Where is Daniel Colman? A question that some poker fans are certainly asking themselves. The 24-year-old Massachusetts native became popular about this time last year, as he won the The BIG ONE for ONE DROP topping a field of 54 of the world’s best and most profitable poker pros and facing no other but Daniel Negreanu in a heads-up play to capture the amount of $15,306,668, the second biggest live cash ever awarded to a player.
Only within the course of eight months, Colman managed to accumulate more than $20 million from various live tournaments. He scored his first major title only two months before the The BIG ONE for ONE DROP. In April 2014, the player won the EPT Season 10 Grand Final €100,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller for €1,539,300 ($2,127,398).
In August, the player finished 2nd in the EPT Season 11 Barcelona €50,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller for €843,066 ($1,118,479). Next in his list of achievements come his 1st places in the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event for $1,446,710 and the WPT Alpha8 London £60,000 No-Limit Texas Hold’em Main Event for £600,000 ($957,396).
Colman concluded his lucky streak of large tournament winnings in November 2014, when he finished 7th in the APPT Asia Championship of Poker Macau HK$500,000 Super High Roller for HK$2,900,000 ($373,932). Since then, he has scored no cashes at live events, although he could be spotted at several EPT Season 11 Grand Final ones as well as other major tournaments.
Quite expectedly, Colman became the 2014 GPI Player of the Year, collecting more than 4,000 points in the world’s most prestigious ranking.
So far, he has a total of $22,894,180 in live tournament earnings and is 5th in the all time money list, with poker veterans Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Antonio Esfandiari, and Daniel Negreanu being the only to rank higher than him.
Apart from live tournaments, Colman could also be spotted at online poker rooms under the screen name mrGR33N13. In 2012, he became the first ever hyper-turbo player in the history of online poker to win more than $1 million in a calendar year.
Colman is known to be one of that breed of people who do not enjoy being paid special attention by the media. This is why he could rarely be seen speaking before cameras. Last year, he even refused to talk to media after he won The BIG ONE for ONE DROP. He later explained that he believed gambling was something that should not be promoted, as he had had the chance to see its ugly side. Yet, Colman stated that he considered himself a lucky person, due to the fact that he was among those who had benefited financially from poker.
Answering the question where Daniel Coleman is – apparently, he still could be spotted on the felt and given his previous achievements and the fact that he has all the skills needed, his name will most certainly be heard of in future.
