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Literally huge amounts of people strive to be the next "big thing" in poker, but here is a short rundown on 4 of the more noteworthy "nice players" of the game. Although "nice" is associated with their names when you are facing them it’s "no more Mr. Nice guy" until they have put you out of the competition!

Daniel Negreanu

In Two Thousand and Four, his tourney earnings amounted to more than $4.4 million and he came away with two highly respected 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 named Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. Daniel still has the decency to speak with his admirers about how they could advance their own game.

Howard Lederer

Known as "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His success has lead to him making an instructional poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and co hosting a tournament poker show for Fox. As of 2005, his complete life winnings exceed $2.7 million.

Scotty Nguyen

Scotty is one of the most active players in professional poker and between 2000 to 2004 he finished in the money in more than 100 tournaments. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker matches and also credited with the term "that’s poker baby" when referring to a particularly bad defeat. As of 2006, his career earnings are almost $6 million.

Chris Ferguson

Chris has earned five World Series of Poker titles with 2 of his successes coming in 2003. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" because of his trademark long hair and beard, and is able to toss cards fast enough to slice through pickles and bananas. As of Two Thousand and Five his total live poker tourney earnings exceeded five million dollars.