Team Poker Stars Gains David Williams

Team Poker Stars has a new member and it’s a familiar face at that. It’s David Williams, 2010 World Poker Tour Champion, joining fellow poker stars Daniel Negreanu (host of FOX TV’s Poker Stars Million Dollar Challenge), Barry Greenstein (the poker philanthropist who donates all his winnings to charity), and Joe Cada (the 21-year-old whiz kid who won the 2009 WSOP Main Event crown).

David Williams, who started out in cards not with poker, nor even with standard playing cards, but rather with Magic: The Gathering, has since earned nearly $8 million in career poker winnings to date. David Williams’ first biggest splash on the poker scene was probably his second place finish in the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event (for a $3.5 million payday). Just a few months later he again was runner-up in a major live poker event, this time the $10,000 World Poker Tour Borgata event (for a $573,800 payday).

Then, a couple years later, David Williams won himself a World Series of Poker gold bracelet in the $1,500 7-Card Stud event (for a $163,118 payday). And finally, in April of this year David Williams won the $25,000 WPT Championship (for a $1,530,537 payday).

David Williams will officially be rung in as the newest member of Team PokerStars in a July 6 press conference where fellow Team PokerStars pros 2009 WSOP Main Event Champ Joe Cada and 2010 NAPT Mohegan Sun champ Vanessa Selbst will both also be present to welcome him to the team.