latest poker series with daniel negreanu

In November 2006, it migrated to the Digital Gaming Network.

The passing of the UIGEA made things a lot more complicated and in June of 2007, Negreanu signed with PokerStars.”įullContactPoker was an Ongame Network site until around the time of the UIGEA. As iGaming narrated, “Most of members were based in the United States. Negreanu’s FullContactPoker ceased being a real money poker site in 2007 and is now used as the Canadian’s personal blog and sounding board. Nearly immediately after it was signed into law, sites like PartyPoker, then the largest room in the world, withdrew from the US market. The UIGEA prohibited payments from US financial institutions to “unlawful internet gambling” sites, but failed to define what the critical three-word term meant.

It took all of six months for Negreanu to receive an offer of around $170 million to unload his site and, as he recalled, “The offer was so big we called it ‘game over money.’ We were all very excited about it and about a week later this little thing called the UIGEA came into play.” It reached a point where I would do up to 50 radio interviews in one day all across the United States and Canada.” Negreanu said he was a one-man marketing machine for FullContactPoker, noting, “Over time, I had built a lot of good relationships with people that I could reach out to for some extra exposure. I saw this as a great opportunity to invest some money and create something, my own poker site.” Negreanu told iGaming, “In the beginning, there were a lot of sites popping up out of nowhere.

However, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), passed in 2006, thwarted the deal. In an interview that appeared on as part of a series, Daniel Negreanu (pictured), now the front man for PokerStars, the largest online poker site in the world, revealed that he had an offer to sell his old for-money room, FullContactPoker, for $170 million.

Latest poker series with daniel negreanu