Daniel Negreanu Bio
Just Who is Daniel Negreanu?
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Residence: Las Vegas
Birth date: July 26, 1974 Career Highlights: Four WSOP bracelets -1998 Pot-Limit Hold’em -2003 SHOE -2004 Limit Hold’em -2008 Limit Hold’em -Most televised poker player of all-time -Created the PokerStars.net Big Game -Second on all-time money list with over $12,500,000 in live earnings Affiliated Room: PokerStars |
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Daniel Negreanu is one of the most recognizable poker players in the world. This is largely in part due to his presence on television where he is a staple on programs such as High Stakes Poker, Poker after Dark, The Big Game, and WSOP broadcasts. But things were not always so peachy for the player known as “kidpoker” to the poker world. The son of Romanian immigrants, Negreanu was born in Toronto in 1974, became a pool hustler by his 16th birthday, and soon figured gambling was in his blood.
Shortly after his 22nd birthday Negreanu moved to Las Vegas and began playing cards full time. Unfortunately for Negreanu, he busted his bankroll and headed home to Toronto. This down period would be short lived as Negreanu was back in Vegas a few years later winning his 1st WSOP bracelet for $169,460 in the $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em Championship. He continued to build off this success and quickly became one of the best poker players in the world.
Negreanu has also become a likeable figure in the poker community due to his personality and hand-reading abilities. Negreanu has seen some rough times at the tables but always comes away smiling and is a great example of how to conduct yourself at the poker table. His banter is always good-natured and he is never short on table talk. With four World Series of Poker bracelets, two wins in WPT events, and over $12,000,000 in tournament earnings Negreanu has certainly backed up all of that talk with big time results.
Even with those great finishes in live tournaments, Negreanu is best known for his time spent on televised cash games. What started first with a few appearances in High Stakes Poker on the Game Show Network has ballooned into what seems to be a weekly schedule spanning all sorts of poker shows. Negreanu has also participated in Poker after Dark, both the $20,000 winner-take-all SNGs as well as the $100,000 cash games against the likes of Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, and Patrik Antonius. In June 2010 Negreanu launched his own televised cash game, the “PokerStars.net Big Game” which features five professionals alongside an amateur over the course of a week. The amateur is staked $100,000 by Negreanu and PokerStars and he/she gets to keep any winnings they make through out the week.
Negreanu has also been involved in a few other projects including an online poker site, Full Contact Poker, as well as multiple books including “Power Hold’em Strategy” and even wrote the Triple Draw section in Doyle Brunson’s “Super System II”. He is also a major contributor of CardPlayer Magazine as well as a lead instructor for PokerVT. Still, all of these accomplishments are dwarfed by his relationship as the overwhelming face of the world’s largest poker site, PokerStars.
Negreanu has long been a PokerStars sponsored professional and even has his own special tables in the Lobby called “Daniel's Room” which can be found at $20/$40, $50/$100, and $100/$200 No-Limit Hold’em. He can be found playing these games as well as $400/$800 8-game which is a mixed-game format. Negreanu has helped bridge the gap between PokerStars and the online community, routinely fielding questions/concerns and making sure the online poker player has a voice with the world’s biggest poker site. The poker world is certainly lucky to have someone like Negreanu as the face of the game.
