Daniel Negreanu ~ Poker Legend

Born in 1974, Canadian Denial Negreanu is a young but highly successfully, Las Vegas based, poker player. In 1998, at 23, Negreanu rose to fame when he became the youngest world championship event winner in history and continued this success by becoming the US Poker Champion in 1999. One of the most highly skilled players on the world poker scene, he has racked up a staggering 36+ world wide poker victories in the last eight years.

Negreanu is often considered one of the more recognisable players around a lot of which is due to his TV appearances and poker game commentary which can often be seen (an heard) on the WPT televised events. An when he’s not caught up on the final table of a tournament or appearing at the WPT events, Negreanu writes a regular column for Card Player Magazine, with over 100 articles to his name.

You’d think that with such a lot on his plate, Negreanu would be trying to take it easy with the rest of his time but not so – he is set to appear in the 2006 poker movie ‘Lucky You’ and also has an Xbox game out – Stacked with Daniel Negreanu – clearly not just a shrewd poker player, Negreanu is also a shrewd business man!
Daniel exudes the confidence and professionalism of a new poker generation, raised on MTV, the internet and game consoles. He is renowned for his fresh candid approach to life, and his cool style embodies poker’s evolution from smoky back room poker dens to a world class sports enterprise.