1. Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian professional poker player who has won seven World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour championship titles.
46 Facts About Daniel Negreanu
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Daniel Negreanu was named the WSOP Player of the Year in 2004 and 2013, making him the only player to receive the accolade more than once.
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Daniel Negreanu is the first player to make a final table at each of the three WSOP bracelet-awarding locations, and the first to win a bracelet at each.
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Daniel Negreanu was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1974, seven years after his parents, Annie and Constantin, emigrated from Romania.
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Daniel Negreanu has seven World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour championships.
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Daniel Negreanu has reached multiple WSOP and WPT final tables and won various other tournament titles.
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Daniel Negreanu was named the 2004 Card Player Player of the Year and the WSOP Player of the Year.
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In 2006, Daniel Negreanu was named "Favorite Poker Player" at Card Player Magazine's Player of the Year Awards Gala.
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In November 2014, Daniel Negreanu was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.
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Daniel Negreanu is a self-professed action junkie who claims to always seek new challenges and set high goals for himself.
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Some of Daniel Negreanu's success is attributed to his ability to read opponents.
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Daniel Negreanu has since captured another six bracelets, including the $50,000 Poker Players Championship in 2024.
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Daniel Negreanu has 36 career WSOP final table appearances, including two apiece at the WSOP Europe and at the WSOP Asia-Pacific, and 103 money finishes.
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In November 2008, Negreanu won the fourth-annual British Columbia Poker Championships main event, topping a field of 690 players, and earning $371,910 CAD.
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Daniel Negreanu won $1 million as the winner of the 2016 Shark Cage tournament organized by PokerStars.
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Daniel Negreanu played in two seasons of PokerStars Big Game.
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In December 2005, Daniel Negreanu became the professional spokesperson for an online poker site called Poker Mountain.
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Daniel Negreanu played at this cardroom under the screen name "KidPoker".
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Daniel Negreanu agreed to pay the protege's entry fee into four $10,000 buy-in events.
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In 2007, Daniel Negreanu ran a second protege promotion, which was won by Anthony Mak.
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In June 2007, Daniel Negreanu signed with PokerStars, joining Chris Moneymaker and many other professional poker players as a member of Team PokerStars.
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On May 23,2019, after nearly 12 years as a member of Team PokerStars, Daniel Negreanu announced he and PokerStars were parting ways.
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Daniel Negreanu is a brand ambassador and spokesperson for GGPoker since 2019.
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On July 29,2020, after a years-long feud with fellow poker pro Doug Polk, Daniel Negreanu publicly accepted a challenge to a high-stakes grudge match.
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In 2021, Daniel Negreanu challenged Phil Hellmuth to a heads-up match after Phil Hellmuth was critical of Daniel's plays in his heads-up match against Doug Polk.
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In 2023, it was announced that Daniel Negreanu would take on Eric Persson in High Stakes Duel 4 in May Daniel Negreanu defeated Persson in Round 1 to win the $100,000 prize pool.
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Daniel Negreanu defeated Polk and took home the championship belt and $200,000.
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In September 2021, Daniel Negreanu had some success in PokerGo's Poker Masters tournaments.
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Daniel Negreanu placed 3rd in Poker Masters 2, a $10,000 buy-in event, and won $103,200.
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Daniel Negreanu placed 1st in Poker Masters 5, another $10,000 buy-in event, winning $178,200.
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Daniel Negreanu has played poker on various TV shows such as Late Night Poker, Poker After Dark, and High Stakes Poker, as well as serving as a commentator and stand-in host on Ultimate Poker Challenge.
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Daniel Negreanu appeared in the third season of Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament.
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In January 2007, Daniel Negreanu appeared in the Fox Reality original series Rob and Amber: Against the Odds, in which he mentored reality television personality Rob Mariano in his bid to become a professional poker player.
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Negreanu is featured in the 2006 poker video game Stacked with Daniel Negreanu, providing tips and hints as to how to play effectively.
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Daniel Negreanu has written over 100 articles for CardPlayer Magazine and contributed to Doyle Brunson's revised book, Super System II.
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Daniel Negreanu has tutored on the web as part of Poker School Online and personally given lessons to celebrities such as Tobey Maguire and Shannon Elizabeth.
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Daniel Negreanu made a cameo appearance as a poker player playing against the mutant Gambit in the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
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Daniel Negreanu played a poker player in The Grand, and he appeared as himself in the film Lucky You.
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Daniel Negreanu appeared in Katy Perry's music video for "Waking Up in Vegas" as a poker player.
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Daniel Negreanu appeared in a TV series dedicated to poker called Tilt in 2005.
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Daniel Negreanu was a major advocate of the move to bring the National Hockey League to Las Vegas, along with Malaysian billionaire and fellow poker player Richard Yong.
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In September 2015, Daniel Negreanu posed for a PETA vegan campaign.
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In 2018, Daniel Negreanu was promoted and credited as an associate producer for a documentary about veganism in sports, The Game Changers.
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Daniel Negreanu has a blog at Full Contact Poker where he posts his thoughts and feelings about life, politics and poker.
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Daniel Negreanu became a vegetarian in 2000 and has been vegan since 2006, claiming it makes him a better player.
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On October 1,2020, Daniel Negreanu was one of 12 individuals named in a $330 million defamation lawsuit brought by poker professional Mike Postle.