The Most Famous
POKER PLAYERS from Canada
This page contains a list of the greatest Canadian Poker Players. The pantheon dataset contains 15 Poker Players, 1 of which were born in Canada. This makes Canada the birth place of the 3rd most number of Poker Players behind United States, and China.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Canadian Poker Players of all time. This list of famous Canadian Poker Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Daniel Negreanu (b. 1974)
With an HPI of 48.59, Daniel Negreanu is the most famous Canadian Poker Player. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Daniel Negreanu (; born July 26, 1974) is a Canadian professional poker player who has won seven World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles. In 2014, independent poker ranking service Global Poker Index recognized Negreanu as the best poker player of the previous decade. As of 2024, he is the seventh-biggest live tournament poker winner of all time. He was named the WSOP Player of the Year in 2004 and 2013, making him the only player to receive the accolade more than once. He was also the 2004–2005 WPT Player of the Year. He is the first player to make a final table at each of the three WSOP bracelet-awarding locations (Las Vegas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific), and the first to win a bracelet at each. In 2014, he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Canadian poker players born between 1974 and 1974. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Canadian poker players include Daniel Negreanu.
