Daniel Negreanu Wins Three Hundred Grand in a Week

Daniel Negreanu dresses like this even when he plays online.

There are many who say Daniel Negreanu is a dinosaur, one of the old generation of pros who’ve been eclipsed by the new online poker wunderkinds. They say that the old guard is doomed to slowly slip into obscurity, surpassed by a new generation of Tom Dwans.

But then the old relic goes and has a week like this. In the last five days, Negreanu is up $332,770, playing $100/$200 No Limit Hold’Em. And he’s doing it online, where some of those aging dinosaurs fear to tread. In fact, Daniel has recently made a concerted effort to improve his online game, with the hopes that it will prevent him from actually becoming that obsolete old-timer that some say he already is. And not only might it make his game better, he also doesn’t have to worry about anyone wearing sunglasses when he plays on the net.

Up until this week, he’d been trending down for the last year, at least in online action. But his 1/3rd of a million dollar win puts him back into profits for 2010. And combine that with his second-place finish at last year’s WSOP-Europe Main Event, and a few decent results at the recently-ended 2010 WSOP, and Negreanu’s game isn’t looking too shabby.