4 of Poker’s Charming Players
Literally huge amounts of people strive to be the next "mega star" in poker, but here is a short list of four of the more well known "great players" of poker. Granted "nice" is connected with their names when you are sitting accross the table from them it is "no more Mr. Nice guy" up until they have put you out of the competition!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tournament winnings amounted to more than $4.4 million and he came away with 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 2006 he was named Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. He still has the decency to talk to his admirers about how they could improve their own game.
Howard Lederer
Called "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His success has lead to him making an educational poker video named "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 time earnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scott is one of the most active players in poker and between 2000 to 2004 he finished in the money in excess of 100 competitions. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" during poker matches and also coined the phrase "that’s poker baby" when referring to a especially bad loss. As of Two Thousand and Six, his career winnings are almost 6 million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has won 5 WSOP titles with 2 of his successes happening in 2003. Chris has the alias "Jesus" because of his characteristic long hair and beard, and is able to throw cards quick enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of Two Thousand and Five his total poker tournament winnings exceeded 5 million dollars.
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