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Paul "The Truth" Darden Jr. (born October 27) is an American professional poker player, rap music promoter, and night club owner from New Haven, Connecticut.

When growing up in New Haven, Darden's friends were robbers and drug dealers. He was accused of murder at the age of 15, but was acquitted due to mistaken identity. Poker was Darden's way of changing his life around, and he was helped in this by his mentor, Phil Ivey.

Originally, he was best known as a seven-card stud player, where he had several notable tournament finishes in 2000 prior to winning the World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet in 2001 for the $2,500 seven card stud event, defeating the likes of Andy Bloch, Ivo Donev and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson.

Darden was taught how to play no limit hold'em by fellow poker professional Phil Ivey. In 2002, Darden won a World Poker Tour (WPT) title in the £3,000 main event of the Gold Rush tournament. He would later finish in 2nd place behind Gus "The Great Dane" Hansen in the WPT Bad Boys of Poker invitational event. Additionally, in March 2005 he finished 5th in the $10,000 main event of the PartyPoker.com Million IV cruise.

In 2003, he made his first money finish in the $10,000 WSOP main event, finishing in 45th place. He also cashed in the same event in 2005.

As of 2006 his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,700,000.

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