David Benefield is the 75th winningest poker player on HighstakesDB with 159797 hands played and a total profit of $796,453 (detailed graph). The player has been tracked since 2008-07-19.
David Benefield use to be a professional poker player and a Full Tilt pro.
But lately he has started to reevaluate life. He's been looking for the key to happiness. By focusing on the things that feels meaningful, David hasn't giving up on poker, but is back in school, studying Chinese, political science, economics and math. In 2009 he coached baseball for one season and he consider that one of the best things he has ever done. According to his blog on Cardrunners where he is an instructor that makes instructional NLHE videos under the name "Raptor".
Benefield has done well on the live tournament circuit, and cashed somewhere around $870K.
Most of his profits came from playing NLHE. Something worth mentioning is that Benefield was up a whole lot more in PLO, but encountered a major downswing.