Daniel Colman Claims Another Trophy at WPT Alpha8 London Super High Roller, Crosses $22 Million in Tournament Cashes This Year

2014 WSOP Big One for One Drop winner Daniel Colman (cover image) may have rubbed many the wrong way with his rude refusal to talk to the press, but the pro sure knows how to get his wins right!

Colman has just taken another championship, by winning the maiden £60,000 WPT Alpha8 London super high roller event for £600,000 ($961,723), making it his third high roller win this year. This win totals Colman’s cashes to more than $22 million in 2014 alone, with two more months to go.

Colman managed the feat on the second of the two buy-in`s that he obtained for the event. 23 hopefuls had dug deep to participate in the tournament, with 17 unique entries and 6 re-buys, flooding the prize pool up to $2,143,571.

The 6 re-entries were Daniel Cates, Max Altergott, Jean-Noel Thorel, Dan Colman, Fabian Quoss and Philipp Gruissem. Of these, Altergott and Colman used their second buy-in`s to full advantage, with Altergott taking the runner up place with $561,005.

Day 2 of the play began with 14 players remaining, with British hedge fund manager Talal Shakerchi leading in chip counts.

Sam Trickett, Christoph Vogelsang, and Vladimir Troyanovskiy missed making the money and Sorrel Mizzi had the unfortunate distinction of being bubble boy. Mizzi’s luck ran out, when his ran against Colman’s . The board resulted in and Colman with Kings sent Mizzi to the rails.

A final table consisting of Haxton, Shakerchi, Altergott and Colman remained to battle it out for the title. Haxton was the first to go and then it took another three hours before Shakerchi was eliminated at 3^rd place.

Colman had 1.6 million against Altergott 687,000 at the start of the heads up play. Altergott doubled up twice and even managed to get a chip lead, but Colman overcame the moment.

Three hands later, Altergott made the mistake of moving all in on the strength of his . Colman called and the board gave out to support his and Colman took another historic win.

WPT Alpha8 London Super High Roller Results

1. Daniel Colman – £600,000 ($959,622)

2. Max Altergott – £350,000 ($559,780)

3. Talal Shakerchi – £224,000 ($358,259)

4. Isaac Haxton – £160,000 ($255,899