Daniel Colman rose to fame in 2014, with his victory in the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop event at the WSOP. He won 15.3 million dollars, the second largest first-place prize in poker history. Following his success, he declined all interviews and later explained his reasons in a post in the Two Plus Two poker forum. The main problems he noted were the undue promotion of gambling and the distorted image of poker presented by the media.
He is known to play online under the "mrGR33N13" and "riyyc22" nicknames.