Seat 9: Dan Fleyshman (1,946,000)
Out of all the people at Victory Poker, Dan Fleyshman may be the most unrecognizable face. With pros like Antonio Esfandiari, Brian Rast and Andrew Robl on his team, Fleyshman’s poker skills may go a bit unnoticed.
Fleyshman doesn’t have a ton of big results on record, but he tends to make it count when he makes the money of an event. He has ten cashes and out of those ten, five are wins. That’s not bad at all when you’re batting .500 for an average.
The two largest scores Fleyshman has on record are a win in a $500 event at the Bellagio in 2005 for $26,740 and a win at the 2009 $2,500 WPS/CPT Championship for $38,200. In total, the man from San Diego, California has over $105,000 in career earnings, but right now it looks as though he’ll be winning plenty more than that in this one event.
He began playing poker in 2005 as more of a hobby than a profession. Soon after he began playing, a year later Fleyshman won the first ever CEO Poker Championship that was held at the Palms in Las Vegas, but that’s not his claim to fame.
Fleyshman began a clothing line called Who’s Your Daddy that eventually launched into Kohl’s and Mervyn’s stores before landing a three-year distribution deal in Europe. From there, the line began raking in the cash and grossed more than $15 million over the next couple of years. After that, Fleyshman decided to launch an energy drink and saw his product rise up the charts, much like he sees his chip stack doing in this WSOP Europe Main Event. When he decided it was time to take the company to the stock market at the young age of 23, Fleyshman was made the youngest owner of a publicly traded company in history. Ever had Who’s Your Daddy Energy Drink? Well, that’s Fleyshman’s stuff.
Fast-forward a few years to when Fleyshman was 28. He becamse the CEO of Victory Poker and hopes to see the company rise through the ranks much like his other successes have. If it’s anything like he’s been doing in this event, hard work and solid decisions will lead him there.
Fleyshman will begin the final table as the chip leader with 1,946,000. That's about 18.75% of the chips in play.