Coming
from a college background including Princeton and Southern Methodist
University, David Williams an active World Poker
Tour Professional, Professional Poker Tour Participant,
and Card Player Magazine cover story.
Before becoming a professional poker player, David, now 25 years old, was an avid "Magic" player, a game that is only played one-on-one.
Before becoming a professional poker player, David, now 25 years old, was an avid "Magic" player, a game that is only played one-on-one.
Within
the last year, David Williams has truly established himself as an
important part of the professional poker tour landscape. With Two
Second Place finishes in key tournaments, the Borgata Poker Open and
the World Series of Poker No Limit Hold'em Poker Championship,
David Williams proves his tournament mettle. David Williams is one of
the World Poker Tour's "Young Guns" and has been featured
in Playboy and ALL IN Magazines as the Future of
Poker.
The
young gun poker pro does a good job of concealing it with his
good looks, stylish clothes, sunglasses and aggressive approach to
card play. But he's the first to admit that he loves science and
math, was a compulsive university student with a 4.0 GPA, and enjoys
the Discovery Channel and playing the not-so-chic card game
"Magic: The Gathering" – a fantasy-based strategy
card game where players attack each other using tactics available in
their deck of Magic cards, which include creatures and spells. He was
a natural and eventually became a top-ranked Magic player competing
in tournaments around the world.
David
Williams has had numerous big cashes since bursting onto the
poker scene, but the $1.5 million firt-place prize-money, along with
a WPT Championship, clearly reestablishes Williams as one of the best poker players in the world. In 2004, while playing at the
Bodog.com poker room, Williams won a seat at the World Series
of Poker. There the unknown player made it to the final table of
the WSOP main event and caught the attention of the professional
poker world by placing second to Greg "Fossilman"
Raymer and winning $3.5 million. It was the best ever WSOP finish
for an African-American player.
Just
four months later, David Williams proved he was no fluke by
placing second at the World Poker Tour Borgata Open, winning
an almost $600,000 pot. That same year he earned his inaugural
first-place tournament finish at the Limit Hold'em Five Diamond
World Poker Classic in Las Vegas where he picked up a $121,000
pot. He continued tournament play into 2005, but failed to make any
final tables at the WSOP.
However,
by 2006, Williams was a final-table fixture, regularly picking up
six-figure pots. At the WPT No-Limit Hold'em main event at the
Bay 101 Shooting Stars in San Jose, he earned $280,000 for his
fourth-place finish. He claimed the H.O.R.S.E. event of the
2006 WSOP Circuit Series at Caesars Las Vegas for $91,250 and
another fourth-place spot in a WPT main event that year handed him
$221,958.
"I
guess you could say I have this cool guy image, but deep inside, I'm
a geek,” David Williams said. Like
many who play both, he has asserted that the two are for different
purposes:he plays Magic to have fun, and poker to make money.
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