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NHL ace in the hole for Kid Poker

Oh, to be Daniel Negreanu.

There he is on Twitter, poker face put away for the night, dancing half naked in a gay bar in North Carolina with a gorgeous ex-girlfriend.

Life is a straight flush for Kid Poker.

Not to mention, he just added $63,647 to his $30 million in tournament earnings, tops in history.

You know you’re doing just fine when $63,647 — for sixth place in an Asheville, N.C. tourney — is petty cash.

Best of all, Daniel Negreanu, 41, is living the dream of every all-Canadian boy who ever grew up in North York:

“The idea of owning a piece of an NHL team is the coolest thing ever,” he tells me while cracking open a deck at Real Sports bar near the ACC.