Dan Idema

Daniel Idema is a Canadian professional poker player from South Delta, British Columbia. In 2007 he won the 2,500 dollar buy-in British Columbia Poker Championship main event, beating a field of 643 players for the 410,000 dollar first prize. In 2011 he bested a field of 152 players to take down the 10,000 dollar buy-in Limit Holdem Championship at the 2011 World Series of Poker, claiming his first WSOP gold bracelet and 378,642 dollars, and in 2013 he won his second gold bracelet in Event 39, the 1,500 dollar buy-in Seven Card Stud hi/lo. Before poker he played hockey, three years in the Western Hockey League with the Medicine Hat Tigers and one year in the Ontario Hockey League with the Saginaw Spirit, and in 2004 he anchored the Medicine Hat defence corps that played for the Memorial Cup in Kelowna.