Dan Harrington

**Dan Harrington** (an haife shi a ranar 6 ga Disamba, 1945) ƙwararren ɗan wasan karta ne, wanda aka fi sani da lashe Babban Bikin Gasar Poker ta Duniya a 1995. Ya sami kambun World Poker Tour sau ɗaya, munduwa biyu na WSOP, da kuma sama da dala miliyan shida na tsabar kuɗi a gasar poker a rayuwarsa. Hakanan memba ne na Poker Hall of Fame . 

Harrington ya zaɓi sunan da aka yi masa laƙabi da "Action Dan" duk da cewa an san shi da kasancewa ɗan wasa mai ra'ayin mazan jiya.  Ɗan uwa ne mai nisa ga ƙwararren ɗan wasan golf Pádraig Harrington da kuma tsohon ɗan wasan tsakiya na NFL Joey Harrington . 

## Rayuwar farko da kuma aikin kasuwanci
An haifi Harrington a Cambridge, Massachusetts . A halin yanzu yana zaune a Santa Monica, California, Harrington tsohon ɗan wasan backgammon ne kuma ƙwararren ɗan wasan chess na Amurka  (ya lashe Gasar Cin Kofin Chess ta Jihar Massachusetts a 1971). Kafin ya zama ƙwararren ɗan wasan poker kuma ɗan kasuwa, Harrington ya yi aiki na tsawon shekaru da yawa a matsayin lauyan fatara. Ya kuma buga wasan poker da Bill Gates yayin da Gates yake Harvard . Wasu daga cikin ƙwarewarsa ta farko ta poker sun fito ne daga Mayfair Club a tsakiyar shekarun 1980, inda ya buga wasa tare da Howard Lederer, Steve Zolotow, da Erik Seidel .

Baya ga kasancewa ƙwararren ɗan wasan karta, Harrington kuma yana aiki a fannin gidaje da kasuwar hannayen jari. Mista Harrington abokin haɗin gwiwa ne kuma tsohon memba na Hukumar Daraktocin Anchor Loans, mai ba da lamuni mai wahala don gyara da canza gidaje da hayar da hedikwatarsa ke Calabasas, CA.  Harrington ya kafa kamfanin a 1998 tare da abokan wasan karta biyu, Jeff Lipton da Stephen Pollack, kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin Babban Jami'in Gudanarwa na farko. Su ukun sun yi amfani da nasarar da suka samu a wasan karta don samar da kuɗaɗen gaggawa ga masu gyaran gidaje.  Tun daga lokacin Anchor Loans ta ba da kuɗaɗen lamuni sama da biliyan 5.3 kuma tana samun riba kowace shekara tun lokacin da aka kafa ta.  Harrington ya yi ritaya daga Anchor Loans a 2010, amma ya ci gaba da kasancewa mai hannun jari.  Ya kuma bayyana a lokacin hirarraki game da aikinsa na wasan karta, cewa yana nan don kuɗin, ba don shahara ko ɗaukaka ba. Haka kuma, ba kamar sauran ƙwararrun 'yan wasan karta ba, Dan yana ɗaukar kansa a matsayin ɗan wasa na ɗan lokaci ne kawai saboda yana ɓatar da lokaci mai yawa akan abubuwan da ya shafi kasuwanci. Yawanci yana buga wasanni kaɗan ne kawai a gasar World Series of Poker kowace shekara kuma yana buga wasanni na World Poker Tour da wasu gasannin.

## Aikin wasan karta
Harrington ya fara samun kuɗi a gasar World Series of Poker a shekarar 1986.  A shekara mai zuwa, da kuɗin WSOP na biyu kawai, Harrington ya shiga teburin ƙarshe na Babban Taron; ya kare a matsayi na shida a gasar, wanda Johnny Chan ya lashe. Abokin Harrington kuma memba na Mayfair Club, Howard Lederer shi ma ya kasance a wannan teburin ƙarshe, inda ya zo na biyar. 

Dan Harrington, wanda ya yi fice a gasar Boston Red Sox mai launin kore, an san shi da ɗan wasa mai wayo, mai tsaurin kai, yana amfani da ƙa'idodin farawa waɗanda suka fi tsauri fiye da yawancin ƙwararru. Lokacin da ya kai ga teburin ƙarshe a Babban Taron 1995, ya sanya wanda ya zo na biyu, Howard Goldfarb, ya yi kuskure wajen samun dukkan ƙwallonsa a hannun ƙarshe. A lokacin da ya yi nasarar Babban Wasan, Harrington ya zauna a Downey, California . Ya lashe dala miliyan 1,000,000 saboda nasararsa. 

