George Danzer

Education

In May 2006 he finished 3rd at the Worlds Heads Up Championship in Barcelona.

Career

His total live tournament winnings exceed $1.9 million

At the 2006 Main Event, he became known as the player who is seen receiving a series bad beats at the Main Event, which resulted in increasing the stack of the then chip leader Dmitri Nobles. During the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network broadcast Danzer is seen leaving the table to steam off, only to return and congratulate his opponent. He made the final table at the 2007 in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event outlasting 678 players in his ninth place finish.

At the 2013 He made the final table the $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Study Hi-Low 8-or Better event finishing in 6th place for $34,348.

As of 2014, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,900,000. bracelets.

Achievements

• He won his third bracelet winning the $5,000 Mixed Event 8-Game event at the 2014 Asia Pacific. In his youth he excelled at Chess and played the World Youth Championship for Portugal as the sub 10 Portuguese Champion. At the 2010 Danzer finished 3rd in the $10,000 2–7 Draw Lowball Championship in a field of 101 players for $115,295 behind runner-up Eric Cloutier and the winner David "Bakes" Baker. At the 2012 He finished 2nd in the $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Study Hi-Low 8 or Better event $140,825 behind the winner Oleksii Kovalchuk and then finished 3rd in the $10,000 Number-Limit 2-7 Single Draw event for $115,295 behind runner-up Mike Wattel and winner Nick Schulman. At the 2014 Danzer won his first bracelet by winning the $10,000 Seven Card Razz event for $294,792. He later won his second bracelet by winning the $10,000 Seven-Card Study High-Low Championship event, earning $352,696. He won his third bracelet by winning the AU$5,000 8-Game Mixed event at the 2014 Asia Pacific, earning AU$84,600. His performance at the 2014 (which included events at the 2014 Asia Pacific) secured him the 2014 WSOP Player of the Year Award. An "A" following a year denotes bracelet(s) won at the Asia-Pacific As a member of Team PokerStars Pro, Danzer plays under his own name "GeorgeDanzer" among his highlights online are two World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) titles, the first in the 2009 WCOOP $320 Pot Limit Omaha event for $109,545 and his second in the 2012 WCOOP $320 Number Limit Hold’em event for $69,717.09 and four Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) titles his first was in 2010 winning the $162 Fixed-Limit Badugi (Medium) event for $10,345.70, in the 2012 SCOOP he won his 2nd and 3rd title, the $2,100 Netherlands Single Draw 2-7 (High) event for $34,040 and then the $2,100 Netherlands Hold"em (High) event for $155,000 then winning his fourth SCOOP title in the $2,100 PL Omaha (High) event for $129,645.