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Literally huge amounts of players want to be the next "star" in poker, but here is a short rundown on 4 of the more well known "nice players" of poker. Although "nice" is connected with their names when you are sitting accross the table from them it’s "no more Mr. Nice guy" up until they have removed you out of the competition!

Daniel Negreanu

In 2004, his tournament earnings added up to more than 4.4 million dollars and he captured 2 highly admired awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Competition Player of the Year. In Feb 2006 he was appointed Card Player’s Favourite Poker Player. He still has the decency to speak with his fans about how they will be able to improve their own game.

Howard Lederer

Called "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His success has lead to him making an instructional poker video named "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and also hosting a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of 2005, his total life time earnings exceed $2.7 million.

Scotty Nguyen

Scotty is 1 of the busiest players in professional poker and from Two Thousand and 2004 he ranked in the money in excess of 100 competitions. He is noted for saying "yeah baby" during poker games and also coined the phrase "that’s poker baby" when referring to a especially bad loss. As of Two Thousand and Six, his life time earnings are almost 6 million dollars.

Chris Ferguson

Chris has earned five WSOP titles with two of his successes happening in Two Thousand and Three. Chris has the alias "Jesus" as a result of his trademark long hair and beard, and is able to throw playing cards quick enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of 2005 his total live poker tournament earnings exceeded five million dollars.