Author of Video Poker - Optimum Play™
Email Dan at Dan@OptimumPlay.com

Dan is a retired computer engineer and programmer. He became interested in video poker after moving to Las Vegas in 1989. His first endeavor was to survey the casinos and publish a directory of good video poker opportunities in Las Vegas. Not satisfied with the strategies then available, he put his 30+ years of computer experience to use analyzing games, put it all together, and published Video Poker — Precision Play in 1992. Starting at 44 pages in 1992, it evolved as new games and questions came up that were not covered. Then, in 1998, the 68-page tenth edition was replaced by Dan's 199-page book, Video Poker — Optimum Play, which is now in its third edition, at 230 pages and expanded to include a discussion on tactics.

He published the Video Poker Times newsletter from 1993 through 2006, adding pocket-size cue cards and other booklets, including Video Poker Optimized: The Tactics of Winning Play, along the way. Dan still plays video poker frequently, and live table poker occasionally, and has recently retired to New Mexico to be near his family.