The most famous and successful poker player, Daniel Negreanu, prophesied the fate of a professional snooker. He spent most of his time in the billiard room of the city of Toronto, where, constantly in the atmosphere of gambling, including poker, he decided to try his luck. This circumstance became decisive in his future life. Success and skill immediately manifested themselves in the youth. Toronto's gaming halls soon became cramped with 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 friendliness of the player. His success is associated not only with professional abilities, but also with his amazing sociability. He had long been known as a wonderful storyteller. Daniel can capture in an exciting and colorful way any, even completely unremarkable, event that happened at the poker table. But these are his character traits, and legends just go about his poker abilities, he can read his opponents so well that sometimes he seems to see the cards through and through.
Negreanu Biography
Daniel Negreanu, 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 immigrants who, eight years before his birth, moved from Romania to Canada for permanent residence. About mother Annie and father Konstantin there is practically no data. Only one thing is known that they prophesied to his son a professional career as a player in billiards.
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, switched to the professional level of playing poker, and began to regularly attend poker tournaments. In his city, he meets Evelyn Ng, a professional poker player at that time, adopting strategies and gaining invaluable experience.
The tragic events of 1996 prompted the young man to think about his future and take everything into his own hands. His father is dying this year, 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.
The first major tournament
After analyzing his capabilities and participating in several tournaments organized by the owners of the largest Las Vegas casinos, having gained experience, Daniel realized that he was ready for something more. Professional masters could envy his abilities. Having gained even more experience and knowledge, in 1997 he participated in a competition called World Poker Finals, held in Foxwood. He did not win a big monetary gain, but he received the calling of the best player in this tournament.
The youngest player
After another year, Negreanu is participating in a more serious tournament called World Seriesof Poker. Daniel Negreanu wins the tournament again, but is already leaving with a significant win of $ 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 one in 2003, a year later he was awarded the third and already in 2008 received the fourth honorary golden bracelet.
It was such a significant victory that until 2005 its achievement could not be surpassed. Following the rain came victories in serious competitions with significant monetary wins. So, at a major Borgata Poker Open competition, a poker player won $ 1,117,400, and at Five Diamond World Poker Classic he already won $ 1,770,218.
Daniel Negreanu also takes an active part in less prestigious competitions of the WPT series, in which he is not so lucky, but nevertheless he always remains in the list of tournament leaders. Daniel also plays in Circuit tournaments, in a series of games he receives a prize already in the amount of $ 755 525
Honored Award
2005 was the most significant year for the player, because this year poker awards are being awarded, and Daniel receives the title of Poker Ambassador. This kind of award ceremony takes place for the first time at Wynn Las Vegas. And the very next year he will be awarded and given the title Favorite Poker Player. Receiving such prestigious awards did not pass without a trace, it was learned not only by people closely associated with poker. At this time, world fame came to him.
A video game is written for him, 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 book writer Doyle Brunson, when he decides to write a sequel to his bestselling book The Super System II, invites Negreanu to become a co-author. Most experts claim that the book that Doyle co-authored with Daniel is still the best in the world.
Anyone can play poker with the famous Internet player in the game "Poker Stars".
During the game of poker, he achieved significant success and was able to increase his capital by $ 10,000,000. He is second only to Jamie Gold in the amount of winnings all over the world, who received $ 12,000,000 in prize money 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 is involved in writing books, sometimes not only as a co-author. O wrote a book about poker on his own called “Hold'em Wisdom for All Players”. After some time, his next book about poker “Effective Hold'em Strategy” was released to help in understanding the basics and secrets of this kind of poker.
The player is removed in programs and films. Most famous for his roles in the film 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 participated in the World Golf Series. And since 2000, he decided to become a vegetarian. However, I thought that this would not be enough, and since 2006 he is a vegan.
In poker circles, Daniel Negreanu is better known as Kid Poker.