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Daniel Negreanu by Muresan Vasile
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Daniel Negreanu was born on July 26, 1974, is a Canadian professional poker player of Romanian ancestry. He has won four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championship titles. He is now ranked first in the all-time career earnings list, surpassing Phil Ivey who held that mark and is also currently the star of poker game show Million Dollar Challenge.Looking to start a new life in the United States, his parents, Annie and Constantin, left the old Communist regime of Romania in 1967,. They settled up in Toronto instead. They soon started a family, Daniel arriving five years after his older brother. While nursing dreams of a career as a professional snooker player, the 15-year-old learned how to play poker. By 16, he was spending time in pool halls, hustling, sports betting, and playing cards. Several credits short of graduation Daniel dropped out of high school. Soon he began his life as a rounder playing at the local casinos and looking for illegal games around the city. After building up his bankroll, he left for Las Vegas at the age of 22 to pursue his dream of becoming a professional poker player. However, it got the better of him and he was forced to move back home to Toronto to rebuild his bankroll. He married Lori Lin Weber and in August 2005, but they separated in November 2007. He now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. He posts his thoughts and feelings about different things in life, politics, the poker world and everything on his blog at Full Contact Poker . He is such a NHL fan once claiming on Poker After Dark at the dream table he was thinking of declining the offer because the tournament was in the middle of hockey season. He is often seen wearing NHL jerseys of the Toronto Maple Leafs and other teams. He received his green card on July 15, 2009 after many years living in the USA. On November 23, 2009 Daniel's mother died in her sleep after being ill for many months. With two first place finishes at the 1997 World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, Daniel took the world of tournament poker by storm and never looked back. He has since added three World Series of Poker bracelets, two World Poker Tour titles, and more than thirty victories in tournaments across the globe. In addition to Negreanu's regular appearances in the big game at Bobby's Room, he has played in all six seasons of High Stakes Poker. Daniel has written more than a hundred articles on the sport, and even contributed to Doyle Brunson's Super System II. In December 2005, he started his own online poker cardroom "skin" site on his official site, Full Contact Poker, which also includes his blog and a variety of poker forums. He played at his cardroom under the screen name "KidPoker". In 2006, he used Full Contact Poker to launch a competition to select a protege whom Daniel would attempt to mold into a world-class live tournament poker player. In addition, he agreed to pay the protege's entry fee into four $10,000 buy-in events. Daniel's first protege was Brian Fidler. In 2007, Daniel ran a second protege promotion, which was won by Anthony Mak. Negreanu is currently enduring a personal bankroll building challenge on PokerStars. He started with $10 and his goal is to increase it to $100,000. As of 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceed $14,100,000. His 48 cashes at the WSOP account for $3,515,597 of those winnings. He recently became the all-time leading money winner for tournament poker, surpassing Phil Ivey. Daniel Negreanu may be the most famous poker player in the world, especially that he has a name in the Xbox360 game called "Stacked" and a poker trainings in a well known poker site. Daniel is known for his nickname Kid Poker. Daniel Negreanu has played poker with the big names in the world and most of them were his friends. He is one of the most fierce game of poker, especially as he collected awards at the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour. Any amateur poker player is definitely scared of this type. At an early age, he already knew how to play poker and began competing in tournaments. During his time in high school, he dropped out to improve his poker skills to pursue a career in poker. Most sessions are from Daniel's poker games illegal, and sometimes he also played in casinos in the city. At age 21 he began playing poker in casinos and Las Vegas major. First time playing poker in Las Vegas was a great loss. At that time, he returned home and made some adjustments to return to the game of poker in Las Vegas. Even though he has yet to win in competition with professional poker players, he has the heart to become more than what is to become a world-class poker player. By 1997, Daniel Negreanu was the best player when they won the tournament in Foxwoods' World Poker Championship. " Later that year, Daniel was able to join the World Series of Poker and won $ 2,000 limit hold'em game. With his successful victories, he was then known as Kid Poker and the youngest World Series bracelet winner in poker history. In 2005, he began to run his own poker room named Full Contact Poker, which is online. Using his name as Kid Poker, he has set events in which he learns his tricks all the knowledge in poker games. He also had opportunities to give private lessons on how celebrities to play poker. The reputation earned in the poker world, he was also known as a guardian online poker school. Daniel Negreanu has won numerous awards through the years to come and his name was spread across lume.Also was given the opportunity to be a character in a game of poker XBOX360 which makes him very famous. "Every year, I gather information about players, about how to react in extreme situations. Perhaps mostimportantly, learn to fully control my emotional state. This, however, would have a negative effect on my everydaylife. We had virtually to be a rigid man, whose face could not read nor sadness, nor happiness, nor anything . Later,I realized that I must not be necessarily nasty to be a great poker player, "said Champion In an article on hispersonal website.
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