Just remebered I haven’t made a biography of Daniel Negreanu! A couple of months back I wrote a blogpost about his WPT/WSOP performmances, but no real biography.

Well here it is: Like many people, Daniel Negreanu’s passion was conceived at a young age. His parents had both left Romania and made a permanent stop in Toronto, where Daniel’s father became an electrician. Daniel Negreanu, however, didn’t want to follow in his father’s electric footsteps, and decided to venture out into the world of poker. He taught himself how to play poker at the meager age of 15, and at 16, turned his passion into a financially pleasing hobby, playing at pool halls and betting with other gamblers. The pleasantry ended when he found himself incapable of graduating high school, which is why Negreanu, at 17, dropped out. When he was 21, he made the decision to move to Las Vegas in order to pursue a career in poker. Unfortunately, luck abandoned him, and with his financial state awry, he moved back to Toronto.

Fortunately, luck, along with talent, re-entered Daniel Negreanu’s life when he won a couple events at the World Poker Finals. Since then he’s started his own poker-friendly website, signed with PokerStars, the largest online poker cardroom, and has racked in thousands of dollars by participating in various Tournaments.