Beyond a doubt huge amounts of players strive to be the next "mega star" in poker, but here is a short rundown on four of the more well known "great guys" of poker. Even though "nice" is connected with their names when you are playing them it is "no more Mr. Nice guy" up until they have put you out of the competition!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tournament payouts amounted to in excess of $4.4 million and he won 2 immensely respected awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Competition Player of the Year. In February 2006 he was chosen Card Player’s Favourite Poker Player. He even still has the decency to talk to his admirers about how they can improve their own game.
Howard Lederer
Called "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His achievements have lead to him making an instructional video named "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and also 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 from Two Thousand and Two Thousand and Four he ranked in the money in well over 100 competitions. He’s notorious for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker games and also credited with the term "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a exceptionally bad defeat. As of Two Thousand and Six, his career earnings are just about six million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has earned 5 WSOP titles with 2 of his successes coming in Two Thousand and Three. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" because of his characteristic long hair and beard, and is able to toss playing cards quick enough to cut through pickles and bananas. As of Two Thousand and Five his total poker tourney winnings exceeded $5 million.