Poker news tagged with 'daniel negreanu'

He lost more than $2 million in 2023 poker tournaments!

Canadian professional poker player Daniel Negreanu has shared his 2024 commitment on his X/Twitter account regarding some adjustments that will be made to his poker tournament strategy after realizing he played too many tournaments and performed badly in most of them last year.

Read more » Daniel Negreanu shares his 2024 Commitment after Epiphany on Poker Tournaments

Who are the most famous poker players of all time? Discover the list of poker celebrities and much more information in this article.

Poker has remained one of the most popular games for years. The fact is that it requires having brilliant analytical and logical skills, as well as a bit of luck. Millions of people prefer playing this card game and even earn good money. So, who are the leading poker players you should know about? How much money do they earn? How did common people become celebrities in the field of poker? It's time to find all the truth about playing this card game and the possible incomes you can earn if you try it too. 

Read more » 5 Most Famous Poker Players Ever

Daniel Negreanu posted on his Twitter account telling his followers that his friend was robbed and he asked them to notify him should they spot stolen Aria chips with a "significant amount of $25kchips and $5k."

Read more » Daniel Negreanu's Friend Got Robbed of $25K Aria Chips in Casino

Canadian poker pro Daniel Negreanu has gotten his account banned from streaming on Twitch after he spurted out some profane expletives over the weekend.

The 6-time WSOP bracelet winner got his account suspended on Sunday (July 26), after an incident that happened on Friday - while streaming a WSOP event on WSOP.com, he fiercely responded via stream chat to someone who said a rude comment about his wife.

Read more » 2020 WSOP: Daniel Negreanu's Violent Meltdown gets him Banned from Twitch

Whether we classify the latest coronavirus as a pandemic, it still is a serious issue. Within just two months, the virus known as COVID-19 has spread across several continents. When something is described as pandemic, it means continuous transmission of the disease, all at the same time in multiple different geographical regions. Pandemic does not refer to a virus' deadly characteristic but rather its transmissibility and geographical reach.

Read more » What Poker Pros Make of the Coronavirus

A non-profit organization has made a terminally ill man's dream come true.

Zachary Butler, age 33 and lives in the town of Trezevant in Carroll County, Tennessee, is getting a super special meet-and-greet schedule with his favorite poker player of all time, Daniel Negreanu. The Dream Foundation, a non-profit organization that grants wishes of those with terminal illnesses, is sending not only him, but his entire family to Las Vegas. They were scheduled to visit Las Vegas on (January 28) Monday and come back home on Thursday.

Read more » Poker Fan with Terminal Illness Gets Dream Wish - Meet and Play Poker with Daniel Negreanu

New Year brings about new beginnings and a hopeful outlook in life for the future. For Daniel ‘KidPoker' Negreanu, he finally decided that the beginning of 2019 is the best time to start a wedded life for him with past girlfriend Amanda Leatherman.

Read more » Daniel Negreanu got engaged to Poker Host Amanda Leatherman

From December 17-19, 2018, the biggest week in the history of PokerGO continues with the Super High Roller Bowl V, a high-stakes tournament with a buy-in of $300,000.

Read more » Super High Roller Bowl V: Daniel Negreanu Shockingly Folds a Straight, but was Right in Doing So

Unfold Hold'em is the newest poker game released by PokerStars, allowing players to ante up for a side "Unfold pot" and then get back into the game right after seeing the flop. This poker variant is actually geared more towards the rec (recreational) players. As for the reg (regular) players, they find that it's not a good game at all and criticize PokerStars for continuing to release games that no longer involve one's skills in order to win.

Read more » "Don't play new games if you don't like them" - Daniel Negreanu on PokerStars New Poker Variant Unfold Hold'em

The poker player who has made himself super busy during the first half of the year 2018 and has been reaping a lot of cash prizes and recognition for all his hard work is none other than Justin Bonomo, and now the latest achievement that he can potentially put under his name could be that he'll win a summer tournament that is worth $10 million in cash prize.

Read more » 2018 WSOP: Event #78: The Big One for One Drop - Justin Bonomo Leads Final 6

The Women in Poker Hall of Fame (WiPHoF) celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.

Earlier in May, Lupe Soto and Maria Ho were the lucky ones to be chosen to become members of the 2018 Women in Poker Hall of Fame, making them the 20th and 21st inductees into the Hall.

Read more » Maria Ho inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame by Daniel Negreanu

On July 15, 2018, "the WSOP and One Drop announce the return of The BIG ONE for One Drop, a $1 million buy-in tournament capped at a maximum of 48 players and the most significant charity initiative in poker history.

Read more » WSOP 2018: Negreanu, Hellmuth, Ivey among contenders for $1 Million Buy-in WSOP Tournament ‘The Big One for One Drop'

Justin Bonomo came out on top in the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl $300,000 buy-in NLHE event, outlasting a tough field of 48 players to claim the championship ring and take home the humongous first place prize of $5,000,000.

