Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian professional poker player. In 2004, he was selected as Cardplayer's Player of the Year, and he is ranked the second highest-earning poker pro of all time behind Phil Ivey.
Negreanu has become well-known to poker fans through his various television appearances. He played poker in the series Late Night Poker, Poker After Dark and Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament, hosted Ultimate Poker Challenge and appeared in the reality series Rob and Amber: Against the Odds. He also has his own video game, Stacked with Daniel Negreanu, in which he appears between games to give the player tips.
Association With PokerStars
Online poker site, PokerStars, sponsors a number of professional poker players, including Negreanu. Other members of "Team PokerStars" include Hevad Khan, Chad Brown, Gavin Griffin and Chris Moneymaker.
Negreanu will appear as one of the professional poker players on the Fox reality series PokerStars Big Game, along with Vanessa Rousso and others. The show features "Loose Cannon" players selected from online tournaments who will then compete against professional players.
In 2009, Negreanu posted a challenge for himself on the PokerStars blog. Starting with only a $10 stake, he claimed that he was attempting to earn $10,000. Among the "rules" Negreanu has set for his experiment are that he would only play with a buy-in of 1/5 his total bankroll and that he would only play in No-Limit Hold 'Em cash games.http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/players/daniel_negreanu/2009/daniel-negreaus-10-challenge-035708.html
Daniel Negreanu Reads Straight Flush
In this footage, while playing heads-up poker against Jerry Buss, Daniel Negreanu guesses that the turn and river card will give him a straight flush to win. He ends up calling both cards successfully - the Seven and Jack of Diamonds.
Daniel Negreanu's Top 5 Poker Tells
In poker, a "tell" is a tick, gesture or other bit of body language that communicates information about a player's cards to other players. In this video, shot for the CBC, Negreanu lists the most common tells to be on the look out at the poker table.
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Fast Facts
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Born
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Birth Place
Toronto, Canada
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Nick Name
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Twitter handle
RealKidPoker
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Awards
2004 Poker Player of the Year, four World Series of Poker bracelets and won the World Poker Tour twice
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Film appearances
Poker player in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Himself in Lucky You
