I-play signed up Daniel Negreanu as the face of its suite of mobile entertainment poker products, which include a streaming video poker application and mobile poker game.
The 100+ streaming poker clips were shot at the Venetian Hotel & Resort in Las Vegas and cover everything from the basic fundamentals of the game right through to more advanced topics such as tournament play, no-limit strategy and tells/bluffs, all presented by Daniel Negreanu himself.
I-play and Daniel are also creating a next generation mobile poker game, the Artificial Intelligence behind which is being tested against Negreanu. The game promises strong visuals and is scheduled for launch later this year.
Daniel Negreanu has been consistently winning poker tournaments since the age of 23 and has accumulated over 36 world-wide poker victories along the way. He has also been one of the most highly visible young poker stars appearing regularly on the Travel Channel, Fox Sports Network, Game Show Network and ESPN. In addition, he writes a nationally syndicated newspaper column, authored the book Hold’em Wisdom for All Players, was a contributing author for Doyle Brunson’s book Super System 2, and appears as a regular poker columnist in Card Player Magazine.
In 1998, he earned the title of “youngest World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion,” a designation he held until 2004. That same year, Negreanu made 11 final tournament tables, won two World Poker Tour (WPT) events, and won his third World Series of Poker bracelet in Limit Hold'em all in 2004. His career tournament winnings top $9.6 million dollars, which puts him in the top three poker players worldwide in terms of earnings. Daniel’s professional accolades include being named the 2004 Card Player Magazine Player of the Year, 2004 ESPN World Series of Poker (WSOP) Player of the Year, and 2004-05 World Poker Tour (WPT) Player of the Year.
Daniel Negreanu commented: “Poker is a game that everyone should be able to enjoy whenever and wherever they are, so launching a mobile game is a dream come true. I hope that poker players everywhere will be able to share my passion, get more from their experience of poker from my hot tips on the poker mobile video, as well as improve their game on the poker mobile game.”
According to Negreanu the most promising feature of the mobile poker application is a special add-on module where Negreanu teaches players how to lay down a good but still second-best hand.