Daniel Negreanu Reaches $50 Million in Live Earnings; How much did he really earn?

January 22, 2023

Daniel Negreanu He finished third in a tournament on Thursday for $124,000 PokerGO Cup $25,000 purchase. In doing so, he became the third player to reach the 50 million cash mark in a live tournament.

According to Ambassador Hendon Mob GGPoker he now has $50,116,496 in winnings under his belt. Alone Bryn Kenney ($57,221,865) and Justin Bonomo ($58,954,124) has more. Stephen Chidwick is currently in fourth place with $44,665,132, second place Eric Seidel He took second place in the PokerGO Cup for $42,441,244.

Negreanu finished third in tournament #7, a no-limit hold’em event, a day after checking in eighth place in tournament #6, as well as in the NLH tournament ($50,000).

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How much is his $50 million poker win really worth?

Hendon Mob is the main database for tournament results, but since it is almost impossible to calculate profits, the data only includes cash. But Negreanu has always been open with his results. During his annual vlogs World Series of Pokerhe keeps track of his gains and losses throughout the summer.

Last year, he easily lost $1.1 million and failed to win a bracelet for the ninth year in a row. His sixth and final WSOP title came in 2013 WSOP Europe and he hasn’t won a bracelet in Las Vegas since 2008.

Last month, the Poker Hall of Famer shared his earnings total since 2013. According to his estimates, he has earned just over $13 million over those nine years (excluding 2020). due to COVID).

These $1 million or even $50,000 tournaments didn’t even exist in the 2000s. Today, high roller tournaments are countless. Negreanu said WSOP buy-ins totaled $20.5 million from 2013 to 2022, or an annual average of $2 million. In recent years, he has limited his tournament activity to WSOP and World Cup events. World Poker Tour In Las Vegas as well as tournaments PokerGO Tour.

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Let’s take a look at Negreanu’s career

outsideEric Seidel and Phil Hellmuthno one has been this consistent in live tournaments in the last 20 years.

A few months before his 24th birthday, he won his first WSOP bracelet in 1998, a $169,460 prize money, his first six-figure score. A year later, he won the television championship US Poker Championship Atlantic City with a $7,600 purchase for $210,000. By 2003, he had a lot of six-figure tournament winnings in 2023, which doesn’t seem like a big deal, but back then the fields were smaller and so were the buy-ins.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, banking $1 million a year was a rare feat, something only the winner of the WSOP Main Event could achieve.

When the poker boom began in the mid-2000s, payouts began to increase along with the size of the fields. There were also tournaments over $10,000 and juicier. He won two bracelets in 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2013, and was named WSOP Player of the Year in 2004 and 2013, and most recently in 2019. results are not recalculated.

The tournament landscape has changed for high-stakes players, and so have Negreanu’s winnings. He began playing regularly in $25,000+ tournaments, mostly in smaller events, but against the best players in the world. Except for 2016 and the year of COVID (2020), he has earned more than $1 million every year since 2011 and 14 times in his lifetime.

In October 2022, he achieved his second highest score — 3.3 million dollars – by winning Super high roller bowl A $300,000 shopping spree in Las Vegas, the only city where he plays poker today.

A third of Negreanu’s total winnings have come in just five tournaments (see below). But even without those tournaments, he still won $33 million, which would have put him in the top 15 of all time on the Hendon Mob leaderboard.

Negreanu’s five greatest results