In January 2022, Pennsylvania's David "DrKool" Kuder quit his job as a poker dealer at Wind Creek Casino and decided to play the game full-time. He had been playing online poker since the Moneymaker Boom and opted to stick with that, spending the year playing a full schedule on WSOP PA.
Twelve months later, it would be difficult to argue that Kuder's gamble hadn't paid off. After cashing in 46 WSOP PA events and picking up two Circuit rings — his first in a $215 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha PKO event in June for $6,801 and a $215 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout event the next month for $6,160 — for a total in $70,406 in earnings on the site alone, Kuder was named the first-ever WSOP PA Player of the Year.