Dan Cates

Daniel Cates, known across the poker world as “Jungleman,” is one of the game’s biggest stars and most successful players in the world, having amassed more than $25 million in career earnings. He has traveled the globe playing in prestigious tournaments and high-stakes cash games and has become one of poker’s most recognizable players with his penchant for competing in costume—professional wrestlers, anime characters, the Terminator, a sea god, to name a few. He won his first million dollars in poker earnings as a college junior playing online poker and was regarded as a prodigy. Cates is a two-time World Series of Poker champion, winning the Poker Players Championship title in back-to-back years (2021, 2022).

Cates draws tons of coverage for his spotlight-grabbing tournament play, including on CBS Sports, NBC, and more. He is a frequent guest on the top poker podcasts and the host of his own podcast, Winning the Game of Life. Cates was one of the most featured players in NBC’s Poker After Dark and the 2024 poker reality program Game of Gold.