Focus on: Daniel Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu is a poker player born in Canada in 1974, of Romanian origins, which has a total of four bracelets at the World Series and two titles at the World Poker Tour. As far as career earnings go, he places on the second place right now and he is the main star of the Million Dollar Challenge poker show. He is also one of the more important players in the Big Game, from PokerStars.net.

He is known as a very good player both in cash games and in live tournaments. He took place ina lot of final tables at the WPT and WSOP, plus many other titles at different tournaments. His best year so far seems to be 2004, when he was the Card Player of the Year, as well as Player of the Year at WSOP. In 2004-2005 he was also the Player of the Year at WPT.

He is known as a poker player that is very good at reading other players and he says that for a poker player it’s very important to be able to see what kind of hands are played by opponents and how good they are at playing them.

His first tournament wins were in 1997, when he managed to win a total of three tournaments, two of which were at events from the World Poker Finals, taking home $55,064.

After the latest count, Negreanu had winnings at live tournaments which were over $14.1 million. Out of those, $3,515,597 came from winnings from the 48 times he cashed in at World Series events. For a while, he was the leader in all time tournament money winnings but Erik Seidel surpassed him quickly.

The first finish in the money at the World Series was in 1998, when he also won his first bracelet, by winning a Pot Limit Hold’em table.

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