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Beyond a doubt countless of players strive to be the next "big-time thing" in poker, but here is a short list of four of the more well known "nice pros" of the game. Although "nice" is associated with their names when you are playing them it is "no more Mr. Nice guy" up until they have removed you out of the game!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tournament payouts amounted to in excess of four and a half million dollars and he captured two highly admired awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Competition Player of the Year. In Feb Two Thousand and Six he was chosen Card Player’s Favourite Poker Player. Daniel even still has the humility to speak with his admirers about how they can improve their own game.
Howard Lederer
Known as "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His accomplishments have allowed him to make an instructional poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and also holding a tournament poker show for Fox. As of 2005, his complete life time winnings surpass 2.7 million dollars.
Scotty Nguyen
Scott is one of the most active players in professional poker and between 2000 to Two Thousand and Four he finished in the money in excess of one hundred tournaments. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" during poker matches and also credited with the term "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a particularly bad defeat. As of 2006, his life time earnings are just about $6 million.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has captured 5 World Series of Poker titles with two of his successes happening in Two Thousand and Three. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" as a result of his trademark long hair and beard, that, and along with his ability to toss cards fast enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of Two Thousand and Five his total poker tourney winnings exceeded five million dollars.
