In 2014, Dan Colman (pictured) earned $22.3 million from live poker tournaments, according to the Hendon Mob, and made waves with his off-the-felt antics. He more than doubled the next closest person on the 2014 money list, won the most money ever by a tournament player in a year, and, accordingly, captured the CardPlayer and Bluff Player of the Year honors.

We’ll start with CardPlayer, where Colman logged nine qualifying final tables in 2014, highlighted by his massive $15.3 million victory in the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop at the World Series of Poker. Colman piled up 5,498 CardPlayer Player of the Year Points in 2014, but only 600 of them came from the Big One. Here were the top 10 finishers in the race:

1. Daniel Colman – 5,498 points ($22,319,279 in winnings)
2. Ami UhhMee Barer – 5,042 points ($2,363,903 in winnings)
3. Mike goleafsgoeh Leah – 4,830 points ($2,054,400 in winnings)
4. Mustapha lasagnaaammm Kanit – 4,514 points ($1,234,776 in winnings)
5. Martin Jacobson – 4,148 points ($10,677,589 in winnings)
6. Mukul NeVerMuK Pahuja – 4,146 points ($1,395,891 in winnings)
7. Dylan Wilkerson – 4,096 points ($1,287,851 in winnings)
8. Jake Schindler – 3,955 points ($2,217,434 in winnings)
9. Davidi legrouzin Kitai – 3,829 points ($2,176,343 in winnings)
10. Simon x1deadman1x Deadman – 3,742 points ($1,058,355 in winnings)

Over on Bluff, the site’s Editor-in-Chief, Lance Bradley, commented, “Colman did this year what poker players dream of – he burst into the tournament scene with multiple million-dollar scores and seemed to make final tables at will. The Bluff POY is about recognizing excellence, and on the felt Colman was certainly the model of that this year.”

Colman beat out Leah in the Bluff Player of the Year race, amassing over 1,400 points, 300 more than the Canadian:

1. Daniel Colman – 1,447.70 points
2. Mike goleafsgoehLeah – 1,149.64 points
3. Dan KingDan Smith – 949.35 points
4. Ami UhhMeeBarer – 930.79 points
5. Ole Schemion – 927.56 points
6. Martin Jacobson – 888.50 points
7. Mukul NeVerMuKPahuja – 882.40 points
8. Pratyush FenwayKing Buddiga – 881.36 points
9. Davidi legrouzinKitai – 877.60 points
10. Doug Polk – 823.55 points

Colman’s year was one of the most impressive in the history of poker. He won the EPT Grand Final Super High Roller in April for $2.1 million and then made the semis of a Heads-Up WSOP event for $111,000. His One Drop victory occurred shortly thereafter and was worth $15.3 million and, in July, Colman finished third in a Super High Roller event at Aria in Las Vegas for $796,000.

In August, Colman won the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event for $1.4 million and took second in the EPT Barcelona Super High Roller for another $1.1 million. He finished off the year by taking third in the WPT Alpha8 stop in London for $957,000 and finishing seventh in the ACOP Super High Roller for $373,000. Other than that, it was a pretty slow year. He cashed in tournaments on three continents and had four wins in 11 cashes, according to the Hendon Mob.

We won’t get into Colman’s well-documented antics off the table in this article. Therefore, we’ll close by congratulating him on his breakthrough year!

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