Daniel Negreanu
Nickname: Kid PokerDate of Birth: 7/26/74
Birthplace: Toronto, Canada
Now Resides: Las Vegas, Nevada
Started playing poker: At the age of 15
Favorite poker game: Pot Limit Hold'em
Daniel Negreanu is unquestionably the hottest poker player today.
He was Card Player magazine's "Player of the Year" in 2004. He also won the Bellagio's Five Diamond World Poker Classic on the World Poker Tour and pocketed $1,770,000 in prize money. Then he grabbed his third gold bracelet at the 2004 World Series of Poker (Limit Hold'em).
Negreanu was born in 1974 to Romanian parents in Toronto, Canada. He quit high school to play poker full time and beat most of the home games. Negreanu decided to Las Vegas to come to play poker full-time but failed the first time he tried to beat the middle-limit games on The Strip. He returned home to Canada determined to learned the game more and succeed. You can say his determination payed off.
Major Poker Accomplishments:
- 1997: Best All Around Player, World Poker Finals.
- 1998: WSOP Pot Limit Hold'em at age 23. First WSOP event ever played.
- 1999: United States Poker Champion.
- 1997-1999: 12 major tournament wins, more than any other player.
- 2000: Played exclusively live action in Las Vegas at the Bellagio.
- 2001: 11th in the main event at the WSOP.
- 2001: Legends of Poker 7-card stud, 1st
- 2002: Best All around Player at the L.A.P.C.
- 2002: Legends of Poker
- 2002 Event # 5 7- Card Stud, 1st
- 2002: Legends of Poker
- 2002 Event # Omaha Hi/Lo, 1st
- 2002: Legends of Poker
- 2002 Event # Omaha Hi/Lo split, 2nd
- 2002: Legends of Poker
- 2002 Event # No Limit Holdem, 1st
- 2002: Hall of Fame Poker Classic, Limit Holdem, 1st
- 2002: Four Queens Poker Classic, Limit Holdem, 2nd
- 2002: World Series of Poker, Limit Hold 'em Shootout, 6th
- 2003: World Series of Poker, S.H.O.E, 1st
- 2004: Orleans Open, No-Limit Hold'em Championship, 6th
- 2004: Championship Poker at the Plaza, No-Limit Hold'em, 1st
- 2004: Party Poker Million III, Limit Hold'em Championship Final Day, 2nd
- 2004: Caribbean Adventure, No-Limit Hold'em, 3rd
- 2004: Five Diamond World Poker Classic, 1st
WSOP 2004
- Event #2, $2,000 No-Limit Hold 'Em, 43rd, $4,440
- Event #7, $1,000 No-Limit Hold 'Em w/ Rebuys, 3rd, $100,940
- Event #11, $2,500 Limit Hold 'Em, 7th, $21,800
- Event #15, $2,000 Limit Hold 'Em, 1st, $169,100
- Event #18, $1,500 No-Limit Hold 'Em, 9th, $5,000
- Event #31, $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys, 8th, $45,000
