Background
Heimiller was born in California and raised in Livonia, Michigan.
Heimiller was born in California and raised in Livonia, Michigan.
His total live tournament winnings exceed $4.7 million. At one time he was a Las Vegas Cab driver as well as an industrial engineer, who for over 25 years been playing a variety of poker events which includes the (WSOP), the World Poker Tour (WPT) and the Professional Poker Tour (Powerpoint Engineering). Dan Heimiller is survived by a younger brother John Heimiller who works in the Information Technology industry.
He ranks 21st in all time cashes at the including two WSOP bracelets and 15 final tables.
World Series of Poker bracelets
World Championship of Online Poker
Heimiller playing under the PokerStars screen name "Lenny" ranks first in all time final tables with five and tied in fifth for all time cashes with 18 in the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) including one bracelet from the 2003 WCOOP $300 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha High-Low event. He also finished 5th in a Professional Poker Tour event for $30,000
At the 2009 European Poker Tour"s PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Heimiller made the final table and finished in seventh place, earning $300,000.
As of June 2014, his total live tournament winnings exceed $4,700,000. His 52 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,025,279 of those winnings.
Dan Heimiller won Best All Around Player at the Commerce Casino in 1999. In one two-year period, Heimiller won nine tournaments and appeared at 33 final tables. Heimiller won his first WSOP bracelet in the $2000 buy-in mixed game event that was made up of one-half Texas Hold"em and one-half Seven-card stud, defeating follow professional poker player Ram Vaswani during heads-up play, the final table at the event also included such notables as Paul "Cigar" McKinney, Max Stern and Alan "Boston" Dvorkis. Heimiller has cashed 39 times at the WSOP besides the event in which he won his bracelet, Heimiller has also made 14 other WSOP final tables which includes finishing runner-up in for $63,580 in the 2001 WSOP $ 1,500 Seven Card Study Hi-Lo Split Eight or Better event to CardPlayer Magazine publisher and Chief Executive Officer Barry Shulman. Finishing 3rd for $103,360 at 2001 WSOP $2,000 Limit Hold"em event won by Kevin Song and most recently placing 3rd at the 2008 WSOP $1,500 Number Limit Hold"em event, earning $275,695 Heimiller has also cashed three times in the WSOP Main Event, in 2002, 2006 and 2007. At the 2014 WSOP, Heimiller won the $1,000 Seniors Champtionship event, defeating a record field of 4,425 players to win $627,462 and his second bracelet.