Read more » Justin Bonomo wins 2018 Super High Roller Bowl for $5,000,000

Pokerstars' ambassador Daniel Negreanu shall be attending to help raise money for the Folded Flag Foundation, a non-profit organization geared towards helping families of fallen soldiers, as an emcee to their charity poker tournament scheduled on Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 1pm PT in Los Angeles.

Read more » Daniel Negreanu to Help Families of Fallen Military via Charity Poker Event

The US Poker Open is scheduled to start February 1 Thursday and ends on February 11 Sunday at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The player who manages to win the most money during the series shall be crowned the US Poker Open Champion and will also receive the US Poker Open Cup.

Read more » US Poker Open: Schedule + Daniel Negreanu's $50K Side Bet on Winning the Cup

The PokerStars Festival London continues, with the Main Event looming close and the High Roller playing down to a winner, who will also get to be crowned as the newest Platinum Pass winner.

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Many people who aren't too familiar with the ways of the poker world may believe that those poker pros who win at tournaments get to take all the millions of cash they won with them, but little do they know that there's a lot more being lost when it comes to huge buy-ins, re-buys and not to mention the scores of other little deals (i.e. sponsors) to settle after a tourney has been won.

Read more » Bryn Kenney Is The Biggest Live Tournament Winner of 2017

Event #9: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo or Better Championship drew 154 entries and it took four days of play to boil down the tallented field poker players to a winner. The tournament should have ended on Tuesday but time run out and a fourth day was added. On Wednesday, Abe Mosseri (USA) and Daniel Negreanu (Canada) were the only players returning to the final table, with Mosseri having a 2-1 chip lead.

Read more » 2017 WSOP: Abe Mosseri defeats Daniel Negreanu to win $10k Omaha Event!

Just like any other gambler, poker players need diversity and constant action. That said, playing for millions of dollars in poker cash games and in WSOP tournaments just isn't enough for some individuals looking for more thrill and excitement.

Read more » Negreanu agrees on prop bet to win three bracelets at WSOP 2017

Daniel Negreanu tragically lost his best friend 'Mushu' last Friday while playing Day 2 of the PokerStars Championship Bahamas $25,000 High Roller.

Negreanu, who is 1st on the All Time Money List with $32 million in tournament earnings, shared the sad news on Twitter and received a lot of answers from his followers and fellow pros who wished to express their condolences.

Read more » Daniel Negreanu Mourns The Tragic Death of His Best Friend of 17 Years

Poker professional Daniel Negreanu is not afraid to express his views over the GOP presidential candidate, Donald Trump. It wasn't long when the poker player became a United States citizen and is now eager to vote against Trump come election time.

Read more » Negreanu Offers $100,000 To Anyone Leaking Trump’s Apprentice Tapes

Daniel "KidPoker" Negreanu will be coaching billionare Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque Du Soleil and the One Drop Foundation, before and during the €1,000,000 buy-in Big One For One Drop Invitational event (no poker pros allowed to enter this time) on October 14th, 2016.

Read more » Daniel Negreanu To Coach Billionaire For €1M Big One For One Drop

Poker legends Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius, Doyle Brunson and Phil Ivey (left to right in picture) all headed to Bellagio last week for some high-stakes action. With ‘high-stakes action' we are not only referring to high stakes cash games but also proposition bets!

Read more » Familiar Faces At Bellagio's High-Stakes Tables

It was in June 15, 2016, Wednesday afternoon during the 2016 World Series of Poker (WSOP) that Daniel Negreanu had won the third cash of his summer. However, it was another non-poker-related news that day had really made Negreanu extremely ecstatic.

Read more » Negreanu Ecstatic Now That Las Vegas NHL Team Is Official

Several months after the trailer was released, ‘KidPoker' had its world premier yesterday at the Toronto International Film Festival! The long-awaited documentary, produced by PokerStars and directed by Francine Watson, about everyone's favorite poker player Daniel "KidPoker" Negreanu received some very positive feedback on, for example, Twitter right after the premier.

Read more » 'KidPoker' Premiered Last Night

On Wednesday, Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu answered fan questions on reddit.com (Ask Me Anything). Here are some of the highlights! Enjoy! 

AvoidMyRage: Let's say you would commit all your time, energy and money to making as much money as possible playing poker, what/where would you play and how much do you think could you average a year?

I would play in Macau and think I could average $7 million a year.

Read more » Daniel Negreanu Answers Fan Questions

Last week the final 10 candidates for the 2015 Poker Hall of Fame were revealed on WSOP's website, and it didn't take long before everyone's favourite poker player Daniel Negreanu (inducted last year) posted a blog where he talked about PHOF's main criteria* and other things related to the matter.

