Daniel Negreanu Poker Fan

It’s tough to follow poker and not know Daniel Negreanu. The 32 year old Canadian nicknamed “Kid Poker” for his youthful appearance and childlike enthusiasm is every bit a part of today’s poker boom as any of the big poker celebrities. A tremendous tournament poker talent, Daniel has been named Cardplayer Poker Player of the Year, has four World Series of Poker bracelets, has two WPT crowns, which you can read about in articles about the World Poker Tour, and millions of dollars in tournament earnings. He has his own poker blog that any player can enjoy, his own poker video game, and his own poker website, FullContactPoker.com. Daniel is also a fearless cash game player, appearing regularly at Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio, where the highest stakes cash games in the world take place, and appearing on all three seasons of High Stakes Poker on GSN, even getting up from the table to do some commentary for a brief time. You can also see Daniel outmaneuvering the world’s toughest opposition on televised poker shows like Poker After Dark, Poker at the Plaza and the Ultimate Poker Challenge. How can you beat a player like this?

No Free Cards

Daniel Negreanu is known for his ability to outplay opponents after the flop. He is highly skilled at putting opponents on hand and detecting weakness. He also plays a wide variety of hands, making it difficult to put him on any particular holding. If you’re going to come into a pot and Daniel Negreanu is at the table, you’re going to want to come in raising. Do everything you can to get Daniel out of the pot early, or not to come in at all, because if you let him hang around, you could be in big trouble.

Bet For Value

One thing Daniel has struggled with is getting away from a hand on the river. Even when he makes one of his classic reads, telling the opponent what he likely holds, it’s hard for Daniel to give up on a good hand if he’s gone all the way to the end. Therefore, when you hit your miracle straight on the end, bet it. Don’t wait for Daniel Negreanu to bet for you, because if you’re behind, he probably won’t, costing you a precious opportunity to get some chips from a world class player.

Be a Protégé

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Daniel has offered a golden opportunity for a lucky player to become his protégé, learning tips and tricks for becoming a poker star directly from Daniel himself. The first protégé, Brian Fidler, has already experienced some tournament success. Details on future protégé opportunities should be available on the FullContactPoker.com website.

Daniel Negreanu plays this middle pair to perfection in position against Dan Shack in High Stakes Poker. In this GSN extra video, Daniel explains his thinking processes during this particular hand, and I have to say Daniel explains everything crystal clear…

The pre-flop raise, how he interpreted Shack’s hesitation, the reason for his small blind continuation bet, and the reasoning behind the turn check and his excellent call of Dan’s river bluff.

It looks like a standard hand, but Daniel shows us he’s doing more than just HOPING he’s good there…

This is how awesome Daniel is. Excellent videoblog talking about both his life and his experiences at the PLO event at the ‘08 WSOP. I like the dogs.

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LOL

This IS an absurd ruling. I mean the idea of blinds are them BLINDING off — so if players are not at the table they just shouldn’t buy into the freaking tournament in the first place or take the correct ‘punishment’…

Video thanks to Pokernews.

Hahaha this is obviously a fake but it’s hilarious… Daniel the actor!

Okay now I’ve read rumours that this vid would be the real deal. No way, ok. First of all — Siktilt is a serious site. Second — Daniel has people around him to make sure these kind of things don’t happen. He’s a media figure and he would never allow this to happen. It’s a fact. Please don’t buy in to this, enjoy the laugh, though!

Went into a discussion with a poker friend of mine. We discussed some of Daniel’s weak calls on the river in various High Stakes Poker seasons, and we pretty much broke it down to these factors:

1. Daniel Negreanu did not want to get bluffed on national television.
2. Daniel flopped a lot of hands, got beaten a lot times — and couldn’t believe it kept happening.
3. Daniel wanted information. He was paying for information (a lot of cash, though).
4.  Daniel was steaming.

I’m afraid most of it was 2 and 4 — and 50% was cold deck as well. Whatever it was, we both agreed on some of the calls being bad.

Then again — if I was dealt his cards against those opponents (I mean can you fold a straight to Sam Farha?) good chance I would have busted. Meh.

It’s not much new really but I love how he describes the last category. It’s almost like he’s saying: “just fold if I bet in to you, kthxbi”.

Video is part of the stacked dvd and I’m not sure if these videos were added to YouTube with permission. Thing is, they’ve been up for over a year so I’m sure Daniel doesn’t really mind too much, or he would have asked them to be taken down, right?

Alright so we all know Daniel Negreanu can be a psychic every once in a while when he’s guessing the whole cards of his opponents — right here — he puts Ryan McClean on Aces — and loses the absolute minimum after what is a mediocre call pre-flop imho.

Anyway — excellently played, didn’t put any more chips in after the flop. Talk about missing value bets by Ryan McClean.

Footage from the World Series of Poker, 2007.