In 2014, working at my second World Series of Poker as a tournament reporter for PokerNews, I got the assignment to cover Event #40: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship. There, sensei Mickey Doft was pointing out some of the players I wasn't familiar with to help get me set for the day's coverage.
One of the players he identified for me was one Daniel Colman. This young man, I was told, made his name crushing hyper-turbo sit-n-goes online and had begun successfully transitioning into big-stakes live poker with a $2 million score at that year's European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Super High Roller.