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Daniel Negreanu Breaks Down His Wildest Poker Hand Of The Year

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Poker professional Daniel Negreanu is one of the most successful card players in history. He currently sits in 3rd place on the poker all-time money list with $49,942,498 in winnings.

‘Kid Poker’ Daniel Negreanu‘s career earnings got a big boost in October of 2022 when he won the 2022 Super High Roller Bowl. This was a $300,000 buy-in event and Negreanu won it all for $3,312,000.

In addition to being one of the greatest poker players of all time, Negreanu has arguably the best poker vlog in the industry. He has a gift for breaking down his hands, thought process, and style of play, that most poker players could only ever dream of.

For his latest video, Daniel Negreanu breaks down what he calls ‘the hand heard round the world’. He makes it very clear that his tournament life was never at risk here. But he shows us how he cracked Aces Full with Quads.

Daniel Negreanu Breaks Down His Wildest Poker Hand Of The Year

It is interesting how much Daniel Negreanu emphasizes that his time at the poker table was never in jeopardy during this hand. He seems as if he would’ve been able to get away from the 3’s at any time if he sense aces. But when the board came out runner-runner 3’s and he made quads for the nuts it was a blood bath.

That hand helped catapult Negreanu towards the $3.3 million first-place prize for winning the 2022 Super High Roller Bowl. And that final table was STACKED.

The final results were Daniel Negreanu (1st). Nick Petrangelo finished 2nd for $2,016,000 and Nick ranks 23rd on the all-time poker money list. Andrew Lichtenberger finished 3rd for $1,152,000. He ranks 59th on the all-time money list. And poker legend Justin Bonomo finished 4th for $720,000. Justin sits atop poker’s all-time money list with $58,954,124 in winnings, just ahead of Bryn Kenney who has $57,221,865.

That is a murder’s row of talented poker players to navigate en route to winning the $3.3 million.

Daniel Negreanu Reveals His 2022 Poker Earnings And How This Year Compared To The Past

Negreanu has earned nearly $50 million in live poker events throughout his career. He ranks 3rd on the all-time money list for live poker tournament earnings.

Daniel Negreanu’s biggest live poker tournament cash to date was a $8,288,001 win in the ‘$1 Million No-Limit Hold’em Big One for One Drop’ 2014 World Series of Poker. That was a $1 million buy-in event Negreanu won $8.288M in after finishing in second place to Daniel Colman who earned $15,306,668 for first.

Now that the 2022 poker season is over, Daniel Negreanu shared his 2022 winnings along with how this year has compared to his results in previous years. On average, the ‘Kid Poker’ or ‘Dnegs’ is winning $1,459,695 at the tables each year since 2013. Not too shabby:

Daniel noted that those numbers are just based on results/what was paid out. That’s not including the tournaments where he sold a % of his buy-in to people staking him, nor did it include taxes or expenses.

PokerGo reporter Jeff Platt joked about ‘Troll Math’ with Daniel.

Looking at that tweet above it’s easy to miss that 2015 was a negative $1.2M year. Many people scrolling through might’ve only see the numbers and not that 2015 was a big loss:

It would be interesting to see the cash numbers as well:

He’s not always winning though!

Daniel Negreanu Loses $311K In Brutal Cash Game Hand

This is a cash game. They’re playing with cash out of their own bankroll. When you see Daniel Negreanu with $223K next to his name that’s the actual amount of cash money he had on the table. Phil Ivey had $244K and Patrik Antonius was sitting with $184K.

Over his career, Daniel Negreanu has cashed in 196 World Series of Poker Las Vegas tournaments for a total of $16,886,427. His biggest cash as the 2022 World Series of Poker was $88,081 in the Online Event #8: $7,777 Lucky 7’s NL Hold’em High Roller. Even with an ‘off year’ at the WSOP by his standards, Daniel still finished 62nd in the WSOP Player of the Year standings.

Away from the felt, Daniel Negreanu has some fun stories about winning tons of cash. He once won $550,000 in a round of golf that all came down to a final putt. He told that story back in 2019 on the No Laying Up podcast:

“My golf game was not very good. The back tees at TPC Summerlin is about 7,000 yards. I can’t hit a driver more than 230, so I don’t hit any of the greens from back there. I bet them that if they gave me a year, I could shoot 80 from the back tees there.

So I’m drunk and we’re all drinking and I bet $550,000 on this. But I get as many rounds as I need.

So with about a month to spare, I go out there and [score] 110… 108… 106. OK, that’s my first three rounds, and I have a month. So we woke up at 7 a.m. every day, we practiced for an hour, played 18, practiced for another hour, played 18, played 9 more and then practiced again. So I would go from 7 a.m. to about 8 p.m. every day.

Within about a week, I was shooting low 90s. Maybe a week later, mid to high 80s. And with about a week and a half to spare, actually, I was 2-under after nine. So then all the carts started coming out, because they were like ‘oh boy, here he comes.’

There was probably 60 golf carts on the last three holes, sweating me. And so, in the last three holes, I needed to go bogey-bogey-bogey to win the bet. They were the three toughest holes, also. The first one is the easiest of the three, so I of course double-bogey that.

Now I need to par one of the last two, and I make par on [17]. And then I have a six-footer for all of the money to win. I’m actually a good putter, but this putt – I hit the putt, and as I hit the putt, my knees sort of fell to the ground, in a way, but somehow the ball went in and I made it.”

In that same interview, Negreanu revealed he once lost $1.2 million to Phil Ivey in a round of golf at Shadow Creek.