Irish astrophysicist and poker pro Dan Wilson has taken victory in the PokerStars Winter Series Two Million Event, bagging $226,733 in the process. [Image: Shutterstock.com] It is rocket-science
The week after he watched the successful space launch of the James Webb telescope, a project with which he felt a deep connection, Irish poker pro Dan Wilson rocketed his way to the top of chip-counts in the PokerStars Winter Series Two Million Event.
After a bit of business heads-up, a protracted battle ensued versus UK poker veteran Andrew Hulme. Wilson ultimately emerged victorious to take down the tournament for $226,733, his biggest ever online result.
Wilson has been a professional player for over a decade, initially playing online whilst completing his doctoral thesis in astrophysics. Despite being predominantly an online grinder, his live results are not too shabby. In 2016, he won the Irish Poker Open for €150,000 ($169,660). In 2018, he came third in the Goliath Phamous Poker Main Event for $250,422. He also made deep runs in the WSOP Main Event in 2014 (65th) and 2018 (71st).
VegasSlotsOnline News spoke to Wilson, who is also a qualified pilot, an avid landscaper, and a snooker centurion, about poker and rocket science. Sky-rockets in flight
On Christmas Day, the most ambitious and expensive robot probe ever built, the $10bn James Webb telescope, blasted into space on top of a giant European rocket from the Guiana Space Centre. Described as a ‘time machine’ by scientists, it will allow astronomers to study the beginning of the universe shortly after the big bang, 13.8 billion years ago, while also searching for signs of life-supporting planets in our own galaxy. It will succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA’s flagship mission in astrophysics. Wilson told VSO he was super excited about the launch.
“My PhD centered around the modeling of space telescopes, in particular the Planck telescope, a predecessor to the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope ,” he explained. “ These kinds of projects can take decades from design to launch and are often the work of some scientists’ entire careers, never mind […]
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