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The local paper where I live runs a weekly poker article written by Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu writes the article each week as if he is an expert at playing poker, especially Limit or No-Limit Hold 'Em Poker.

Negreanu writes the articles as if he is an absolute Poker expert and has all the answers to winning at Poker. How to bet? When to bet? How much to bet? Reading your opponents. It doesn't matter what the Poker topic, he has all the answers to help you win.

Is Daniel Negreanu such a great Poker player that he really does have all the answers he claims to? I decided to check out Daniel Negreanu's statistics to see if he really is a Poker Expert.

Poker players are judged by how many World Series of Poker (WSOP) wins they have. (Each tournament winner is awarded a bracelet, so the number of bracelets you have determines how good you are.) Daniel Negreanu is such an "expert" Poker player that I would have expected him to have won a great deal of these bracelets. You know how many he has? Three! And in the biggest World Series of Poker Tournament, called the Main Event, Negreanu has zero wins! He has never won the biggest Poker Tournament.

Negreanu won his first WSOP tournament in 1998. Since 1998 there have been 249 WSOP Tournaments. So, out of a possible 249 Wins since 1998, Negreanu, the supposed Poker expert with all the answers, has won 3 Tournaments. Three out of 249 possible wins, or just 1.2%. It's possible Negreanu has not played in all 249 Tournaments since 1998. But it's also likley he played in Tournaments prior to 1998, when he won his first. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say he played in 200 overall WSOP Tournaments. That bumps his winning percentage up to a whopping 1.5%.

Does a 1.5% winning percentage sound like something an expert in any field should have? One point five percent. C'Mon! If you're going to act like an expert and have all the answers can you please back it up a little!

Over the last 6 months, Negreanu wrote in his column that he would like to see the WSOP Tournaments vastly increase the amount of money each player would have to put up to enter the Tournaments. In the biggest Tournament, called the Main Event, players must put up $10,000 each to enter. Negreanu wants that raised to $50,000. Why?

By raising the amount each player must put up to play, you would exclude a vast amount of people from entering. Daniel Negreanu, the supposed Poker Expert, wants to eliminate as many competitors as he can before the first card is even dealt! Does that sound like something an Expert would want in any field? Shouldn't an expert welcome all challengers and not be afraid to face anybody?

Somebody who has won a very low percentage of the Tournaments he has entered, and wants to exclude as many players as possible from playing against him, sounds far more like a Fraud to me.

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