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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.

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 over $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 the $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em Event. Negreanu kept the title of youngest champion until 2004.

In 1999 Negreanu won the $7,500 Texas Hold'em Championship Event at the United States Poker Championship in Atlantic City for $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 Open $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Final Day event in September taking home more than $1.1 million and just three months later he took down the Five-Diamond World Poker Classic $15,000 Championship event in Las Vegas for over $1.7 million. Earlier that very same year Negreanu had another big payday when he finished in the runner-up position at the PartyPoker.com Million III Limit Hold'em Cruise, $7,000 Limit-Hold'em Championship Final Day event collecting almost $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 2019, before joining GGPoker later that year.

2019 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 2020 in the shape of a heads-up grudge match. Polk eventually came out on top after 25,000 hands, with Polk winning $1.2 million in the process.

In 2021, 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 a $1.1 million loss overall.

Daniel Negreanu's WSOP Bracelets

WSOP Player of the Year Winners