Canadian-born Daniel Negreanu is celebrating his first Thanksgiving as an American citizen this year. The 2016 Presidential Election results notwithstanding, as arguably the games most successful player, greatest ambassador and an outspoken liberal, it would seem there's still a lot he can be thankful for.
Negreanu has made the most of the opportunities poker has provided him. He rode the wave of poker's boom to fame and fortune the size of which not even the fortune teller who told him he'd one day find it could have predicted. But it didn't always feel that way.
Negreanu had chosen poker as a profession long before Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event and the popularity of the World Poker Tour exploded on TV screens across America.