Beyond a doubt millions and millions of individuals strive to be the next "big-time thing" in poker, but here is a short rundown on 4 of the more famous "nice pros" of poker. Despite the fact that "nice" is connected with their names when you are at a poker table it’s "no more Mr. Nice guy" until they have removed you out of the game!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his competition payouts added up to in the region of 4.4 million dollars and he won 2 immensely admired awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Competition Player of the Year. In February 2006 he was appointed Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. He still has the humility to talk with his admirers about how they will be able to boost their own game.
Howard Lederer
Called "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His success has lead to him making an educational poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and co hosting a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of Two Thousand and Five, his total life winnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scotty is one of the busiest players in poker and between Two Thousand to 2004 he ranked in the money in well over one hundred competitions. He’s notorious for saying "yeah baby" during poker matches and also coined the phrase "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a particularly bad loss. As of Two Thousand and Six, his life time winnings are just about 6 million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has captured five World Series of Poker titles with two of his wins coming in 2003. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" because of his characteristic long hair and beard, and is able to toss playing cards fast enough to slice through pickles and bananas. As of Two Thousand and Five his total live poker tourney earnings exceeded 5 million dollars.
