Daniel Negreanu is a professional poker player: biography, interesting facts

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The most famous and successful poker player, Daniel Negreanu, was destined for professional snooker. He spent most of his time in the billiard rooms of the city of Toronto, where, being constantly in the atmosphere of gambling, including poker, he decided to try his luck. This circumstance became decisive in his later life. Success and skill immediately manifested themselves in the young man. Soon the gambling halls of Toronto became too small for him, and he moved to Las Vegas.

The most famous player in the world

Today, Daniel Negreanu is the most famous and recognizable poker player. He has a large number of admirers, the number of which is constantly growing due to the openness and goodwill of the player. His success is connected not only with professional abilities, but also with his amazing sociability. He has long been known as a wonderful storyteller. Daniel can describe any, even absolutely unremarkable, event that happened at the poker table in an exciting and colorful way. But these are his character traits, and his ability to play poker is simply legendary, he can read his opponents so well that sometimes it seems that he sees through the cards.

Biography of Negreanu

DanielNegreanu, whose biography does not differ from millions of others, lived in a simple and well-to-do family. The future millionaire was born in one of the Canadian states, in the city of Toronto, in 1974, on July 29. His parents were emigrants who had moved from Romania to Canada for permanent residence eight years before he was born. There is practically no information about Annie's mother and Konstantin's father. Only one thing is known, that they prophesied for their son a professional career as a billiard player.

Playing billiards, he was constantly close to poker players, and by the age of 15 he had already learned to play it perfectly. The game immediately completely absorbed Daniel, he even sacrificed his studies and, without graduating from high school, moved to the professional level of playing poker, and began to regularly attend poker tournaments. In his city, he meets the then-professional poker player Evelyn Ng, adopts strategies and gains invaluable experience.

The tragic events of 1996 prompted the young man to think about his future and take matters into his own hands. This year his father dies, and Daniel Negreanu decides to move to Las Vegas. He went to the "sunny city" to fulfill his cherished dream - to become the best and most famous player in the world.

First serious tournament

After analyzing his capabilities and participating in several tournaments organized by the owners of the largest casinos in Las Vegas, gaining experience, Daniel realized that he was ready for something more. His abilities could be envied by professionalmasters. Having gained even more experience and knowledge, in 1997 he participates in a competition called the World Poker Finals, held in Foxwood. He did not win a big cash prize, but he was called the best player in this tournament.

The youngest player

After another year, Negreanu participates in a more serious tournament called the World Series of Poker. Daniel Negreanu wins this tournament again but walks away with a massive $169,460. But the most important thing for Daniel is the title of the youngest player to win a WSOP gold bracelet. But he did not stop there and began to collect gold bracelets. He received the second in 2003, a year later he was awarded the third and already in 2008 he received the fourth honorary gold bracelet.

This was such a significant victory that until 2005 his achievement could not be surpassed. Following like rain, victories in serious competitions with significant cash prizes rained down. Thus, a poker player won $1,117,400 at the Borgata Poker Open, and $1,770,218 at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic.

Accepts Daniel Negreanu and actively participates in the less prestigious WPT series events in which he is not so lucky, but still he always remains in the tournament leaderboards. Daniel also plays in Circuit tournaments, in a series of games he already receives a prize of $755,525

Deserved award

2005 was the most significant year for the player,because this year's poker player awards are taking place and Daniel is being named a Poker Ambassador. This kind of awarding is happening for the first time at Wynn Las Vegas. And the very next year he was awarded and given the title of Favorite Poker Player. Receiving such prestigious awards did not go unnoticed, and not only people closely associated with poker learned about it. At this time, world fame comes to him.

A video game is written for it, the main character of which is a poker player, as evidenced by the name of the video game "Stack with Daniel Negreanu". The famous poker writer Doyle Brunson, when he decides to write a sequel to his best-selling book The Super System II, invites Negreanu to become a co-author. Most experts say that the book that Doyle co-wrote with Daniel is still the best in the world to this day.

Anyone can play poker with a famous player on the Internet at PokerStars.

During his time playing poker, he achieved significant success and was able to increase his capital by $10,000,000. In terms of worldwide winnings, he is second only to Jamie Gold, who was awarded $12,000,000 as a prize for winning the 2006 WSOP Main Event.

Interesting facts about Daniel Negreanu

Daniel is considered a versatile person, he has a lot of different hobbies. He participates in writing books, sometimes not only as a co-author. O wrote a book about poker on his own called The Wisdom of Hold'em.for all players” (Hold’em Wisdom for All Players). Some time later, his next poker book "Effective Hold'em Strategy" is published, designed to help in understanding the basics and secrets of this kind of poker.

The player acts in programs and films. He is best known for his role in X-Men. Start. Wolverine", as well as in the movie "Lucky". He can be seen in the video for the song Waking Up In Vegas by Katy Perry.

Daniel also competed in the World Series of Golf. And since 2000, he decided to become a vegetarian. However, he thought that this would not be enough, and since 2006 he has been a vegan.

Daniel Negreanu is better known in poker circles as Kid Poker.