this interview include sweating it out on Wall Street as a kid, playing 24 tables at once, getting robbed at a house game, lots of Chinese poker, and winning a prize. WPT With his back against the wall, landing a 9-to-5 “Booker” job after winning his first bracelet, the integrity of the live broadcast, how he was talked down to in the main event, and how two outside players saved more than just his championship, he’s reluctant to accept the extra attention, and puts on his face. On the trading card, bracelet plans, broken rackets, getting kicked out of the movies for hitting his manager, playing golf with pro athletes and Trump, and how he started his finances by being one of the best champion guitarists in the world.
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