Literally millions and millions of players strive to be the next "big-time thing" in poker, but here is a short list of 4 of the more famous "great guys" of poker. Granted "nice" is associated with their names when you are sitting accross the table from 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 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 Tournament Player of the Year. In Feb 2006 he was named Card Player’s Favourite Poker Player. He even still has the humility to speak with his admirers about how they can boost their own game.
Howard Lederer
Called "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His accomplishments have lead to him making an instructional poker video named "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and co holding a tournament poker show for Fox. As of 2005, his total life time earnings surpass 2.7 million dollars.
Scotty Nguyen
Scott is one of the most active players in professional poker and between 2000 and Two Thousand and Four he finished in the money in more than 100 tournaments. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker games and also coined the term "that’s poker baby" when referring to a particularly bad loss. As of Two Thousand and Six, his career winnings are just about $6 million.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has won five WSOP titles with 2 of his successes coming in Two Thousand and Three. Chris has the alias "Jesus" due to his trademark long hair and beard, along with his ability to throw playing cards fast enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of 2005 his total live poker tourney earnings exceeded five million dollars.
