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No Joke, millions of individuals want to be the next "huge thing" in poker, but here is a short rundown on four of the more famous "nice pros" of the game. Granted "nice" is associated with their names when you are playing them it is "no more Mr. Nice guy" up until they have put you out of the game!

Daniel Negreanu

In Two Thousand and Four, his competition earnings added up to in excess of 4.4 million dollars and he captured two immensely admired awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Tourney Player of the Year. In February Two Thousand and Six he was chosen Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. Daniel even still has the decency to speak to his fans about how they could advance their own game.

Howard Lederer

Known as "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His success has lead to him making an educational poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and co hosting a tournament poker show for Fox. As of Two Thousand and Five, his complete life winnings exceed 2.7 million dollars.

Scotty Nguyen

Scott is one of the busiest players in professional poker and between 2000 to 2004 he finished in the money in well over one hundred events. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" during poker games and also coined the term "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a particularly bad beat. As of 2006, his career winnings are almost 6 million dollars.

Chris Ferguson

Chris has earned five WSOP titles with two of his wins coming in 2003. Chris has the alias "Jesus" as a result of his trademark long hair and beard, and is able to throw cards quick enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of Two Thousand and Five his total poker tourney winnings exceeded 5 million dollars.

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Ah, the tilt. If a poker enthusiast states never to have stared faced over the barrel of an upcoming poker tilt – they are either telling a lie or they have not been competing very long. This does not mean of course that every poker player has gone on tilt in the past, some players have excellent willpower and take their squanderings as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it’s absolutely important to approach your successes and your losses in a similar manner – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did following a hard beat as you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker pros are not enticed by tilting after a horrible beat as they are incredibly accomplished and you really should be to.

You have to understand that you can not win each hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that normally cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were until you were rivered and you burned a large portion of your bankroll. Bad losses are going to happen. Accept that idea right now, I will say it once more – if your sister enjoys cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – They have all had poor losses sometime. It’s an inevitable effect of participating in Holdem, or really any kind of poker.

Seeing as we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for one purpose – to make $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we will wager appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a big hit in a NL game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You have lost $80 in a round where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 advantage. And that amateur! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic choice for a fresh player to start tilting. They basically lost too much cash on one hand that they really should have won and they are pissed