Daniel Negreanu's Top 10 Earnings

Top 10 of Daniel Negreanu's earnings

What are the largest amounts of money a Canadian has ever won in poker tournaments

Daniel Negreanu is one of the best professional poker players in the world. Born in Toronto, Canada on July 26, 1974, the player has two World Poker Tour titles and 6 World Series of Poker titles in his career, winning millions of dollars from the game. He participated in 9 final tables of the World Poker Tour and walked away with money from these competitions 24 times. In the following lines, we will see which are his ten biggest wins from the game for which Negreanu has become so famous.

#10 – $936,000

This is the only amount below one million US dollars. It is also one of his last big wins. Negreanu clinched it with his second-place finish at the Bellagio Super High Roller 1 on November 29, 2017. The Canadian reached the final table of the prestigious event in Las Vegas, but eventually lost to Dan Smith, who walked away with just over a million and 400 thousand as the winner. Still, for the $100,000 invested in the race, Negreanu's win is worth it.

#9 – $1,000,000

Entering a tournament with 100k and walking away with 10x that amount is a very good achievement, but only the ninth of Daniel's career. It was again after second place, so he could have taken away more from the PokerStarts Caribbean Adventure in January 2011. At the final table, however, Negreanu was outplayed by Evgeni Kachalov, who stole a million and a half.

#8 – $1,001,225

Well, when you think about it, against the background of 1 million, what is another 1225 dollars? The difference between the Canadian pro poker player's eighth and ninth biggest earnings is not much, but in the end, with his performance at the European Event 8 competition, he managed to not only take home a huge amount of money, but also win the tournament in which puts just over 33 thousand. This is happening on October 24, 2013.

#7 – $1,087,160

A little earlier in the same 2013, Negreanu ventured into the Asia-Pacific World Series and managed to win. The buy-in was only $10,465, and he managed to walk away with $1,087,160 in US currency. It's one of the most notable performances and his second-biggest career win percentage. The Canadian walks away with almost 100 times the amount invested.

#6 – $1,116,750

Another profit about a million. Something that is perfectly normal, but not for fourth place in a tournament. This takes place on February 10th, 2014 to mark that Negreanu's strong 2013 career will continue into next year. Negreanu played an extremely strong tournament, entering with $225,998, but made the final table ahead of Mike MacDonald, Isaac Haxton and winner Phil Ivey, who won over $3.5 million.

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#5 – $1,117,400

Yes, there is not even $1,000 on top, but such is the first big prize that put Negreanu on the map of world poker stars. This happened on September 22, 2004, when he won the "Borgata Open" tournament, in which participation costs only 10 thousand. Over 100 times the stake goes to the winner in Atlantic City. And at the final table, he managed to deal with names like David Williams, who remained second, Josh Arie, who remained in third position, and Brandon Moran, who finished fifth.

#4 – $1,725,838

In fourth place is his profit from a tournament in which he did not even manage to take first place. We are talking about a competition that took place in 2019 and is again part of the World Series of Poker. In it, Negreanu lost to Kate Tilston, who managed to grab the first bracelet of his career and the sum of $2,792,406. However, for the second place, Negreanu should be satisfied because the entry fee is only 100 thousand or 1.6 million less than the money he won. In his final hand, Negreanu holds an ace of hearts and a pair of diamonds, while Tilston has a queen of diamonds and a king of diamonds, and the table shows an eight and a seven of diamonds, which gives the Canadian victory, but after a week of spades on the turn, it's his turn to appear and a jack of spades on the river, meaning that with a pair of jacks, the winner is Tilson.

#3 – $1,770,218

For Negreanu's third biggest win, we go back to 2004, the year that launched him into space. The year he made his first million. Then he won the Bellagio World Poker Tour Five of Diamonds Classic. The Canadian is among the debutants, not only managed to reach the final table, but also to win it in a battle with Umberto Brenes from Costa Rica, Vinny Landrum, Jennifer Harmon, Steve Rasi and Nam Li, considered the big favorite, but he was only sixth. Negreanu's profit is extremely high, considering that he only pays 15 thousand to participate.

#2 – $3,000,000

Daniel's latest million dollar win is also the second biggest of his career. A second place finish at the Super High Roller Bowl on May 30, 2018 earned him an amount that many pros can only dream of. Negreanu pays 300,000 to participate in this race, which he multiplies by 10 and leaves the final table as the second happiest. On it, he is second only to Justin Bonomo, who managed to get 5 million. However, out of a total of 48 competitors, the Canadian sneaks into second place and shows that his good form from 2013 and 2014 is not to be underestimated and can be demonstrated again.

#1 – $8,288,001

The biggest cash that Negreanu has managed to grab, ironically, has again come from second place, and it's from the most prestigious tournament with the biggest prize pool in which he has managed to reach the final four. It is about the "One Drop" competition in Las Vegas, Nevada in July 2014. Negreanu is battling with just 23-year-old Danie Colman for the top prize of more than $15 million. However, no one suspects that Coleman is ready to make a real sensation and leave behind one of the most experienced players left at the final table. For Negreanu, however, this tournament shouldn't be such a big disappointment, as he is still coming off his biggest win in a World Series of Poker event. And the million paid for participation hardly weighed in this case, given the solid sum Negreanu is leaving with.

Is it possible that in the coming years we will see it with even better profits? This is a difficult question to answer given the fact that in 2021, Daniel once again managed to put in some fantastic performances and win close to a million and a half from two tournaments.

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