Daniel Alaei – Poker Player Profile
Born in Sante Fe Springs, California in 1983, Daniel Alaei has kept a relatively low profile despite boasting an immensely successful career.
Prior to 2004, Alaei was mainly a cash game player, often found playing $50-$100 both live and online, where he’s known as “steamraise.” Perhaps fueled by his $35K cash for 59th in his first ever World Series of Poker Main Event, Daniel started making more time for tournaments. In 2005, he once again cashed in the WSOP Main Event, this time taking $55K for the 140th place. At the 2007 WSOP, he cashed in five events, one of them a first place finish in the $5K No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball for $430K. A year later, he added five more WSOP cashes, including his third and best finish in the Main Event, a very respectable 25th which made him $333K.
In addition to his 18 WSOP cashes, Alaei also has six World Poker Tour money finishes to his credit. In 2008, he had two top 20 finishes, finishing 20th in the Bellagio Cup IV for $51K and an even better 15th in the Festa Al Lago Classic for $53K. Recently, he finally struck WPT gold in the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic in 2009, winning the event for a staggering $1.4 million. All told, Alaei has made $3.7 in live tournament earnings.
Currently living in Las Vegas, Daniel Alaei has appeared on GSN’s High Stakes Poker with the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Sam Farha, and Phil Ivey. In spite of his solid achievements, he garners significantly less media attention than many other players of similar caliber. Within the poker community, however, Daniel Alaei is regarded as an extremely nice guy and a player who deserves the utmost respect, both for his skill on the tables and his pleasant demeanor.
Related Poker News:
- As the World Series Turns: djk, Alaei, Kassela Crowned, Easgate Abdicates, and the Main Event Party Start with a Bang
- 2009 WSOP: #18 Omaha Hi/Lo, Daniel Alaei Scoops Second Bracelet
- World Poker Tour Five Diamond Classic: Daniel Alaei Wins!
- WSOP Updates - Daniel Alaei, and Shirley Williams Get Lucky
- Las Vegas pro wins Doyle Brunson’s poker tournament
- WSOP Results – Daniel Alaei Outdraws the Competition in Deuce to Seven
- Daniel Alaei Wins WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic
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- Daniel Alaei Claims Third Bracelet; Huck Seed Wins TOC
- PokerStars Big Game: Joe Cada Drops $35,000 in Week 3 Kickoff Episode
- Cash out with Daniel Negreanu on Xbox live
Poker jargon:
- TOURNAMENT - A highly structured game involving potentially dozens of tables where all participants pay an entry fee and obtain a fixed number of chips. Once a tournament has started, additional players may not enter. As the game progresses players bust out and are eliminated until only one winner remains.
- ROLLED UP - In seven-card stud, being dealt three of a kind in the first three cards.
- STUD - Any of several poker games in which some of each players' cards are exposed.
- TRIP - Three of a specific kind, as in "Trip sixes".
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- LATE BLIND - In addition to "regular" blinds, some games allow a player (particularly a new one) to post a blind bet in return for the right to enter the game immediately and act last on the first betting round. The amount of the blind is determined by house rules, usually somewhere between the last blind and double the last blind. It is frequently a LIVE BLIND.
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