David Peters (born April 16, 1987) is an American professional poker player from

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. One of the most prolific tournament players of all-time, Peters' live tournament winnings exceed $40,000,000.

Poker career

David Peters declared that he started playing after seeing

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win the 2003

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Main Event. He looked for some online freerolls, ended up winning one of them for $600. Since 2006, Peters has been an active and successful participant in the major poker tournament circuit both in the United States and overseas. On the circuit, his nickname is "''silent assassin''".

World Series of Poker

Peters has won four

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s, the first of which came in a $1,500

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event at the

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; he won $412,557 as a result of his victory. His second bracelet came during the

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, a special version of the World Series that was organized due to the

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. In addition to his bracelet victories, Peters has won one World Series of Poker Circuit event, earning $86,908 and a championship ring. Across all World Series of Poker branded events, Peters has cashed a total of 70 times, with 17 final tables.

World Series of Poker bracelets

An "O" following a year denotes bracelet(s) won during the World Series of Poker Online

World Poker Tour

At the

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, Peters has career earnings of over $2,800,000. His earnings come from nine cashes and three final tables. His best finish on the WPT came in the 2016 WPT National - Philippines $200,000 buy-in event. He finished runner-up in that tournament for a cash of $2,309,000, which is his largest cash to date.

European Poker Tour

At the

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, Peters has five career cashes for over $600,000. He has made one final table on the EPT.

Other tournament success

On July 4, 2015, Peters scored his first career cash of at least $1 million in the $500,000 No-Limit Hold'em Eight Max tournament held at the 2015

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Super High Roller Bowl. He finished fifth in the tournament. In June 2021, Peters won three events over a span of five days at the U.S. Poker Open, earning the series championship for the second time; he also won in

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References

Living people American poker players World Series of Poker bracelet winners People from Toledo, Ohio 1987 births {{poker-stub