A Couple of of Poker’s Nice Players
Beyond a doubt countless of players strive to be the next "huge thing" in poker, but here is a short rundown on 4 of the more well known "charming guys" of poker. Granted "nice" is connected with their names when you are facing them it’s "no more Mr. Nice guy" up until they have put you out of the game!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tournament winnings added up to in excess of 4.4 million dollars and he won 2 highly respected awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Tournament Player of the Year. In February 2006 he was chosen Card Player’s Favourite Poker Player. He still has the decency to speak to his fans about how they will be able to improve their own game.
Howard Lederer
Known as "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His achievements have allowed him to make an instructional video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and co hosting a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of Two Thousand and Five, his complete life time earnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scott is one of the busiest players in professional poker and from Two Thousand and 2004 he ranked in the money in more than 100 competitions. He’s noted for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker matches and also coined the term "that’s poker baby" when referring to a particularly bad beat. As of Two Thousand and Six, his life time winnings are just about six million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has won five WSOP titles with two of his successes happening in 2003. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" because of his characteristic long hair and beard, that, and along with his ability to toss playing cards fast enough to cut through pickles and bananas. As of 2005 his total poker tournament winnings exceeded 5 million dollars.
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