A Couple of of Poker’s Nice Pros
by Bo on Saturday, March 18th, 2017
Literally millions of individuals want to be the next "star" in poker, but here is a short rundown on four of the more noteworthy "charming guys" of the game. Granted "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 2004, his tournament payouts amounted to more than $4.4 million and he captured two immensely admired awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Tourney Player of the Year. In February Two Thousand and Six he was appointed Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. Daniel still has the decency to talk with his admirers about how they could advance their own game.
Howard Lederer
Known as "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His achievements have allowed him to make an instructional poker video named "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and co hosting a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of 2005, his complete life time winnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scott is 1 of the most active players in professional poker and between 2000 and 2004 he ranked in the money in well over 100 competitions. He is noted for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker matches and also coined the phrase "that’s poker baby" when referring to a exceptionally bad loss. As of 2006, his career earnings are just about 6 million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has captured 5 World Series of Poker titles with two of his successes happening in Two Thousand and Three. Has the alias "Jesus" as a result of his characteristic long hair and beard, that, and along with his ability to throw cards fast enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of 2005 his total poker tourney winnings exceeded $5 million.
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