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Four of Poker’s Nice Guys
No Joke, millions and millions of players strive to be the next "mega star" in poker, but here is a short rundown on 4 of the more famous "nice players" of the game. Although "nice" is connected with their names when you are playing them it is "no more Mr. Nice guy" until they have put you out of the game!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tournament payouts amounted to in the region of four and a half million dollars and he attained 2 immensely respected awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Tourney Player of the Year. In February 2006 he was chosen Card Player’s Favourite Poker Player. He even still has the decency to talk with his fans about how they could boost their own game.
Howard Lederer
Referred to as "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His accomplishments have lead to him making an instructional video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and co hosting a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of 2005, his complete life winnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scotty is one of the busiest players in professional poker and between Two Thousand and 2004 he ranked in the money in well over 100 tournaments. 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 loss. As of 2006, his life time earnings are just about 6 million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has captured five World Series of Poker titles with two of his successes coming in 2003. Chris has the alias "Jesus" due to 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 poker tournament winnings exceeded $5 million.
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