Dan Harrington: A Jack-of-All-Trade World Poker Tour Made Millionaire

Aside from playing outstanding poker, World Poker Tour made millionaire Dan Harrington is also known for his incredible accomplishments outside casinos and poker rooms, which include becoming a backgammon champion, a chess champion, and a best-selling poker author. Furthermore, his other interests include being a profitable real estate investor and a highly respectable bankruptcy attorney. Beyond all these astonishing feats, people would always remember him for his highly impressive skills and dedication to the game of poker.

Looking back at the long and illustrious poker career of Harrington, he has clearly dominated the different tournaments and games featured by major events like the World Poker Tour. According to his contemporaries, peers, and associates in the poker industry, they always remember Harrington for his conservativeness in playing hands. To mislead his opponents, he acquired the nickname 'Action Dan,' which is clearly opposite what he really does when in action on top of the poker table.

Harrington is a highly respected individual on the poker table, showing extreme carefulness with every hand that he plays. Before there was ever a World Poker Tour, he first got a lot of involvement in the World Series of Poker. Since then, he has always been an amazing player for the series, impressing his opponents and the entire poker world by dominating his very first WSOP participation, reaching the final table and finishing a very respectable sixth place finish against the very best players that the game of poker has to offer.

His biggest year as an international poker player came in 1995, when Harrington finally won his very first World Series of Poker championship bracelet. After years of strong performances and impressive victories at the series, he also started to take an active part in the various events and tournaments of the World Poker Tour. Overall, he has already played in 42 WPT poker tournaments, piling up an impressive winning average of 2.38 percent.

To be considered one of the top World Poker Tour millionaires, Harrington has gathered one impressive victory after another to build career earnings that are valued at $2,444,081, which is good for 16th best overall among active poker players. At the World Poker Tour Season 2, he played at the WPT World Championship and took home $49,899 for finishing a decent 21st overall. In Season 3, he has a total earnings of $46,517.

Season 4 was even more successful for Harrington, who won a season total of $670,730, thanks to a second place finish at the prestigious Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship that was held at the Bellagio. In Season 5, his total earnings received an additional $42,070. However, his greatest performance so far came in Season 6, where he won the Legends of Poker tournament that was held at the Bicycle Casino, taking home a grand total of $1,634,865.