Daniel Heimiller (born June 25, 1962) is an American professional poker player who won the Limit Hold'em & Seven-Card Stud event at the

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and the Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship in 2014. He has at least one WSOP cash for 25 consecutive years (1997-2021). He is ranked 5th in all time number of live tournament cashes and 12th in all time number of WSOP cashes. Heimiller was born in

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and raised in Livonia, Michigan. At one time he was a

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as well as an

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. For over 30 years he has been playing a variety of poker events which includes the

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(WSOP), the

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(WPT) and the

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(PPT). Dan Heimiller won Best All Around Player at the Commerce Casino in 1999. He has won 42 of the 417 tournaments he cashed in, and in one two-year period, Heimiller won nine tournaments and appeared at 33 final tables.

World Series of Poker

Heimiller has won two

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. The first was at the

in the $2,000 buy-in Limit

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event defeating fellow professional poker player

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during heads-up play, the final table at the event also included such notables as Paul McKinney and Max Stern. The second was at the

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where Heimiller won the $1,000 Seniors Championship event defeating a record field of 4,425 players to win $627,462 along with the bracelet. He also has two WSOP Circuit Rings among his 12 Circuit cashes. Heimiller has cashed 91 times at the WSOP with an additional 17 cashes in WSOP Circuit, APAC and WSOP Online. In addition to his two bracelet wins, Heimiller has also made 18 other WSOP final tables which includes 2 runner-up finishes. The first was in the

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$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo event where he was bested by

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, and the second was in the

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$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo event. Heimiller has also cashed six times in the WSOP Main Event in 2002, 2006, 2007, 2016, 2018 and 2019

World Series of Poker bracelets

World Championship of Online Poker

Heimiller playing under the

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(WCOOP) bracelet from the 2003 WCOOP $300 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha High-Low event.

Other poker events

Heimiller has cashed fifteen times at the World Poker Tour, with his biggest cash being the 2008 Borgata Poker Open, where he finished in 3rd place for $387,500. He also finished fifth in a Professional Poker Tour event for $30,000. At the 2009

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, Heimiller made the final table and finished in seventh place, earning $300,000. As of 2021, his total live tournament winnings exceed $6,372,000. His 105 WSOP and related cashes account for over $2,500,000 of those winnings.

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