Daniel Negreanu Archive

Daniel Negreanu’s modern-day advice for making the bubble in a live multi-table tournament. Yesterday, we began a discussion on the expert tournament strategy of Canada’s most successful MTT professional, Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu. The first edition covers his words of wisdom for the earliest stages of a multi-table tournament (MTT). If you missed it,...

Canada’s poker mastermind, Daniel Negreanu, gives his perspective on early stage live poker tournament strategy. Being Canadian, and having a true love for the game of poker, there’s no one’s opinion I respect more than that of Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu. (Except my mother’s, of course!) For many years, up until July 2018, Negreanu...

The easiest poker tells to read and what they represent. See that picture on the right? That’s Daniel Negreanu, the world famous Canadian poker pro. He’s known for a lot of things, like being the second-highest cashing live tournament player of all time. He’s also one of the best tell-readers ever to exist, and...

6+ Hold’em games sweep the online poker community. There’s a new poker game around the barnyard these days. It goes by a variety of names. Some call it Short Deck Poker. Others know it as 6+ Hold’em, or 36-Card Poker. Whatever you want to call it, it’s already earned its rightful place in the...

The lowest poker rake isn’t always the best choice. Wait, what? Did I read that right? Yes, you did. The lowest rake isn’t always the best rake. Sometimes, a higher poker rake is actually better. How could this be? It’s a situational thing, really. It depends greatly on injecting a few variables into the...

How to train and enhance your poker mindset. Poker is a simple game to learn, but near-impossible to master. Those who do master the game eventually find, as the years go by, that new skill sets are superseding their once-effective tactics. A classic game with ever-evolving strategies, no one has ever stayed on top...

Game Theory Optimal: The New Canadian Poker Way? There have been countless effective poker strategies utilized by the top pros since the dawn of card games. If there’s one thing most professionals can agree on, it’s that the efficacy of each strategy only possess a limited life span. Once the younger generation figures it...

If ever there were such a thing as a perfect poker player, Fedor Holz would win that title, too… In the realm of professional poker, there’s a basic order of steps in which most excel at the game. They start young. They have early luck, then overplay their hand and learn the hard way...

Let’s face it—Canadian poker players are among the best pros in the world. They may not make up the majority of the world’s professionals, but they sure do have a great ROI. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the statistics. Who spent the last several years atop the totem pole of the all time money list?...

Sam Greenwood of Toronto, Ontario does not consider himself a professional poker player. But by any knowledgeable definition of the term, he most certainly is. When he collected his first WSOP bracelet in 2015, he called himself a “poker enthusiast”, and “an entrepreneur”. Yet by then, he already had more than US-$1.7 million in...