It certainly isn't easy finding lots of info about past wins (except for WSOP), but if you're interested, I got this off Barry Greensteins site...

Dan Harrington
Aggressiveness: 4
Looseness: 3
Short-handed: 6
Limit: 7
No-limit: 7
Tournaments: 7
Side games: 7
Steam control: 8
Against weak players: 7
Against strong players: 7

Best game: I'm not sure, but he has some nice results in no-limit hold'em tournaments.
Weakness: He isn't willing to put much money at risk, even if it is warranted.

Dan was a solid player in the ‘80’s before moving on to a successful business career involving some sort of real estate loans. His running-buddy in the ‘80’s was Ray Zee who always ridiculed tournaments (as did many winning cash game players) and advised Dan of the foolishness of playing in them.

What I like best about Dan is he not animated like a lot of poker players and not too full of himself. He is incredibly thrifty, to put it mildly. When Dan goes to a new venue his mission is finding the cheapest place to eat. I’m not sure if he owns a car and he used to rent rooms in friend’s houses at discount rates even when he was well off financially.


Amusing anecdote

When Dan made it to the final table of the 1995 World Series of Poker, he proposed a nine-way settlement to the other players. He explained how they would each get enough money that they could invest it and be rich. Chuck Thompson, one of the players and a friend of mine, rejected the idea and told the other players that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a million dollars. One by one, as each player got knocked out, Dan tried to sell the idea, even offering investment counseling. There were no takers and eventually Dan came away with the full million.


Dan Harrington was born in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1945 and graduated from Suffolk Law School in Boston. In Dan’s college years he played poker with some students from Harvard including Paul Allen and Bill Gates. Harrington now runs Anchor Loans, where he loans money while at the same time investing in the stock market and real estate. Dan views real estate and the stock market as just another type of game, and claims there are many similarities between poker and business. Poker isn’t the only game in which Dan has excelled, he was a state chess champion in 1971 and won the World Cup of Backgammon in 1980.

Dan Harrington’s achievements in tournament poker are in a league with the best in the game – Harrington came in 6th in his first ever WSOP Championship in 1987 and won the WSOP No Limit Hole ‘em Event and the No Limit Hold ‘em Championship in 1995. Harrington made the final table of the two largest entry fields in WSOP Championship history, 2003 and 2004, collecting $2.15 million for his 3rd and 4th place finishes. Dan Harrington’s is known for being a true “rock” at the table – his play is very low risk and conservative, but obviously successful.