Haka kuma, a shekarar 1995, ya lashe kyautar munduwa a gasar cin kofin duniya ta $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em akan $249,000 da kuma gasar cin kofin duniya ta Seven-card a gasar cin kofin duniya ta European Poker Open da ke Landan.   Ya shiga gasar cin kofin duniya ta World Poker Tour (WPT) a shekarar 2005, inda ya lashe kyautar $620,730 a matsayin wanda ya zo na biyu a gasar cin kofin duniya ta Doyle Brunson North American Championship . 

A farkon shekarun 2000, ya fito a wani shiri mai suna "Cash Poker", inda ya yi wasan kwaikwayo na $100/$200 Babu Iyaka Hold'em. 

A shekara ta 2007, ya lashe gasar WPT Legends of Poker akan kyautar dala $1,634,865. 

A shekara ta 2008, Harrington ya fara fitowa a shirin NBC na *Poker After Dark* a cikin shirin mai taken "Mayfair Club." Wannan gasar ta haɗu da 'yan wasan poker waɗanda suka buga wasa a shahararren kulob na Mayfair da ke birnin New York. Sauran 'yan wasan da suka fafata a gasar tare da Harrington sun haɗa da ƙwararrun 'yan wasan poker Lederer, Mickey Appleman, Steve Zolotow, Jay Heimowitz, da Mike Shictman, mamallakin kulob na Mayfair tsawon shekaru. Harrington ya yi nasara a matsayi na farko, inda ya kare a matsayi na shida. Heimowitz ne ya lashe gasar, wanda ya doke Lederer a wasan kai-tsaye. 

Wasansa mai kyau yana ba shi damar zuwa teburin ƙarshe da yawa a manyan taruka. Ya lashe Babban Taron Duniya na Poker (WSOP) a 1995 akan $1,000,000. Ya yi wasu jadawalin ƙarshe na Babban Taron guda uku: ya zo na shida a 1987 akan $43,750, na uku (daga cikin 'yan wasa 839) a 2003 akan $650,000,  da na huɗu (daga cikin 'yan wasa 2,576) a 2004 akan $1,500,000.  Saboda ƙaruwar adadin mahalarta, an kira shi babban nasarar da ya samu a tarihin Duniya na Wasanni, musamman ta mai shelar wasan karta na ESPN Norman Chad . Daga baya Mark Newhouse ya yi daidai da wannan bajintar a 2013 da 2014. A matsayinsa na zakaran kare kambun a 1996, Harrington ya sake yin wani babban gudu a Babban Event, inda ya kare a matsayi na 17 kuma ya sami dala $23,400.  Ya samu kudi a Babban Event na 2009, inda ya kare a matsayi na 252 da kudin da aka biya dala $32,963. 

Harrington, Doyle Brunson, Carlos Mortensen, Scotty Nguyen, Joe Hachem da Ryan Riess su ne kawai mutane shida da suka lashe gasar World Series of Poker Main Event da kuma gasar World Poker Tour.

Ya zuwa shekarar 2014, nasarorin da ya samu a gasar kai tsaye sun wuce dala miliyan 6,600,000, wanda ya tara tsawon shekaru 34, wanda hakan ya ba shi damar samun kuɗi a wasanni 52.  Fiye da rabin nasarorin da ya samu a gasar kai tsaye ($3,524,476) sun zo ne a WSOP. 

A shekara ta 2010, an shigar da Harrington cikin jerin shahararrun 'yan wasan Poker na duniya. 

## Littattafai
Ya rubuta (tare da Bill Robertie ) littattafai uku masu shahara kan wasannin poker na gasa, littattafai biyu kan wasannin kuɗi marasa iyaka da littafi ɗaya kan wasannin kuɗi marasa iyaka na kan layi, duk an buga su ne ta Two Plus Two Publishing :

* *Harrington akan Hold'em : Juzu'i na I: Wasan Dabaru*  (2004)
* *Harrington akan Hold'em: Juzu'i na II: Wasan Ƙarshe*  (2005)
* *Harrington akan Hold'em: Juzu'i na III: Littafin Aiki*  (2006)
* *Harrington akan Wasannin Kudi, Juzu'i na I: Yadda ake Yin Wasannin Kudi na Hold 'em Babu Iyaka*  (2008)
* *Harrington akan Wasannin Kudi, Juzu'i na II: Yadda ake Yin Wasannin Kudi na Hold 'em Babu Iyaka*  (2008)
* *Harrington akan Wasannin Kudi na Kan layi; 6-Max Babu Iyaka Riƙe 'em*  (2010)
* *Harrington akan Gasar Poker ta Zamani*  (2014)

## Mundaye na Duniya na Poker

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