Daniel "KidPoker" Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu is one of the most recognised poker players of all time. Learn how he came to be a poker legend right here.

Biography

Daniel Negreanu is, without a doubt, one of the most recognised players of modern day poker. His huge personality and love for the game have taken him to top of the popularity scale in the eyes of poker fans and professional players.

He was born in Toronto, Canada on July 26th 1974, and started learning poker when he was 15 years old. Negreanu often speaks fondly of the old style of poker grinding, no online, just pure live poker at his local casino. He would grind there like a 9-5 job, and he put less emphasis on how much he was up or down, and more emphasis on improving his game in the long run. This obviously worked out well for him, as he is widely regarded as one of the best poker players ever, with lifetime tournament cashes of around $18m.

He is a regular on most televised poker tournaments or cash games, such as High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark, and the EPT.

Daniel Negreanu won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championships. Global Poker Index (GPI) has recognized Negreanu as one of the best players of the past decade.

Negreanu was also named WSOP Player of the Year for the year of 2004 and 2013. In 2014 he was also added in the Poker Hall of Fame with other well known Poker Legends like Doyle Brunson, Stu Ungar, Johnny Chan and others.

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Daniel Negreanu 2018 WSOP VLOG: Day 35 - Main Event Commentary

It was commentary box time today for Daniel as he jumps into the ESPN booth with regular commentators Norm and Lon as they watch t...

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Daniel Negreanu 2018 WSOP VLOG: Day 34 - Main Event Madness

It's 2018 Main Event time! As expected as a popular Pokerstars Team Pro player, Daniel Negreanu spends most of Day 1 on the featur...

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Daniel Negreanu 2018 WSOP VLOG: Day 33 - Main Event Preparation!

Gym time, media work and puppies are the plan for Daniel Negreanu as he gets ready to play the big one - the 2018 World Series of ...

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Daniel Negreanu 2018 WSOP VLOG: Day 32 - $10k Stud8 Bubble Time!

Daniel Negreanu takes some time to discuss this year's nominations for the Poker Hall of Fame, giving us his thoughts before tryin...

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Daniel Negreanu 2018 WSOP VLOG: Day 31 - $10k Stud 8

The $10,000 Stud 8 Championship is one of Daniel Negreanu's favourite events, as he looks to build up a stack in Day 1 before taki...

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Daniel Negreanu 2018 WSOP VLOG: Day 30 - Cheerleaders!

A lot of people enjoy cheerleaders, and Daniel Negreanu is no exception as he makes the most of the morning before heading back to...

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Daniel Negreanu 2018 WSOP VLOG: Day 29 - $10k PLO8

Fresh off his final table appearance in the $1,500 PLO8, Daniel Negreanu now takes on the $10,000 Championship version of the same...

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Daniel Negreanu 2018 WSOP VLOG: Day 28 - PLO8 Final Table

It's World Series of Poker Final Table time for Daniel Negreanu as he begins Day 3 of the $1,500 PLO8 as a short stack, but h...

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Daniel Negreanu 2018 WSOP VLOG: Day 27 - We're in the Money!

Daniel Negreanu is hoping this is the start of him turning his 2018 World Series of Poker around as he makes the money of the $1,5...

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Daniel Negreanu 2018 WSOP VLOG: Day 26 - Honouring Maria Ho

Daniel Negreanu has the honour of speaking for close friend Maria Ho at her induction to the inaugral Women in Poker Hall of ...

Chris Ferguson’s Apology Just Makes Things Worse

Chris “Jesus” Ferguson came forward to “apologise” for his involvement in Full Tilt’s Black Friday collapse, and the millions of dollars poker players lost or had frozen in its wake.

Live Poker Events, 6 years ago

Christopher Kruk wins PCA 25K High Roller for $836,350

Christopher Kruk overcame Jonathan Jaffe in heads-up play to take down a field of 144 entries and pocket $836,350 for his efforts.

Cleaning out the Tankers

The ‘Will Kassouf story’ on ESPN has raised the debate once again - what’s an acceptable length of time to make your decision and play?

Coaching The Billionaires!

​The upcoming €1million buy-in MonteCarlo One Drop event may have seen the professionals being barred from playing, but that hasn’t stopped them from getting in on the action.

Live Poker Events, 9 years ago

Colman Defeats Negreanu to Claim the Big One Platinum Bracelet

The Big One for One Drop tournament reached its big finale tonight. Nine players of original 42 took their seats to try and best each other chasing the custom-made platinum bracelet as well as the

Connor Drinan Hospitalised After Arm Wrestling Accident

Drinan doesn’t say who was on the other end of the evidently competitive arm-wrestling competition.

D-Negs WSOP Vlog: Smack Talking Hellmuth, Matusow’s Crazy Stories and Getting Shut Down By Ivey

The real highlight is the contribution of the elusive and camera shy Phil Ivey who Daniel tries to draw out on the subject of a slightly odd PLO hand.

DNegs Attacks The Irish Duo Behind Award-Winning Podcast

Daniel Negreanu finally lost the plot in a long-running feud

Live Poker Events, 6 years ago

Dan Smith Wins WPT Five Diamond WPC $100k Super High Roller For $1,404,000

It took a concerted effort by a Dan Smith and Daniel Negreanu tag-team to deny another German super high-roller victory.

Daniel Negreanu - The Story Of Canada’s KidPoker

He is perhaps the best-known poker player in the world – even in the history of the game – with $millions to his name and a social media following that includes trolls by the dozen