Despite saying that poker is a “very dark game,” Dan Colman (pictured) has steamrolled the competition this year. In April, he won the EPT Grand Final Super High Roller for a blistering $2.1 million. He followed that up by taking down the WSOP’s Big One for One Drop for $15.3 million, famously ducking the media after the victory and lambasting the game on Two Plus Two.

In August, Colman finished second in the EPT Barcelona Super High Roller for $1.1 million and followed that up by taking down the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event for another $1.4 million. This week, Colman continued to churn out enviable finishes, taking down the WPT’s Alpha8 event in London for $957,000. That tournament had 23 entrants, 17 of which were unique, and Colman rebought one time into the £60,000 event.

According to the Hendon Mob, Colman has 10 in the money finishes in live MTTs this year; four of them are for at least $1 million, while seven are for at least $100,000. He has $22 million in winnings this year. Here’s how his 2014 run looks:

October 6, 2014
£60,000 WPT Alpha8 London Main Event
1st place for $957,396

August 28, 2014
$5,300 NLHE Seminole Hard Rock Main Event
1st place for $1,446,710

August 18, 2014
€50,000 EPT Barcelona Super High Roller
2nd place for $1,118,479

July 10, 2014
$100,000 Aria Super High Roller
3rd place for $796,821

June 29, 2014
$1,000,000 WSOP Big One for One Drop
1st place for $15,306,668

June 25, 2014
$5,000 WSOP NLHE
19th place for $22,309

June 19, 2014
$10,000 WSOP NLHE Heads-Up
3rd place for $111,942

May 2, 2014
€10,300 EPT Grand Final NLHE Turbo Six-Max
5th place for $68,526

April 24, 2014
€100,000 EPT Grand Final Super High Roller
1st place for $2,127,398

January 11, 2014
PCA High Roller
27th place for $59,300

Colman is #3 on tournament poker’s all-time money list behind only Daniel Negreanu (pictured) and Antonio Esfandiari after being ranked 1,999th six months ago. He is #62 on GPI.

While Colman has certainly excelled on the felts, he has shown little desire to promote the game away from the tables despite entering the richest and most visible tournaments in the world. Back in August, he Tweeted that poker is merely a “distraction to people [that takes away] focus from things that matter to people’s lives.” At the same time, he said, “I do not care about poker.”

Negreanu responded to previous comments from Colman by suggesting that the young haymaker perhaps consider another career: “If you are genuinely having an issue with the morality of playing poker for a living, make a choice. Don’t compromise your own moral code for money. If you truly believe in your heart that what you are doing hurts people, and you don’t want to hurt people, you need to make a choice.”

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