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Daniel Dvoress (born July 12, 1988) is a Canadian professional
poker
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player.
He is one of the top live poker earners from Canada.
Poker career
Dvoress was born in the Soviet Union and emigrated to Canada at the age of 8.
He began playing poker in high school. He started playing online poker in November 2006 under the nicknames "Oxota" on
PokerStars
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and "Oxotaments" on
Full Tilt Poker
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. He turned professional after college mainly focusing on online poker.
In May 2014, Dvoress won the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker and receiving US$400,000 US dollars in the process. He has online tournament winnings exceeding $2.6 million.
Dvoress prefers to stay out of the spotlight and is "Vegas-averse".
In 2019, he won the $250,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament at the
Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas after defeating the Malaysian Wai Chan, winning $4,080,000 in the process.
In August 2020, Dvoress won his first WSOP bracelet in $1,500 Millionaire Maker at the
2020 World Series of Poker Online
The 2020 World Series of Poker Online was a series of online poker tournaments organized by the World Series of Poker (WSOP). It was held from July 1-September 8 and featured 85 WSOP bracelet, bracelet events, 31 on WSOP.com and 54 on GGPoker.
I ...
and received $1,489,289.
As of 2025, Dvoress's total live poker tournament winnings exceed $41,800,000.
Coaching
Dvoress was a coach for
Phil Galfond
Phil Galfond (born January 16, 1985) is an American professional poker player. Galfond won three World Series of Poker bracelets, in the $5,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event in 2008, the $10,000 no-limit 2-7 single draw championshi ...
’s poker training site ''RunItOnce''.
References
External links
Card Player profileHendon Mob profileWPT profileWSOP profile
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Canadian poker players
Living people
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
1988 births