Bio Daniel Negreanu

Daniel was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. By the age of 15 he started learning the essentials of poker. He decided to drop out of high school to fulfil his dream of becoming a poker pro. He started off as a rounder playing at the local casinos and also looking for illegal games in Toronto. At the age of 22 Daniel decided to hit Vegas. However, it got the better of him and he had to go back to Toronto.

In 1997 when Daniel won two events at the World Poker Finals earning himself $133,600 as well as being named the tournament's best all-around player. He backed up his efforts in the 1998 WSOP by winning $169,460 at the $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em event and becoming the youngest WSOP bracelet winner in history — a record he held until 2004.

Over the next few years, he became one of the most successful poker tournament players in history, winning two WPT events, another two WSOP bracelets, and appearing at 11 final tables.

Upon opening, the WYNN Las Vegas resort recruited him as their "Poker Ambassador" to play for any stake in their poker room. The arrangement lasted until October 2005 when he opted out because it was restricting his ability to play for high stakes outside the Wynn.

Daniel is known for his ability to "read" other players, gathering information about his opponent's hand by studying their betting patterns and physical expressions.

Daniel was named "Favourite Poker Player" at the Card Player, Player of the Year Awards Gala in February 2006.

"At the highest levels everyone has a decent understanding of the math. Feel, or psychological warfare is what it's all about. I honestly don't think that a pure math guy has much of a chance in those games because they aren't psychologically prepared for the game."
-Daniel Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu is one of my personal favourite poker players. His reading abilities and down-to-earth attitude hand in hand with his attitude towards the game in general and other people makes him such a great player and entertainer.

Screen name(s):
KidPoker - PokerStars
doublesuited - Full Tilt Poker

Career Highlights:

• 1997: Best All Around Player, World Poker Finals.
• 1998: WSOP Pot Limit Hold'em at age 23.
  
• 1999: United States Poker Champion.
• 1997-1999: 12 major tournament wins.
• 2000: Live action in Las Vegas at the Bellagio.
• 2001: 11th in the main event at the WSOP.
• 2001: Legends of Poker 7-card stud, 1s
• 2002: Best All around Player at the L.A.P.C.
• 2002: Legends of Poker 2002 Event # 5 7- Card Stud, 1st
• 2002: Legends of Poker 2002 Event # Omaha Hi/Lo, 1st
• 2002: Legends of Poker 2002 Event # Omaha Hi/Lo split, 2nd
• 2002: Legends of Poker 2002 Event # No Limit Holdem, 1st
• 2002: Hall of Fame Poker Classic, Limit Holdem, 1st
• 2002: Four Queens Poker Classic, Limit Holdem, 2nd
• 2002: World Series of Poker, Limit Hold 'em Shootout, 6th
• 2004: Orleans Open, No-Limit Hold'em Championship, 6th
• 2004: Championship Poker at the Plaza, No-Limit Hold'em, 1st
• 2004: Party Poker Million III, LHE CS Final Day, 2nd
• 2004: Caribbean Adventure, No-Limit Hold'em, 3rd
• 2003: World Series of Poker, S.H.O.E, 1st

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Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Negreanu

http://www.poker.com/poker-pros/daniel-kidpoker-negreanu-poker-pro.htm

Betsafe acquires Propaganda Poker

-This transaction will bring more benefits through much wider offers, better customer support and EU license gaming.

Propaganda Poker will be an external partner to Betsafe, our new partner, following a structural deal concluded on October 5. The ownership of Propaganda Poker’s customer base will be transferred to Betsafe, which means there will be plenty of benefits for the customers.

All players in the Propaganda Poker customer base will of course be more than welcome to follow in the move, but the final decision will rest with them. There will be lots of benefits for the players who do make the transition, especially for most players in the EU area who will be able to claim their winnings tax-free since Betsafe is registered on Malta and deal with tax issues there.

Betsafe has many more customers than Propaganda Poker and offer more services such as casino and sports betting apart from poker. The combined forces of the two companies will mean that players have better access to more promotions, bigger tournaments and a faster and wider array of payment solutions.

Betsafe has approximately 250,000 registered players and is a part of the Ongame network, which is the second largest online poker network while Propaganda Poker is part of the Ipoker network.

“We will now have the possibility to offer our players a bigger and wider assortment of offers with Betsafe. Betsafe is also a serious and logical partner for us as they are well equipped when it comes to payment solutions and they can provide support in several languages. Propaganda Poker’s role in the new setup will be as an external cooperation partner who will deliver strong marketing for Betsafe and scout affiliates all over the world,” said Raymond Hope, CEO of Propaganda Poker.

“The cooperation will benefit all parties and markets as Propaganda Poker is specialized in poker while we at Betsafe have a bit wider focus. Propaganda is historically biggest in Russia, the Baltics, followed by Germany and France. This complements us nicely since we are big in Scandinavia but also in Latvia where we are growing,” said Henrik Persson Ekdahl.

For more information: support@propagandapoker.com

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Resource:
05-Oct-2009
http://www.propagandapoker.com/

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Tilt is bad

At the start of my career the biggest problem for me was my temper. As you probably already know with a temper; tilting will most likely come as a bonus.

You can, with pretty simple means, counteract this evil phenomenon. One short but effective advice would be to do something else as soon as you feel that your game is affected in a negative way. However I want to point out that it might be - pretty simple means - but you have to be consistent and it might take some time to erase those bad habits.

You can read more on this topic below.

http://www.flopturnriver.com/Avoiding-Tilt.html

http://www.tightpoker.com/articles/stay_off_tilt.html

http://www.pokerjesusonline.com/tilt.htm

Choose your poker opponents

The importance of choosing your poker tables wisely is crucial when you playing to win in the long run. You need to be able to spot the fish. Some easy targets to look for when choosing tables would be high percentage of players seeing the flop and also high avarage pot.

Good luck at the tables!

Have a goal in mind when playing poker

One big mistake that I did when I first started playing poker was not to have a goal in mind. I can see now that if I would have placed a cake in the horizon I would have had far greater success in the early stages of my poker career.

The chapter Building Your Bankroll in the book High Stakes Poker: The Sky is the limit by Doug Youngs covers the whole idea. The goal of this is to get your focus on the main part of poker - the long run is what counts.

A great way to is to take 10% of all your winnings and place it on a seperate bank account. You can see those 10% as an insurance fund wich you will only use in case of emergency. You will then notice how your bankroll will grow even though you have bad sessions for days, weeks or even months!