4 of Poker’s Charming Players
No Joke, huge amounts of people are trying to be the next "star" in poker, but here is a short list of four of the more noteworthy "nice guys" of the game. Despite the fact that "nice" is associated 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 tournament payouts added up to in the region of $4.4 million and he attained two highly respected awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Competition Player of the Year. In Feb 2006 he was named Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. He still has the decency to speak to his admirers about how they might boost their own game.
Howard Lederer
Referred to as "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His success has lead to him making an instructional video named "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and also hosting a tournament poker show for Fox. As of 2005, his total life time winnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scotty is 1 of the most active players in poker and from Two Thousand and Two Thousand and Four he placed in the money in excess of one hundred events. He’s notorious for saying "yeah baby" during poker games and also coined the phrase "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a especially bad defeat. As of Two Thousand and Six, his life time winnings are almost $6 million.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has earned five WSOP titles with two of his successes happening in Two Thousand and Three. Chris has the alias "Jesus" because of his trademark long hair and beard, along with his ability to throw playing cards quick enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of 2005 his total live poker tourney earnings exceeded 5 million dollars.