Daniel Negreanu's very own containment thread. All things Danny go here

What did Elezra do? I am aware of each of the others.

eli owes a lot of money to a bunch of people, there's a few threads about it

also, he made his money in a very shady way, back in the days before digital cameras, he owned a bunch of 1hr photo development places all over vegas that advertised very low rates, tourists would come in and then when they went to pickup be handed a much higher bill due to fine print, and then they'd have the option to either pay the exorbitant rate or forever lose their vacation photos

total scumbag but of course super welcome in the high stakes poker community because donators like him were what those games revolved around

If he wins this $10k LHE event, he’ll only be -$100k for the series!

Man his table is a blast from the past eh? Gus, ivey, negreanu, and arieh playing 7 handed. Pretty sick...too bad I left today or id go check that out.

Daniel busted 13th for $21,000.

The following is a make or break event for Daniel.

DNegs has entered WSOP Event #41: $250,000 No-Limit Hold'em Super High Roller with one Re-Entry available.

Hopefully this event gets some hefty TV coverage.

Someone could do the math (although itd be somewhat incomplete) and figure out if Daniel is up or down since say ...2004? And figure out if hes likely up or down.

My initial thought is because of the 8 million score in 2014 hes up but those 100k and 250k rebuys add up.

Not to hate on him, but just curious due to his sponsorship money its impossible to figure out if a guy like him, who's deemed successful, really makes a living.

He’s up

Since 2004, likely yes but the info from back then is not publicly available so who knows.

Since his big score in 2014 he is down. Which makes him a losing player in the last 12 years.

According to DNegs, Jesse Lonis doesnt study GTO. I find this highly unbelievable. Is this something Jesse has claimed himself?

Also again he goes off about how he "deserves" to crack KK with AT in the high roller, with a straight face claiming that he is one of the unluckiest players on the scene. Its incredible how deluded he is. Hes literally the absolute luckiest player in poker of all time in terms of having sun run at the right time, and its not even close.

Since 2004 it’s not “likely yes” it’s unequivocally yes as he won several big tournaments in that era and there weren’t any high rollers. Everyone always likes to “start the clock” since “his big score” but that’s not really a fair treatment as tournament poker is about the big score.

It might not even be accurate that he’s down since then. A few years ago we had same exact discussion where someone said since his big score he was only up a 1.8M or something over past ten years or so. But to be fair can’t ignore he only works 3-4 months out of the year probably.

At least 90% of poker players think they are the unluckiest player in the game.

Most players arent sitting on multi million yearly deals with poker sites.

What are you even talking about? Is it absolutely accurate he is down since then (although not massively down, it is about 2 mil). He has been publishing his results every year since 2015.

This was 2013-2023. Couldn’t find anything after.

YearResult (in USD)
2013+$1,963,500
2014+$7,100,164
2015+$952,920
2016-$1,246,693
2017-$86,640
2018+$1,412,053
2019+$831,891
2021+$584,023
2022+$1,625,545
2023-$2,228,174
TOTAL+$10,908,589

See below, looks like you are wrong unless he lost 2M in both 2024 and 2025. But that seems unlikely since he won the 50K PPC and runner up in 10K O8. My memory was correct in that was last numbers I remember seeing and he was “only” up close to 2M over that time

But we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that ignoring that big score isn’t an intelligent idea to begin with.

He's basically had "new pro smell" for 30 years.

We've all seen young kids sun run for a few months when they start out. Since they've never run bad they think the way they're running is normal. So when they lose a few flips, or lose an 80/20 they think it's some great injustice and can't handle it. He's ran so far above ev poker wise in every way possible that he thinks losing 3 or 4 flips in a row or god forbid kk to ax makes him the unluckiest player in poker.

This is almost correct, so just for the sake of getting Scotchontherocks up to date:

in 2021, he conveniently left out the part where he lost $1,201,807 to Polk in their HU match.

2024: claimed to have been "almost a million dollars down for the year". Trackable results were -$1,114,183 across WSOP in Vegas and Bahamas combined.

2025: No final tally confirmed by him but adds up to -$262,903 across WSOP Vegas and Bahamas.

2026 (so far): -$611,971
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So since 2014, we have a net result of roughly negative 1-1.1million. My previous claim of 2 mil was a bit off, i admit.

Add expenses like flights, accomodations etc and this insufferable narcissist would be bunking up next to Matusow and beating up on Vegas tourists in the $100 daily turbos for a living - if there were no PS and GG sponsorships.

WSOP Day 20 -$611,971

This number will come way down if he cashes the $250,000 Super High Roller.

This didn't age well

There’s nothing convenient about Polk, these are tournament results. But what is convenient is you taking away that 2014 1M One Drop Cash but incorporating into your numbers the 2018 event where he played but did not cash.

While it could be true you might have to link up where he states 2024 net. He safely had over 2M in cashes.

It’s clear that you don’t like him but it would take a very low IQ individual to label him as a losing player and actually believe it. The only real reason why he plays the 100K and 250Ks are probably due to that 2014 One Drop and sponsorship, the stuff you have wave away.

No it didn't.

I'm not one to push back on anyone saying Negreanu is a losing player, but I'm glad you caught this.

In fact, don't the vlog totals only show his WSOP results, specifically? Sure, that's almost all of his action now that he doesn't travel the circuit anymore, but I seem to recall the number at the end of each episode representing only the Series. Could be wrong, and I'll admit to being too lazy to go back and look up past series.

Props to all of you still watching the vlog, by the way. As I say all the time, I'm neither a hater nor a fan, but I had to stop watching the vlog after a few episodes this year. (The last one I watched had some woman named Diane sitting next to him, which was actually one of the highlights.)

The sponsored reads and/or shilling, at home with the dogs or with Amanda, the gobbledygook away from the felt, I've always just skipped over that stuff. But the hand breakdowns, or perhaps my tolerance of them, are getting worse. They sound like the gigantic rationalizations we pleb recs – sorry, I meant "the people" – make. Any one of these things would not get me to stop watching, but the sum total of it makes me just want to watching something else.

We need AI to generate a bald version of him. So we can tag his socials whenever possible.