Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian poker player and GGPoker Ambassador. A six-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion, he won♠ the WSOP Asia-Pacific Main Event in 2013.
Negreanu can be seen on the first season of GGPoker's Game of Gold, a♠ poker reality competition on the GGPoker YouTube channel.
He was named WSOP Player of the Year in 2004 and 2013 —♠ the only player to achieve the feat twice.
He has also won two World Poker Tour (WPT) titles and amassed overR$46♠ million in lifetime earnings.
Background
The native of Toronto, Canada, Negreanu got his start in gambling as a young teenager hanging out♠ in pool halls, hustling, betting on sports, and also playing cards. With the encouragement of his parents to always chase♠ his dreams, Daniel decided school just wasn’t in the cards for him. He left high school just one credit short♠ of graduation to focus on poker.
In 1998, at the age of 23, Negreanu entered his first World Series of Poker♠ and became the youngest WSOP champion ever after winning theR$2,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em Event. Negreanu kept the title of youngest champion♠ until 2004.
In 1999 Negreanu won theR$7,500 Texas Hold'em Championship Event at the United States Poker Championship in Atlantic City forR$210,000
He♠ was named the player of the year at the 2004 WSOP after he took home another bracelet and netted multiple♠ other cashes.
Negreanu also picked up his two World Poker Tour titles in 2004, winning the Borgata Poker OpenR$10,000 No Limit♠ Hold'em Final Day event in September taking home more thanR$1.1 million and just three months later he took down the♠ Five-Diamond World Poker ClassicR$15,000 Championship event in Las Vegas for overR$1.7 million. Earlier that very same year Negreanu had another♠ big payday when he finished in the runner-up position at the PartyPoker Million III Limit Hold'em Cruise,R$7,000 Limit-Hold'em Championship Final♠ Day event collecting almostR$700,000.
In 2008 Negreanu added a fourth WSOP bracelet to his collection, before adding two in 2013 in♠ spectacular fashion. He first won the 2013 WSOP APAC Main Event for over A$1 million and followed that up later♠ the same year with victory in the WSOP Europe €25,600 High Roller for his sixth bracelet.
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Two years later, Negreanu narrowly missed out on making the WSOP Main Event final table, finishing♠ 11th.
A former PokerStars Ambassador, Negreanu was a regular at poker tournaments around the world during the late 2010s.
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He left PokerStars in 2024, before joining GGPoker later that year.
2024 was a rollercoaster year for♠ Negreanu, having married Amanda Leatherman earlier that year and almost winning a third WSOP Player of the Year title.
The simmering♠ feud between Negreanu and Doug Polk came to a head in 2024 in the shape of a heads-up grudge match.♠ Polk eventually came out on top after 25,000 hands, with Polk winningR$1.2 million in the process.
In 2024, Negreanu narrowly missed♠ out on a seventh WSOP bracelet, with two third-place finishes and seven top-10 finishes in total. He suffered disappointment the♠ following year, as he was unable to make a final table in a live WSOP for the first time since♠ 2011, slumping to aR$1.1 million loss overall.
Negreanu's frustrations continued with a first-round elimination in the first season of Game of♠ Gold in November 2024.
Daniel Negreanu's WSOP Bracelets
Year Event Place Prize 1998R$2,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em 1stR$169,460 2003R$2,000 S.H.O.E. 1stR$100,440 2004R$2,000 Limit Hold'em♠ 1stR$169,100 2008R$ 2,000 Limit Hold'em 1stR$204,863 2013A A$10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event 1st A$1,038,825 2013E €25,600 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller♠ 1st €725,000
WSOP Player of the Year Winners
