No Joke, millions of players want to be the next "star" in poker, but here is a short rundown on four of the more well known "nice guys" of poker. Although "nice" is associated with their names when you are at a poker table it’s "no more Mr. Nice guy" until they have put you out of the game!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tourney payouts added up to more than four and a half million dollars and he came away with 2 immensely admired awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Tourney Player of the Year. In Feb 2006 he was appointed Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. He still has the humility to talk to his fans about how they will be able to improve their own game.
Howard Lederer
Called "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His success has lead to him making an instructional poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and also holding a tournament poker show for Fox. As of Two Thousand and Five, his complete life time winnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scott is one of the most active players in professional poker and between 2000 and Two Thousand and Four he finished in the money in excess of 100 competitions. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker games and also coined the phrase "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a especially bad defeat. As of 2006, his life time earnings are just about 6 million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has won 5 World Series of Poker titles with two of his wins coming in Two Thousand and Three. Chris has the alias "Jesus" due to his trademark long hair and beard, and is able to throw playing cards quick enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of Two Thousand and Five his total live poker tourney winnings exceeded five million dollars.