Daniel Negreanu may be easily considered as one of the best top poker players. Young, talented and friendly – at the table or away from it – it is easy to see that he is very experienced and confident, and this explains Daniel Negraneu numerous victories in poker tournaments. This is not surprising that PokerStars.com has chosen Daniel Negranu as a representative of their elite sponsored tournaments due to his reputation and success.
He began his career as a snooker player. As he learned to play poker at the age of 15, this game was still just a pleasant hobby for him untill Daniel is moved to Las Vegas where he currently resides. The first game did not bring him the success that it became a stimulus for further improvement. Daniel’s path to the professional poker players elite membership took him ten years and then he became one of the most impressive gamblers in the history of poker. Daniel was only 23 when he won his first bracelet in World Series. Today he is a winner of four World Series bracelets, a two-time winner of the World Poker Tour, a member of the elite team of PokerStars website, a player of the year according to the «Card Player» magazine and the WSOP in 2004.
In 2004, the WPT offered huge prize pools, and Negreanu did not miss his chance. Borgata Poker Open Tournament winning brought him more than a million dollars and another $1,770,218 he received as a result of winning the Five Diamond World Poker Classic. Participation in the WPT final table brought him another $1,442,013. A similar rate to 2009 brought Daniel glory of the most successful player in the history of poker.
In December 2005, Daniel opened his own online poker room, and in 2006 he announced a competition, which goal was the selection of students, from which he planned to bring the world-class players. Additionally, Daniel promised to pay the winner with his participation in four tournaments with buy-ins of $10,000.
In addition, Daniel has written over one hundred articles for the «Card Player» magazine, commented poker tournaments on television, participated in the re-release of “Super System” by Doyle Brunson. The amount of the tournament money prize of Daniel by the end of 2010 amounted to more than $13 million and now he is the second figure after Phil Ivey.
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