Daniel Willis is a British businessman and poker player with almost $200,000 in total live earnings.
In 2024, Willis journeyed to poker's premier festival, the World Series of Poker (WSOP), for the first time and on his first bullet in his first-ever event, he took down Event #3: $500 Kickoff NLHE for $175,578 along with a WSOP bracelet.
“Coming off the first event I played and having a huge win, it’s a dream come true moment,” Willis said to PokerNews after the triumph.
“In deep fields, thousands of players, you get these really crucial spots where you get your chips in and it’s a really critical hand to keep that momentum going,” Willis said. “And so many times when I played poker professionally 10-15 years ago before I started my music journey and business, I found that those crucial spots weren’t going my way really deep for very big prize money.
“But in this tournament, it just went really, really well in those crucial spots, like (Thursday) when I was like fifth or sixth in chips, perhaps seventh, and someone shoved all in, another big stack re-raised all in, and then I got kings in the big blind, so I call. I was up against jacks, Q3 suited. The flop came 2, 4, 5, so I had to dodge an Ace, a Jack, a 6, and I did. Those are the key spots where I just kept gaining momentum.”