Read more » Daniel Negreanu Discusses Poker Hall Of Fame

The 5th edition of the WSOP National Championship found its winner on Friday at Harrah's Cherokee in Cherokee, N.C. Loni Hardwood, who began the final table with a big chip lead, earned her second WSOP gold bracelet and $341,599 for her victory.

Read more » WSOP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: Loni Hardwood Wins! Daniel Negreanu Out In 6th

Loni Hardwood will lead the final seven players into today's WSOP National Championship final table at Harrah's Cherokee in North Carolina. Hardwood, a U.S. pro with close to $1.3 million in live tournament earnings, accumulated 1,340,000 in chips on Day 2.

Read more » WSOP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: 7 Players Remain, Including Daniel Negreanu

The first day of the National Championship kicked off on Wednesday at Harrah's Cherokee in North Carolina. At the end of registration, 122 players had entered the tournament, including defending champion Dominik Nitsche, Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu, and 14-time WSOP winner Phil Hellmuth.

Read more » Negreanu Amongst 49 Players Through To Day 2 of WSOP National Championship

Unless you've been hiding under a rock lately, you probably know that Daniel Negreanu fell only two positions short of making the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table (November Nine).

Read more » Daniel Negreanu: "My goal was to win the tournament not make the final 9"

Hand #119:

Joe McKeehen raised to 800,000 on the button and Daniel Negreanu called. The flop came out A[d]K[c]10[d] and Negreanu checked. McKeehen bet 700,000 and Negreanu moved all in for 5.8 million. McKeehen, with over 50 million in chips, called.

Negreanu tabled A[s]4[d] (top pair) and McKeehen J[d]3[d] (straight and flush draw). The 3[h] on the turn gave McKeehen further outs. Negreanu now needed to dodge diamonds, Queens, Jacks, and threes in order to take home the pot and stay alive in the tournament. 

The dealer burned another card and dealt the river: Q[h], giving McKeehen a straight and the pot. Daniel Negreanu received $526,000 for his 11th place finish. Close, but no cigar. Negreanu will be missed by many of his fans on this year's final table.

Update: 

Daniel Negreanu thanks everyone for all the support

The 2015 November Nine is getting closer and closer as another day of play has come to an end. The final 27 players will be led into Day 7 by Thomas Kearney with 14,400,000 in chips. Kearney, who resides in Las Vegas, is closely followed by Mozheng Guan with 14,230,000.

Read more » 2015 WSOP Main Event: Day 6 Ends With 27 Survivors - Daniel Negreanu In 9th Place!

The 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event's Day 5 kicked off at noon on Sunday in the Amazon Room. 237 players took seat but only 69 remained after five two-hour levels of play. This means that the remaining players have so far survived 50 hours of poker (25 levels).

Read more » 2015 WSOP Main Event: Belgian Pro Pierre Neuville Leads Final 69; Daniel Negreanu Still Alive

The Main Event has been narrowed down to 237 survivors following Day 4, which saw nearly two-thirds hit the rail in close to 13 hours of play. The chip leader changed around 7 times, however, it was Joe McKeehen, from North Wales, PA who bagged up the chip lead at the end of play.

Read more » 2015 WSOP Main Event: 237 Players Through to Day 4, Including Daniel Negreanu!

On Tuesday, for the first time ever, Daniel Negreanu used Twitch (a live streaming video platform) while playing on PokerStars. Despite the fact that the Team PokerStars Pro only played cash games, the stream attracted over 152,000 views.

Read more » Negreanu Gives Twitch A Shot: First Session Got Over 150,000 Views!

The very first Annual American Poker Awards Ceremony (sponsored by PokerStars) took place in Beverly Hills on February 27th, 2015, and around 200 guests attended the event, including elite poker players, industry leaders and operators from the North American Poker World.

Read more » American Poker Awards

Daniel Negreanu, and many other big names in the poker world, is currently on Paradise Island in the Bahamas for the 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. On Monday, he took the stage in the Player's Lounge to talk about the mental game of poker and also to answer questions like"What do you think about taking notes at the table?" and "What differences have you noticed between online players and live players?" Enough talk. Check out the video below!

About a month ago, the final 10 nominees were presented on World Series of Poker's website. Last week, the 21 living Hall of Fame members and a 20-media panel cast their votes and Daniel Negreanu and Jack McClelland were selected to become the 47th and 48th members of the Poker Hall of Fame!

Read more » Daniel Negreanu & Jack McClelland Join The Poker Hall of Fame

The 10 nominees (selected by the public for the sixth year in a row) for the 2014 Poker Hall of Fame were announced by World Series of Poker on Tuesday. The list of nominees include 5 returning candidates (highlighted in blue) and five new players, including Daniel Negreanu who turned 40 this year and now meet the criteria* to be inducted.

Read more » 2014 Poker Hall of Fame: And The Nominees Are...

