Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian poker player and GGPoker Ambassador. A seven-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion, Negreanu last won a WSOP bracelet in 2024 in the prestigious $50,000 Poker Players Championship.

Before then, his last bracelet came in the WSOP Asia-Pacific Main Event back 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 over $52 million in lifetime earnings.

Daniel Negreanu Background

Negreanu's parents emigrated from Romania seven years before he was born. Negreanu was born in Toronto in 1974 and 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.

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Daniel Negreanu Poker History

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.

Negreanu's frustrations continued with a first-round elimination in the first season of Game of Gold in November 2023.

However, 2024 began with a bang. After pledging that "change was coming" after losing $2 million in 2023, he opened the year with PokerGo Tour victories in January and March to get back to winning ways.

And finally, in the 2024 Poker Players Championship, he tasted bracelet success yet again to clinch his seventh WSOP bracelet.

Is Daniel Negreanu Good at Poker?

Daniel Negreanu is widely regarded as one of the greatest poker players of all time. He has achieved remarkable success in both live and online tournaments, accumulating well over $50 million in career earnings. Negreanu's skill lies not only in his live reading ability, and ability to make strategic decisions but also in his adaptability and charisma at the table.

He has won multiple World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and is known for his deep understanding of the game, which he often shares through instructional videos and books.

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Daniel Negreanu's Wife Amanda Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu married Amanda Leatherman in May 2019. They previously dated back in 2010, but rekindled their relationship in 2018 before getting engaged on New Year's Eve 2018. Their wedding took place at Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, California with plenty of famous poker players in attendance including Phil Hellmuth and Negreanu's groosmen Christian Sanchez, Eddy Sabat, and Eric Wasserson.

Does Daniel Negreanu Have Children?

As of 2024, Daniel Negreanu does not have any children. In 2022, Negreanu had to contend with bogus claims that he used to live in Havasu Lake and abandoned a secret family to move to Las Vegas.

However, he does own two dogs called Rocky & Apollo.

Daniel Negreanu Controversies

As a vocal member of the poker community, Negreanu has been involved in several controversies.

In 2019, he smashed his vlogging camera after being eliminated from the $250,000 Super High Roller. This violent outburst came almost two years after he was banned from Twitch following a similar blowup after he lost connection during an online event.

Negreanu has also been involved in several feuds with other poker players including Shaun Deeb, Doug Polk, Justin Bonomo and Matt Berkey.

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