Paul Phua Poker School: Player Profile - Dan Colman HD

01.06.2017
The latest video interview for the Paul Phua Poker School is with Daniel Colman, who has one of the most extraordinary rise-to-riches stories in all of poker. He was talent-spotted as a teenager by poker pro Olivier Busquet, after Colman kept calling out his hands while watching him play online. In 2013, Dan Colman became the first online hyper-turbo player to win more than $1 million in a year – what’s more, he managed it in just nine months. The very next year, Dan Colman won the $1m-entry Big One for One Drop tournament, besting Daniel Negreanu heads-up at the end, to win $15.3 million and his first WSOP bracelet. He was just 22 years old. Dan Colman doesn’t give many interviews, so make the most of this one! Full transcript below: When did you first start playing poker? Dan Colman: I got into poker through just always gambling with my friends when I was younger, just gambling for baseball cards, playing Tape Ball, Home Run Derby, basketball, shooting games around the world, Pig, and then that just transitioned into… I think I was seeing the World Series of Poker on ESPN, Chris Moneymaker winning, then me and my friends all started having a weekly home game. What first attracted you to poker? Dan Colman: To be honest, the initial intrigue of poker was the gambling aspect, but then as I played more and more I really began to love the game. It is a beautiful game when you think about it. Just everything matches up perfectly where there are straights, flushes, what beats what. Everything makes for a really nice game, especially when you play it heads up, which I transitioned into playing. How did you get to turn professional? Dan Colman: So, I started playing a lot when I was 16 to 17, and I was mainly playing heads up sit-and-gos online. It was on a sports betting website where when I didn’t have bets that night and I had money in the account, I’d go over to the poker site and I’d play heads up sit-and-gos. And then from there I joined Full Tilt Poker and I met Olivier Busquet, ‘livb112’, and he was one of the best heads up sit-and-go players on the site, and we got to talking. Then next thing you know, he offers to stake me; and as soon as he offered to stake me I went into work the next day, quit, took a stake, and he helped me along the way. What sort of a player are you? Dan Colman: For me, I’m definitely a field player. I don’t use much math, game theory. I’m very intuitive but, that being said, the guys that are very math based, game theory orientated, I always want to pay attention to what they are doing and try and understand the reasoning behind it. I admit I think what they are doing is more correct, and when I can take it in and try and make sense of some it I try to incorporate it into my game as best I can.. I have a really good memory with hands. There is this huge database in my head of past hands. Just playing so much against good people. You might not be dealing with math per se on a stat sheet or looking at a paper,

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