Daniel Negreanu Reveals His 2022 Poker Earnings And How This Year Compared To The Past

Daniel Negreanu is one of the most successful professional poker tournament players in history, both in terms of cashes and results.

Negreanu has earned nearly $50 million in live poker events throughout his career. He ranks 3rd on the all-time money list for live poker tournament earnings, based on TheHendonMob database, with $49,925,002 in career poker earnings.

Daniel Negreanu’s biggest live poker tournament cash to date was a $8,288,001 win in the ‘$1 Million No-Limit Hold’em Big One for One Drop’ 2014 World Series of Poker. That was a $1 million buy-in event Negreanu won $8.288M in after finishing in second place to Daniel Colman who earned $15,306,668 for first.

Now that the 2022 poker season is over, Daniel Negreanu shared his 2022 winnings along with how this year has compared to his results in previous years. On average, the ‘Kid Poker’ or ‘Dnegs’ is winning $1,459,695 at the tables each year since 2013. Not too shabby:

2013 +$1,963,500
2014 +$7,100,164
2015 +$952,920
2016 -$1,246,693
2017 -$86,140
2018 +$1,412,053
2019 +$831,891
2020 Covid
2021 +$584,023
2022 +$1,625,545

Total: +$13,137,263
Avg: +$1,459,695

2/3

— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) December 26, 2022

Daniel noted that those numbers are just based on results/what was paid out. That’s not including the tournaments where he sold a % of his buy-in to people staking him, nor did it include taxes or expenses.

These numbers are strictly results and do not include any swaps, selling to fans, taxes, or expenses

3/3

— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) December 26, 2022

PokerGo reporter Jeff Platt joked about ‘Troll Math’ with Daniel.

Looking at that tweet above it’s easy to miss that 2015 was a negative $1.2M year. Many people scrolling through might’ve only see the numbers and not that 2015 was a big loss:

It would be interesting to see the cash numbers as well:

His biggest cashes of 2022 was $3,312,000 on October 7th for winning the Super High Roller Bowl – $300,000 No-Limit Hold’em.

Daniel Negreanu Loses $311K In Brutal Cash Game Hand

This is a cash game. They’re playing with cash out of their own bankroll. When you see Daniel Negreanu with $223K next to his name that’s the actual amount of cash money he had on the table. Phil Ivey had $244K and Patrik Antonius was sitting with $184K.

Over his career, Daniel Negreanu has cashed in 196 World Series of Poker Las Vegas tournaments for a total of $16,886,427. His biggest cash as the 2022 World Series of Poker was $88,081 in the Online Event #8: $7,777 Lucky 7’s NL Hold’em High Roller. Even with an ‘off year’ at the WSOP by his standards, Daniel still finished 62nd in the WSOP Player of the Year standings.

Negreanu had a solid November and finished 4th in the WSOPE Event #8: No-Limit Hold’em Platinum High Roller event. He cashed for €146,370.

Away from the felt, Daniel Negreanu has some fun stories about winning tons of cash. He once won $550,000 in a round of golf that all came down to a final putt. He told that story back in 2019 on the No Laying Up podcast:

“My golf game was not very good. The back tees at TPC Summerlin is about 7,000 yards. I can’t hit a driver more than 230, so I don’t hit any of the greens from back there. I bet them that if they gave me a year, I could shoot 80 from the back tees there.

So I’m drunk and we’re all drinking and I bet $550,000 on this. But I get as many rounds as I need.

So with about a month to spare, I go out there and [score] 110… 108… 106. OK, that’s my first three rounds, and I have a month. So we woke up at 7 a.m. every day, we practiced for an hour, played 18, practiced for another hour, played 18, played 9 more and then practiced again. So I would go from 7 a.m. to about 8 p.m. every day.

Within about a week, I was shooting low 90s. Maybe a week later, mid to high 80s. And with about a week and a half to spare, actually, I was 2-under after nine. So then all the carts started coming out, because they were like ‘oh boy, here he comes.’

There was probably 60 golf carts on the last three holes, sweating me. And so, in the last three holes, I needed to go bogey-bogey-bogey to win the bet. They were the three toughest holes, also. The first one is the easiest of the three, so I of course double-bogey that.

Now I need to par one of the last two, and I make par on [17]. And then I have a six-footer for all of the money to win. I’m actually a good putter, but this putt – I hit the putt, and as I hit the putt, my knees sort of fell to the ground, in a way, but somehow the ball went in and I made it.”

In that same interview, Negreanu revealed he once lost $1.2 million to Phil Ivey in a round of golf at Shadow Creek.