Dan Zack was probably the youngest player to get bitten by a poker mistake when Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 award World Series of Poker The main event. The Princeton, NJ native was only 10 years old at the time, but he was so hooked that he kept reading Harrington on Hold’em Strategies series by age 13. The outstanding gamer had the skills to build large online balances, but lacked the discipline to hold them.
After having to rebuild a few times, Zack plugged his leaks and it wasn’t long before he established himself as a threat in whatever game he entered. He won his first win WSOP . World Series of Poker Bracelet in 2019, to end the $2,500 Triple Mixed Draw event. The following year, he popped a bubble on the final table for the $10,000 online main event.
This summer, the 29-year-old was the runaway winner of WSOP . World Series of Poker The race for Player of the Year, collecting 16 chests, four final tables and just over $1.45 million in earnings. He also pulled off the second and third bracelets of his career, winning the $8,000 or better Omaha Championship and the $10,000 or better Stud Championship.
Highlights of this interview include winning a potion of pennies at a family reunion game, reading poker books at age 13, losing $20,000 in a church retreat, why kids shouldn’t learn poker, quitting poker and finding it again in Germany, and transferring $1,000 To $100,000 in one summer, is crucial Palestine’s libiration organisation Bet in the Bahamas, eight 62-hour poker sessions, set his sights on the series, fight bark, bet on a high reel by a stranger, live stakes, lose a $200,000 bet to Garrett Adelstein and take ownership for 2k $ – $ 4 thousand by Ray D, he bets too much on the election, Dustin Diamond, and he never got a real job.
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