Dan Hammond has tracked results on 185 different machines
Six venues, none of them carrying more than 35% of his events, and the widest machine log of anybody in the state's top twelve. He plays everywhere, which is why his record looks the way it does.
·3 min read·Tilt Stats
Most of the players in the 2026 Minnesota top 25 have a home room. Dan Hammond has six.
| Venue | Events | Games | Average finish | Firsts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northstar | 68 | 562 | 2.11 | 200 |
| LITT Pinball Bar | 40 | 218 | 1.89 | 98 |
| Blainbrook | 33 | 265 | 2.55 | 57 |
| Bad Penny | 24 | 167 | 2.11 | 70 |
| Broken Clock | 17 | 173 | 1.98 | 64 |
| 56 Brewing | 5 | 44 | 2.09 | 18 |
Northstar is his busiest room and it carries only 35% of his 193 tracked events. That spread is the most even in the state's top fifteen, and it produces the widest machine log anywhere in this year's list: 185 different machines with tracked results.
(IFPA lists him as Dan Hammond; the Match Play data behind this site has him as Daniel. Same profile.)
The Blainbrook problem
One line in that table sticks out. His average finish at Blainbrook is 2.55, against 1.89 at LITT and 1.98 at Broken Clock. Fifty-seven firsts from 265 games in Blaine, against 98 from 218 at LITT.
The head-to-head records explain it exactly:
- Trevor Klungseth: 7-19 over 26 games
- Adam Turgeson: 7-17 over 24 games
- Bryan Moen: 8-12 over 20 games
Three Blainbrook regulars, 70 games, 22 wins. Everywhere else in the metro he holds his own; in Blaine the room has his number.
Where he is comfortable
| Opponent | Record | Games |
|---|---|---|
| Louis Acre-Kendall | 66-55-10 | 131 |
| Nathan Reardon | 55-38-9 | 102 |
| Andy Fleming | 48-24-9 | 81 |
| James Skelley | 37-22-11 | 70 |
| Jack Copeland | 32-11-4 | 47 |
The Acre-Kendall and Reardon records are his two deepest, 233 games between them and both comfortably positive. The one that costs him is Luke Nahorniak: 29-72 with 14 ties over 115 games, a 31.3% clip. They share Northstar, so the sample keeps growing. Outside the top 25, Zane Chavis is 14-5 up on him and David Thell 14-7.
Godzilla, and a lot of everything else
| Machine | Score | Win rate | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| Godzilla | 0.807 | 86.2% | 16 |
| King Kong: Myth of Terror Island | 0.788 | 86.0% | 9 |
| Swords of Fury | 0.763 | 81.4% | 15 |
| Spanish Eyes | 0.753 | 81.3% | 9 |
| Pulp Fiction | 0.743 | 81.8% | 8 |
| Total Nuclear Annihilation | 0.709 | 75.0% | 9 |
| Transformers | 0.688 | 74.2% | 12 |
Sixteen games of Godzilla with 13 firsts, one second, one third and one fourth is the strongest line in his file and one of the better Godzilla records in the state. Swords of Fury at 15 games and 81.4% is the other one with real weight behind it.
Note what is on that list: a 1972 Gottlieb wedgehead (Spanish Eyes), a 1987 Williams (Swords of Fury), a 2017 indie (Total Nuclear Annihilation) and two modern Sterns. Playing six rooms means seeing everything, and it shows.
His weak list runs the same way:
- Hot Tip (EM), 0.343 over 14 games, a 29.3% win rate
- Pirates of the Caribbean, 0.365 over 9 games
- Monte Carlo, 0.421 over 9 games
- Bounty Hunter, 0.450 over 9 games
Fourteen games of Hot Tip at under 30% is the pick if it is on the bank. Zac Juelich, ranked fourth, has the same problem with the same machine.
What he has won
- September Super Series #1 at LITT, 65 players, September 2024
- Hammond's 40th Birthday Bounty, 50 players, June 2024
- Broken Clock 3-Strike, November, 49 players, November 2024
- Broken Clock 3-Strike, June, 48 players, June 2025
- MARCISISISISIS' B-Day Bash at NPC, 34 players, November 2025
Twenty-one outright wins plus five shared firsts from 193 events, with 68 podiums. Four wins in 48-plus fields inside eighteen months is the part that matters; those are the results that build a 156-point season.
His 2026 win came at the Stern Army finals at Stray Dog in June out of eight, after finishing third in the 21-player qualifying.
Current shape
Form is flat: 63% against a 64% baseline. September brought a 17th of 20 at the Super Ball XL finals, which is his only tracked result since late June.
Scouting him
Hot Tip is the clearest pick, Monte Carlo and Bounty Hunter behind it. Keep him off Godzilla and Swords of Fury.
The wider point about scouting Hammond: with 185 machines on file, the scouting report will almost always have something on him whatever venue you are at, which is more than can be said for most of the players ranked above him. The rest of the 2026 top 25 is here.