Isle Open Championship (Day 1A): Heimiller Headlines The First Look At The Field

2017 Isle Open | Event #21
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Isle Open Championship| $500,000 GTD
Level 2 (Blinds 100/200/25)
Total Day 1A Entries: 47

While we usually feature players that are "legends" in the Florida poker scene, Dan Heimiller (Las Vegas, NV) is a player that holds that status wherever he finds himself playing tournaments.

A $500,000 guaranteed championship event is usually going to attract players from out of the area, and it's even enough to draw interest from players who have never been to the Isle Poker Room before.  Dan Hiemiller (Las Vegas, NV) may not be a name that followers of the blog may recognize, but if your finger has been on the pulse of tournament poker in this country, then you'd surely know who he is.

Heimiller has a tournament resume with over $6,000,000 in lifetime earnings, spanning a career that started in 1992.  There are numerous accolades that can be mentioned when referencing Heimiller: a total of (332) recorded results, (2) WSOP bracelets, (2) WSOP-Circuit rings,  (32) total tournament wins, 85th on the "U.S. All-Time Money list," and 11th on the "All-Time WSOP Cashes list," just to name a few.

Dan's career headlining score came in 2014, when he won his second WSOP bracelet, during the $1,000 No Limit Hold'em Seniors Championship.  The first place finish would be worth $627,462, which still stands as his largest tournament cash.  While Heimiller is one of the only players in the field that's playing in his first Isle Poker tournament, he surely won't be the last during this event.  Dan headlines the first group of notables in this Day 1A field, joining the likes of:

Joseph Couden

Matt Smith

Kenneth Bruno

Daniel Pearlman

Joshua Hillock

Frederico Dabus

Ido Ashkenazi

Sheldon Gross

Thomas Gari

Marc Levy

Paul Balzano

Jason Young

Daryl Jace

Anthony Utnage