Dan Ketterman

Dan is a tournament player through and through, most at home in the back half of a long MTT where the pay jumps start to bite. He covers MTT strategy, ICM, and Sit & Go play, with a focus on the moments where tournament math quietly overrides raw hand strength — the folds and shoves that don't feel right until you run the numbers. He has the scars from every bubble to prove the point.

Fifteen years in, Dan still can't shake the pull of a deep run — the particular quiet of a final table when everyone suddenly starts playing the payouts instead of the cards. He writes the way he plays: patient early, ruthless late. Ask him about a hand and the first thing he'll want to know is the stack sizes and the pay jumps, long before he'll bother looking at your actual cards.

• Tournament (MTT) strategy
• ICM
• Sit & Go