Multi-millionaire professional player adds another $473,000 to his bank balance following Manila victory
The young US professional player Dan Colman, who already has over $27 million dollars in major live poker tournament earnings to his credit, added another $423,000 over the weekend in taking down the $30,000 buy-in 2017 Triton Super High Roller Series Manila 6-Max Event at the Solaire casino in the Philippines.
The 43-player stellar field was liberally populated by respected names like Bryn Kenney, Timofey "Trueteller" Kuznetsov, Mustapha Kanit, Mikita Badziakouski, Rainer Kempe, John Juanda, Dan Cates, Jack Salter, Dario Sammartino, David Peters, Pratyush Buddiga and Paul Phua.
Dusk Til Dawn entrepreneur Richard Yong was the last to be eliminated before the cashes started, busted out by Sergio Aido.
Colman, who will be remembered amongst other achievements for winning the 2014 Big One for One Drop, started final table action as the low chip man but fought his way back into the game to face Erik Seidel in the heads up with a 2 to 1 advantage after 12 hours of play.
It was a brief but highly charged half-hour confrontation between two excellent players from which Colman emerged the victor, sending the massively experienced and respected Seidel to the cashier for a HK$2,326,000 runner up pay-out.
This was Colman's second really big pay day this year – he took home $1.1 million after cashing deep in the inaugural PokerStars Championship Bahamas Main Event earlier.
Other final table earnings included:
Rainer Kempe — HK$1,466,000
Sergio Aido — HK$1,011,000
Timofey Kuznetsov — HK$708,000
Mustapha Kanit — HK$556,000
Mikita Badziakouski — HK$405,000
Online Casino News Courtesy of Infopowa
