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WSOP Profile – Kid Poker

Players, WSOP, WSOP Champions, WSOP History by Craig on October 6, 2008

Daniel Negreanu is won of the most respected and most decorated professional poker players of all time. Every time he plays he is a fan favorite and a threat to win. He is coming off a great showing at the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe and remains one of the top players in the world. His style at the table is one that the general public can connect to, he’s talkative and seems to have a lot of fun at the tables. “Kid Poker”, burst on the seen in the mid 1990′s and has continued to have success right up to today. Daniel is a gambler, he also loves to bet on golf and will play any form of poker that is available to him.

Negreanu was born in Canada and is a poker icon in that country. He started his poker dreams playing in backroom games and in Casino’s near Toronto Ontario. Negreanu broke threw as a young man in 1997 at Foxwoods winning two events for more then $50 000 and starting his climb to the top of the poker world. Later on in 1998 “Kid Poker” won his first bracelet in a $2000 Pot Limit Holdem tournament becoming the youngest player to ever win a bracelet at the WSOP. His first bracelet was worth more then $160 000 and would be a sign of future success at the World Series. He didn’t win a bracelet again until 2003, but over that period he had 8 top 15 finishes and came close multiple times. In 2003 he won his second bracelet in a SHOE tournament, he won more then $100 000. 2004 was truly Daniels best year at the Series and he would claim player of the year honors for his efforts. Five times in 2004 Negreanu finished in the top 10 in tournaments, finishing 3rd in a no limit event and winning limit holdem event number 15 for his third bracelet. In 2005 Daniel was still winning, taking home a circuit event for more then $750 000 and his biggest cash at the WSOP. In 2006 and 2007 Daniel didn’t win a bracelet, but he still performed well cashing seven times over the two years. In 2008 Daniel broke threw again winning his 4th bracelet in a limit holdem tournament. He showed up in London recently looking to win his first WSOPE bracelet, although he didn’t win he made the final table at the main event winning more then 215 000 pounds. All in all Daniel has four bracelets, 33 cashes and more $2 million in Career World Series of Poker earnings.

More then just the WSOP Daniel has found a lot of success at the WPT winning two titles. He was the WPT player of the year in 2005 and has 16 WPT cashes in his career. “Kid Poker” has the most career earnings on the WPT and you can commonly see him on television shows like Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker. When you look at Daniels career totals he has earned more then $10 million in poker tournaments and ranks second all time to main event winner Jamie Gold, who won $12 million in one tournament. Negreanu is still young and will no doubt pass Gold some day. The fans love to watch him play and you will continue to see him on television, he even announces from time to time.

Daniel Negreanu’s style is unlike a lot of the other top pros you will see. He doesn’t sit like a statue with his sun glasses on or sit silently so that players can’t get reads off of him. I believe this is why he is so popular, he is entertaining. His game is unique, he loves to play pots and be in the action, probably more then any other big named professional player. Daniel is known for his love of playing small suited connectors and hands that most players will throw away without a second thought. Negreanu doesn’t need pocket aces to win, he’ll play small pots and take advantage of weaknesses in his opponents. He can do this because of his excellent ability to read players and figure out where he stands in a hand. We have all see it before in World Series of Poker programming, when Daniel calls out the hand of his opponent perfectly. He relies of this skill and it has won him a lot of money over the years. Sometimes it is as if he can see the hole card cameras, when he works his way back threw the hand and guesses is competitor raised with a Queen Eight. Undoubtably some of that skill is natural, but he has worked hard on it and you know he has been wrong a lot of the time. Because he relies of his ability to read opponents, when he isn’t playing good or if he is card dead Texas Holdem becomes very difficult for him.

Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu is one of the best poker players to ever play. He has more world wide career money earnings that great players of his generation like Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey and Allen Cunningham. He loves to play poker and he loves to golf and his life is great when he is in the action. Daniel has four bracelets and counting, your guess as much as mine of how many he will win throughout his poker career. Negreanu is fun to watch and is very entertaining at the table. Be aware if you get the chance to play with him, everything is calculated everything he says while in a hand with you is designed for him to have the best outcome. Someday Daniel will be the biggest money earner in poker tournament history and should be considered one of the top players of all time. “Kid Poker” is a great player, he is highly respected and a fan favorite all over the world.

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