Beyond a doubt huge amounts of people strive to be the next "star" in poker, but here is a short rundown on four of the more famous "nice players" of the game. Even though "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 2004, his tourney winnings added up to more than $4.4 million and he won two highly admired awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Competition Player of the Year. In Feb Two Thousand and Six he was named Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. Daniel even still has the decency to speak to his fans about how they could improve 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 Two Thousand and Five, his complete life time winnings surpass $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scotty is one of the most active players in poker and between 2000 to 2004 he ranked 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 alluding to a especially bad defeat. As of 2006, his life time winnings are almost $6 million.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has won five WSOP titles with 2 of his successes happening in 2003. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" because of his trademark long hair and beard, and is able to throw cards fast enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of Two Thousand and Five his total poker tournament winnings exceeded five million dollars.