Daniel Negreanu's Top 5 Earnings

Daniel's Top 5 Earnings Negreanu

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 in his career and has won 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. Over the years, he has managed to win 6 bracelets from the most prestigious competition for poker professionals. In the following lines, we will recall his five biggest wins, which made him an extremely famous name in the world of this casino game.

Each of the winnings we're going to share exceeds a million US dollars, and there are a few more that approach seven figures. The fifth most serious profit with which he gets up from the table dates back to 2004, when he managed to win 1 million 117 thousand and 400 dollars from the Borgata tournament, which is part of the World Poker Tour. It's happening in Atlantic City, and it's early in Negreanu's career. At the final table, he managed to deal with names such as David Williams, who remained second, Josh Arie, who remained in third position and Brandon Moran, who finished fifth. In addition to the first six-figure sum, he is also guaranteed 1,440 points for the world ranking of poker players.

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 in his career and the amount of 2 million 792 thousand and 406 dollars. However, for second place, Negreanu took home $1,725,838 and 900 ranking points. The final table features names like Nick Shulman, Igor Kurganov and Brandon Adams, but both players are above them. In the final hand, Negreanu has an ace of hearts and a pair of diamonds in his hand, while Tilston has a queen of diamonds and a jack of diamonds, and an eight and a seven of diamonds come to the table to give the Canadian victory, but after a week of spades, it's turn a jack of spades also appears on the river, meaning that with a pair of jacks, Tilson is the winner. Still, it's the fourth-highest amount Negreanu has won.

For his third biggest win, we go back to 2004, which was one of Negreanu's most successful years. Then he won the Bellagio World Poker Tour Five of Diamonds Classic. This is only the third tournament in history, and Negreanu, who is among the debutants, not only managed to reach the final table, but also won it in a battle with Umberto Brenes from Costa Rica, who was with the Canadian until the very end, but also Vinny Landrum , Jennifer Harmon, Steve Rasi and Nam Lee, considered the heavy favorite but finished sixth. Negreanu's winnings are $1,770,218, making him one of the richest poker players of 2004.

Fourteen years later comes the Canadian's second biggest win. And then she's number two, but more on that in a moment. In May 2018, he not only reached the final table of the "Super High Roller Bowl" tournament, but also managed to reach the second position, guaranteeing himself a whopping $3 million. Money that really seems like something spectacular for people willing to spend about 100-200 dollars to sit at a table. However, $300,000 is required to enter this race. With 48 players in total, it's clear that victory won't come easy, with Seth Davis, Stephen Chidwick, Nick Petrangelo, defending champion Christoph Vogersang, Jason Coon and Justin Bonomo at the final table. It was Bonomo who managed to win against Negreanu in the final fights to grab the 5 million prize pool. Still, second place must have been satisfying for the Canadian, who managed to multiply his buy-in by 10 and land his second-biggest poker tournament win.

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" race in Las Vegas, Nevada in July 2014. Negreanu was battling just 23-year-old Danie Coleman for the top prize of more than $15 million, which would certainly put Negreanu among the biggest names in Texas Hold'em poker history. 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. The Canadian won 8 million 288 thousand and 1 dollar, which to this day remains an amount that is difficult to earn even in two or three years in professional poker.

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