Poker Daniel Negreanu 2018

Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian-born professional poker player. As one of the best professional poker players to burst onto the scene in recent decades, Daniel Negreanu has amassed a number of professional titles. These include six World Series of Poker bracelets, two World Poker Tour championship titles, and a range of other significant professional victories. According to the latest figures released in 2019, Negreanu is the third biggest live tournament poker player of all time. In all, he has amassed a total of $42m since turning pro, which makes him one of the most successful professional poker players ever.

The son of Romanian immigrants, Negreanu was born in Toronto, Canada, where he dreamed of hitting it big from a young age. Negreanu, who never finished high school, got into the local poker scene at a young age, honing his craft on the local circuit. After suffering some early career setbacks, Negreanu gradually built up his bankroll after losing most of it early on in his career. After gaining some momentum, he slowly worked his way into and all the way up the professional poker leagues.

Tournament Results of Daniel Negreanu. 2018 US Poker Open. Las Vegas, NV, United States. No Limit Hold'em - Main Event (Event #8) Feb 9 - 11, 2018 Aria Resort. Negreanu won his first major tournament at the 1997 World Poker Finals at Foxwoods at 23 years of age. Negreanu's poker achievements by age 24 earned him the nickname Kid Poker. At the 2004 World Series of Poker, Negreanu was named the Toyota Player of the Year after winning a bracelet and cashing in five events. Daniel Negreanu is one of the most accomplished poker players in history – with an enviable poker resume spanning decades. He plays all the games (not just Hold’em!) at the very top level and stakes, and has the results and work ethic to be regarded as one of the top poker minds and players on earth. Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu began feuding two years ago. But the vitriol between the poker pros enhanced in 2018 thanks to an insulting t-shirt, some social media mudslinging, and a memorable.

Despite these humble beginnings, Negreanu has gone on to become one of the most successful poker players of all time, both in terms of the number of professional wins he has earned and in terms of total career winnings.

What is Daniel Negreanu famous for?

Beyond his illustrious career highlights, Negreanu is known in the poker world for his uncanny ability to read his opponents mid-game. This has brought him a huge amount of success in terms of his major career wins, and has given him a kind of mystical quality in poker-playing circles. Negreanu has also had a number of high-profile media ventures, including being credited in a number of films and television shows.

Where is Daniel Negreanu from?

Born the son of Romanian immigrants in Canada, Negreanu spent his early years in and around Toronto, Ontario. Despite being a proud Canadian with a passionate love of NHL, Negreanu has spent the majority of his professional years living in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the US. He has since been awarded a Green Card.

Daniel Negreanu’s career highlights

As one of the most successful professional poker players of all time, Negreanu has a number of significant career highlights to his name. These include:
Named World Poker Tour Player of the Year in 2004–2005.
The first player to make a final table at World Series of Poker bracelet-awarding locations in Las Vegas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.

What is Daniel Negreanu’s net worth?

Although Negreanu’s total net worth is currently unknown, his total career winnings are estimated to be around the $42m mark. This includes earnings from career wins in both in-person and at online casinos.

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On his blog at fullcontactpoker.com,Daniel Negreanu shared some end-of-year accounting with the public along with his goals for the new year. It’s rare to get such an in-depth look at a top professional player’s results, but Negreanu freely shared detailed results from the last five years.

According to Negreanu, one reason for his sharing is to dispel one of the great myths in the poker world that high rollers who cash for large amounts of money like $2 million are big winners on the year, a point he hammered in via a Twitter poll.

In 2017 I cashed for $2,792,104. Do you think I spent more or less than that amount I cashed for?

— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker)

“I think my 2017 was a good illustration of the illusion that players cashing for $2 million in a single year is a great accomplishment. In the old days, before super high rollers, you could all but guarantee that cashing for $2 million would mean the player had a winning year. Well, the truth is, if a player plays the full high roller schedule and cashes for $2 million, they are all but certain to have had a losing year, and that’s before expenses.”

Last Five Years

For Negreanu, after posting $2,874,164 in buy-ins in 2017 and cashing for $2,792,104, he booked a loss of $86,140. He points out that considering his average buy-in on the year was $40,481 across 71 events, the loss is minimal and very close to break-even. That said, it technically represents the second year in a row that Negreanu’s tournament books ended in the red.

In 2016, Negreanu recorded a loss of $1,246,693 with an average buyin of $31,558 across 49 events. Fortunate for Negreanu, the three preceding years he booked nearly $10 million in tournament profits, including a very healthy +$7.1 million 2014 thanks in part to a second-place finish in the $1 million buy-in WSOP Big One for One Drop.

Negreanu also shared that unlike many of the high roller regulars, he uses his own money to buy in to poker tournaments that he decides to play. The exception this year will be the Big One for One Drop, for which he plans to sell around 50% of his action — with no markup.

Goal Review

Wsop Daniel Negreanu 2018

In his “2018 Annual Poker Goals Blog,” Negreanu reviewed his 2017 goals to see how he fared, providing the caveat, “The goals I set are lofty, so I’m really not attached to the results in terms of seeing the year as a success or failure, but I’m a big believer in setting hard to reach goals.”

He assessed his achievement of five of his eight goals for last year as “a good result and above expectation.” Those five goals were: cash for $2.5 million, cross the 100 cashes mark at the WSOP, end the year #1 on the all-time money list, win $250K playing cash games and produce more content for poker fans.