Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian professional poker player of Romanian descent with four World Series of Poker bracelets
and two World Poker
Tour Championship titles and was also winner of Cardplayer's Player of the
Year award for 2004. He is ranked second
in the all-time career earnings list behind Phil Ivey and is also currently the star of poker
game show Million Dollar
Challenge.
In 1997, he won two events at the World Poker Finals at Foxwoods,
earning $55,064 as well as being named the tournament's best all-around player.
Negreanu followed this triumph by winning $169,460 at the $2,000 Pot Limit
Hold'em event in the 1998 World Series of Poker and
becoming the youngest WSOP bracelet winner in history — a record he
held until 2004. Over the next few
years, he became one of the most successful poker tournament players, winning
two World Poker Tour
(WPT) events, another three World Series bracelets, and appearing at 12
final tables. He was also named the World Series of Poker player of the year in
2004 and World Poker Tour player of the year in 2005.
Upon opening, the Wynn
Las Vegas resort recruited him as their "Poker Ambassador" to play for any
stake in their poker room. The arrangement lasted until October 2005, when he
opted out because it was restricting his ability to play for high stakes outside
the Wynn. In December 2005, he started his own online poker cardroom "skin" site on his official
site, Full Contact Poker, which also includes his blog and a variety of poker
forums. He played at his cardroom under the screen name "KidPoker". In 2006, he
used Full Contact Poker to launch a competition to select a protege, whom Daniel would attempt to
mold into a world-class live tournament poker player. In addition, he agreed to
pay the protege's entry fee into four $10,000 buy-in events. Daniel's first
protege was Brian
Fidler. In 2007, Daniel ran a second protege promotion, which was won by
Anthony Mak.
In June 2007 Negreanu signed with PokerStars, joining Chris
Moneymaker, Joe Hachem, Greg Raymer and many other professional poker
players as a member of Team PokerStars. His Full Contact
Poker site has since returned to being a forum and informational site. Daniel
has been a regular at the big game in Bobby's Room, in the Bellagio casino, Las Vegas, for
several years. He is a self-admitted action junkie who always seeks new
challenges and sets high goals for himself, not only at the poker table but also
on the golf course. Unlike many other players, he is very outspoken about his
poker results and regularly posts updates in the forums at the Full Contact
Poker website. Some of Negreanu’s success is attributed to his ability to read opponents. When
asked about this, Negreanu explained that the most important skill he employs is
observing what hands his opponents play and how capable they are of playing
them.
As of May 2010, his total live tournament winnings are recorded at
$12,583,677, second on the all
time money list. His 43 cashes at the WSOP account for $3,309,349 of those
winnings. He is also the
leading money winner on the WPT circuit. As of November 2010 Daniel's total Winnings are now$13,020,581
Daniel Negreanu Poker Card Cover
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Poker card covers are fast becoming the next hot collectible, since playing poker, namely Texas Hold'Em Poker, is the fastest growing past time in America today. And poker professionals love them!
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