Daniel Negreanu is one of the best tournament players in the game
Ranked 3rd in the all time money list with over 21 million dollars in tournament winnings. Behind Antonio Esfandiari who won the $1million dollar tournament winning over 18 million dollars in that tournament alone
and Phil Ivey ranked second arguably the best all around poker player in the world.
He is ranked #1 on
canada's all time money list (he is Canadian)
He has 6 poker bracelets 3 of which have come recently.
Daniel Negreanu was 2013's POY (Player of the year) and also got the title for the first ever Player of the decade.
As mentioned in post above Daniel Negreanu has a style of play which is now known as small ball poker in which he plays a wider range of hands from Button, Cutoff and Hijack for smaller PFR's (Pre flop raises) The strategy does a few things which includes, 1 is to win a lot of small pots and frustrate your opponents with an extremely active image, 2 is to exploitably tilt your opponents in an predictable manner to take their stack. 3. Win a lot of chips without risking many of your own.
Daniel Negreanu is also an ambassador to the game is very active with the poker community and is a fan favorite.