Beating out hundreds of players in the field and surviving a rollercoaster heads-up match, Dash hugged his mother when his winning hand, eight-two, secured his victory and $116,215 prize. Biting fingernails and snapping pictures from the rail, Dash’s sisters traveled from Florida, where they now attend college, to cheer on their big brother in the televised tournament. The close-knit Dudley family was on hand Sunday night as the HPT filmed two episodes at Soaring Eagle Casino Resort in Mt.
The 24-year-old Dash, named after a character on the rags-to-riches sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies”, vowed to help his family if he found riches of his own on a different TV show, “The Heartland Poker Tour.”
Just as the family began to recover, their Lansing, Michigan home was devastated by fire. Five masked robbers broke into his family home, pistol-whipped him, tied up his parents and younger sisters, and robbed the Dudley’s in an armed attack. Pleasant, MI – Three years ago, poker pro Dash Dudley lost his entire bankroll, and not at a poker table.
