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Beyond a doubt countless of players strive to be the next "mega star" in poker, but here is a short rundown on 4 of the more noteworthy "great guys" of poker. Granted "nice" is connected with their names when you are playing 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 dollars and he captured 2 immensely 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 Favourite Poker Player. Daniel even still has the decency to talk to his admirers about how they can boost their own game.

Howard Lederer

Called "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His accomplishments have lead to him making an educational video named "Secrets of No Limit Hold'em" and co hosting a tournament poker show for Fox. As of 2005, his total life time earnings exceed $2.7 million.

Scotty Nguyen

Scotty is 1 of the busiest players in professional poker and between 2000 to 2004 he finished in the money in excess of 100 tournaments. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker matches and also coined the phrase "that's poker baby" when alluding to a particularly bad beat. As of 2006, his life time winnings are just about six million dollars.

Chris Ferguson

Chris has earned 5 WSOP titles with 2 of his successes happening in 2003. Has the alias "Jesus" due to his trademark long hair and beard, along with his ability to toss playing cards quick enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of Two Thousand and Five his total live poker tourney winnings exceeded five million dollars.