Dan Harrington
Dan " Action Dan " Harrington ( born December 6, 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American professional poker player.
Harrington studied at Suffolk University and MIT. The backgammon champion and U.S. chess champion ( he won in 1971 the championship of the state of Massachusetts, but is schachlich no longer active ) then worked as a bankruptcy executor until he started playing poker early 1980.
The most successful year was for the very conservative gambling Harrington in 1995, when his greatest success - cashed succeeded, for the Harrington a prize money of 1 million U.S. dollars - winning the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. In the same year he also won a $ 2,500 No Limit Hold'em event of the WSOP, and a Seven Card Stud tournament at the European Poker Open in London. Harrington sat three more times at the final table of the main tournament: 1987 ( sixth place ), 2003 ( 3 ) and 2004 ( 4 ).
His first title at the World Poker Tour Harrington won in August 2007. He won the Los Angeles Legends of Poker tournament and received a cash prize of 1,634,865 U.S. dollars. In addition, 2005 he reached behind Minh Ly the second in a WPT event.
In his previous career, Harrington earned a prize of about $ 6.6 million.
Dan Harrington is one of the most successful authors of different poker books that are published by Two Plus Two Publishing:
- Harrington on Hold'em: Volume I: Strategic Play ISBN 1-880685-33-7 (2004)
- Harrington on Hold'em: Volume II: The Endgame ISBN 1-880685-35-3 (2005)
- Harrington on Hold'em: Volume III: The Workbook ISBN 1-880685-36-1 (2006)
- Harrington on Cash Games: Volume I (2008)
- Harrington on Cash Games: Volume II ( 2008)
These books have been published in German language.