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A Couple of of Poker’s Nice Guys

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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