- The Wynn Casino has hired Negreanu to play heads up poker with anyone that is willing to sit down with $500,000. The opponent picks one of nine poker games to play Negreanu. Fellow poker pro Barry Greenstein has been the challenger on multiple occasions.
- Won the 2004 Borgata Poker Open event while holding the best starting hand in Texas Hold 'Em, Pocket Aces.
- The Wynn Las Vegas Resort Casino which opened in April of 2005 hired him to be their Poker Ambassador.
- 2004 World Series of Poker player of the year.
- As of November 2005, He has won 2 world poker tour events, for winnings totaling over 2 million dollars.
- Both parents are Romanian.
- After his father passed, his mother came to Las Vegas so often to watch him play, he bought her a house there.
- Considers himself a numbers geek.
- As of 2015, he has 6 World Series of Poker bracelets, 2 World Poker Tour titles, number 1 on the all-time money list, won the World Series of Poker Player of the Year twice.
- Didn't graduate from high school.
- Mother had 9 miscarriages.
- Winner of both the 2004 Borgata Poker Open and the 2004 Five Diamond World Poker Classic events on the World Poker Tour (2003).
- First event he played on television was in 1999 at The Mirage casino in Atlantic City.
- Played pool socially before playing poker professionally.
- Was given the nickname "Kidpoker" when he played against older pokers when first started playing poker in casinos and private clubs in the beginning part of his career.
- Was encouraged to play in his first World Series of Poker tournament by Todd Brunson.
- Inducted into the Poker of Fame by Hall of Famer Doyle Brunson in 2014.
- Good friends with fellow professional poker players Jen Harman, Phil Ivey, Allen Cunningham, John Juanda.
- Permanently moved to Las Vegas in January 2000.
- Father was an electrician.
- The youngest player to win the World Series of Poker.
- International poker player expert.
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