As the $10,400 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship in Las Vegas draws closer, Alaska's Daniel Gilpin is hoping for another big Vegas score after qualifying into the $40 million guaranteed event on ClubWPT.
The retired gold miner will join other World Championship Passport winners like Chace McKamie and James Campbell at Wynn Las Vegas for a chance to win life-changing money and play with poker's biggest names and stars.
PokerNews caught up with Gilpin to talk about his previous poker success, discovering the game in Alaska and how he is excited to get out of the tundra and play poker in Las Vegas.