Literally millions of people are trying to be the next "big-time thing" in poker, but here is a short rundown on 4 of the more well known "charming guys" of the game. Granted "nice" is connected with their names when you are sitting accross the table from 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 tournament earnings added up to in the region of $4.4 million and he won 2 highly respected awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Competition Player of the Year. In February 2006 he was named Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. Daniel still has the decency to talk to his admirers about how they might advance their own game.
Howard Lederer
Called "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 also holding a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of Two Thousand and Five, his complete life winnings exceed 2.7 million dollars.
Scotty Nguyen
Scott is 1 of the busiest players in poker and between 2000 and 2004 he ranked in the money in more than one hundred tournaments. He’s notorious for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker games and also coined the term "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a especially bad loss. As of 2006, his life time earnings are just about six million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has won 5 WSOP titles with two of his wins coming in 2003. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" because of his trademark long hair and beard, and is able to throw cards quick enough to cut through pickles and bananas. As of 2005 his total live poker tourney earnings exceeded 5 million dollars.