Dara O'Kearney

Dara O'Kearney, born on 17 June 1965 in Ennis, County Clare, is an Irish international ultra runner who is also a professional poker player. He won the 2005 Tresco marathon, the 2006 New York Road Runners 60K ultra marathon, the 2007 Schinnen 50K and the 2008 Brno Indoor 6 hour race, and he was the 2007 Irish 24 hour running champion. Away from running he won the 2008 European Deepstack Poker Championship, was ranked second in live tournaments in the official Irish Poker Rankings in 2009, 2010 and 2014, won the Mini Irish Open in 2015 and finished second in event 45 of the World Series of Poker that year. He is lead author of the books Poker Satellite Strategy and PKO Poker Strategy and co-hosts the poker podcast The Chip Race. He is the son of the Irish language activist and writer Sean Ua Cearnaigh.