A Couple of of Poker’s Great Players
by Bo on Wednesday, January 4th, 2017
Beyond a doubt millions of individuals strive to be the next "mega star" in poker, but here is a short list of four of the more noteworthy "charming pros" of the game. Despite the fact that "nice" is connected with their names when you are facing them it is "no more Mr. Nice guy" until they have put you out of the competition!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tourney winnings added up to in excess of 4.4 million dollars and he won two immensely respected awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Tournament Player of the Year. In Feb Two Thousand and Six he was chosen Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. He even still has the humility to speak to his fans about how they will be able to advance their own game.
Howard Lederer
Referred to as "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His accomplishments have allowed him to make an instructional poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and co holding a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of Two Thousand and Five, his complete life time earnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scott is one of the busiest players in professional poker and from Two Thousand to 2004 he placed in the money in more than one hundred competitions. He’s notorious for saying "yeah baby" during poker matches and also credited with the term "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a particularly bad defeat. As of 2006, his life time earnings are just about $6 million.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has won five WSOP titles with 2 of his successes coming in 2003. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" because of his characteristic long hair and beard, and is able to toss cards fast enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of 2005 his total live poker tourney earnings exceeded 5 million dollars.
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