He hopes to start a family in the coming years and said the split with PokerStars is just part of his "life taking on a new direction." "I'm super excited about the future with my new woman," he said. Daniel Negreanu and PokerStars, synonymous for the past 12 years, are parting ways.

On April 15, 2011, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York seized and shut down Pokerstars and several of its competitors' sites, alleging that the sites were violating federal bank fraud and money laundering laws.