Curious to know how successful poker players live? Well, now you can tick off Daniel Negreanu's house on your "bucket list" as PokerStars has uploaded a behind-the-scenes tour video of his Las Vegas home, which was renovated about a year ago to a "Austin Powers Meets Pee-wee Herman"-style. Also, if you are curious to know more about the lady in the video, then we recommend that you read Daniel Negreanu's New Girlfriend.Read more » Austin Powers Meets Pee-wee Herman - A Look Inside Negreanu's Casa

Sportbladet Poker, the poker section of Aftonbladet - Sweden's biggest newspaper, recently met up with Daniel Negreanu at Arts Hotel (during EPT Barcelona) for an interview. In the interview, Daniel talked about getting his heart broken and meeting his new girlfriend, Marissa Rachelle Rodney - a hairstylist in Las Vegas.

Read more » Daniel Negreanu's New Girlfriend

Curious to know what it's like to win millions of dollars playing poker and to be sponsored by the world's largest poker site? You can stop wondering because BankrollMob is now giving you the unique opportunity to ask five members of Team PokerStars Pro (Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Liv Boeree, Jason Mercier and Jonathan Duhamel) yourself!

Post your questions below (no more than 3 questions per pro) by no later than Friday, August 24th. We will then select 5 questions for each pro and forward them to PokerStars.

Here are some questions already asked

Curious to know what it's like to win millions of dollars playing poker and to be sponsored by the world's largest poker site? You can stop wondering because BankrollMob is now giving you the unique opportunity to ask five members of Team PokerStars Pro (Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Liv Boeree, Jason Mercier and Jonathan Duhamel) yourself!

Post your questions below (no more than 3 questions per pro) by no later than Friday, August 15th. We will then select 5 questions for each pro and forward them to PokerStars. 

Canadian Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu has had an incredible year so far on the live tournament circuit, including 9 cashes worth over $8.5 million at the 2014 World Series of Poker.

Thanks to his outstanding achievements this summer, Negreanu now has a great chance of winning back-to-back WSOP Player of The Year titles! In addition to that, he turned 40 on July 26th which means that he's a big favorite of being inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame!

Read more » WSOP: Daniel Negreanu On His Success This Summer

2,571 players sat down at the tables at the Rio All-Suit Hotel and Casino for Day 2C of the 2014 WSOP Main Event on Tuesda. Once concluded after 10 hours of poker action, the legendary Phil Ivey was on top of the hill with a great stack of 505,000 chips which puts him on top of all fields! Some 1,400 players survived to Day 3C!

The C-field had a lot of famous poker icons when it started. Some of which were eliminated during Day 2 including Phil Hellmuth, Gus Hansen, JC Tran, Gerard Pique, Andreas Hoivold, Dutch Boyd, Joe Hachem, Matt Salsberg and Daniel Colman. However, Daniel Negreanu made it and, although his stack is very shy (39,800), is ready for Day 3C!

Read more » 2014 WSOP: Event #65 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event Day 2C

Daniel Colman, 23, is the winner of the second $1,000,000 buy-in BIG ONE for ONE DROP! The final table action lasted for 118 hands and Colman defeated no one else than Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu heads-up to nab the bracelet and a bank-busting $15.3 million in prize money. Colman, better known as heads-up sit-n-go specialist "mrgr3n13", battled Negreanu for 46 hands before an epic all-in occurred...

Read more » 2014 WSOP: Dan Colman Wins BIG ONE for ONE DROP ($15,306,668)!!!

The final table of Event #57: The Big One for One Drop ($1,000,000 buy-in) is set after two days of intensive play! Day 2 began with 31 players and Sam Trickett out in front. After 13 hours of poker action, Rick Salmon (FILM PRODUCER, ACTOR, TELEVISION PRODUCER, ENTREPRENEUR, PROFESSIONAL POKER PLAYER) bagged up the largest stack (23,575,000 chips) amongst the nine survivors.

Read more » 2014 WSOP: Rick Salomon Leads Final Nine In The Big One for ONE DROP

Simply amazing! Phil Ivey won his 10th WSOP gold bracelet on Friday night in the $1,500 Eight-Game Mix tournament! Besides the bracelet and the $166,986 prize money, Ivey won considerably more in side bets made on the proposition of him or Daniel Negreanu winning a bracelet this year!

Read more » 2014 WSOP: Phil Ivey Wins 10th WSOP Bracelet in Event #50: $1,500 Eight-Game Mix!

A lot was at stake for Mr. Daniel Negreanu on the final table of the Event #13: No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball, given that he could win his 7th gold bracelet but also because he and Phil Ivey have accepted large bets on whether they will win a bracelet this summer. And to make things extra exciting, Negreanu made it to heads-up against Paul Volpe after a few hours of play...

Read more » 2014 WSOP Paul Volpe Denies Negreanu His 7th Bracelet In Event #13