He is the first player to make a final table at each of the three WSOP bracelet-awarding locations (Las Vegas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific), and the first to win a bracelet at each.
[9] Negreanu was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1974, seven years after his parents, Annie and Constantin, emigrated from Romania.
[10] The Negreanus had hoped to start a new life in the United States but ended up settling in Toronto where Constantin worked as an electrician and sold confectionery.
"[12] While nursing dreams of a career as a professional snooker player, the then 15-year-old learned to play poker.
[13] At the age of 16, he was spending time in pool halls, hustling, betting on sports, and playing cards.
[14] While in Toronto, he met and began dating Evelyn Ng,[15] who would also become a well-known professional poker player.
After building a bankroll, he left for Las Vegas at the age of 22 to pursue his dream of becoming a professional poker player.
Unlike many players, he is outspoken about his results and regularly posts updates in the Full Contact Poker forums.
Negreanu won $169,460 in the $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em event in the 1998 World Series of Poker, becoming the youngest WSOP bracelet winner in history — a record he held until 2004 (Scott Fischman).
[22][23][24][25] In November 2008, Negreanu won the fourth-annual British Columbia Poker Championships main event, topping a field of 690 players (a personal high for Daniel), and earning $371,910 CAD (US$299,951).
[30] In addition to Negreanu's regular appearances in the big game at Bobby's Room, he played in all seven seasons of the television show High Stakes Poker.
In June 2005 he announced his decision to terminate that relationship due to software issues that were problematic enough to cause a shutdown of the site.
[34] On July 29, 2020, after a years-long feud with fellow poker pro Doug Polk, Negreanu publicly accepted a challenge to a high-stakes grudge match.
The arrangement lasted until October 2005, when he opted out because it was restricting his ability to play for high stakes outside the Wynn.
He has written over 100 articles for CardPlayer Magazine and contributed to Doyle Brunson's revised book, Super System II.
He has tutored on the web as part of Poker School Online and also personally given lessons to celebrities such as Tobey Maguire and Shannon Elizabeth.
[49] Negreanu made a cameo appearance as a poker player playing against the mutant Gambit in the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
He also appeared in Katy Perry's music video for "Waking Up in Vegas" as a poker player.
Daniel was a major advocate of the move to bring the National Hockey League to Las Vegas, along with Malaysian billionaire and fellow poker player Richard Yong.
After picking up the game in 2015, he began streaming it alongside poker on Twitch and was invited to a showmatch during the Hearthstone World Championship at BlizzCon 2015 in Anaheim, California, against former StarCraft: Brood War pro and fellow WSOP and WPT champion Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, which he won 3–1.
[56] In 2018, Negreanu was promoted and credited as an associate producer for a documentary about veganism in sports, The Game Changers.
[citation needed] On October 1, 2020, Negreanu was one of 12 individuals named in a $330 million defamation lawsuit brought by poker professional Mike Postle.
Others named in the suit include Phil Galfond, ESPN and Negreanu's heads-up challenge opponent Doug Polk.