A Couple of of Poker’s Great Pros

Beyond a doubt countless of people want to be the next "mega star" in poker, but here is a short list of four of the more well known "charming guys" of the game. Even though "nice" is connected with their names when you are playing them it is "no more Mr. Nice guy" until they have removed you out of the game!

Daniel Negreanu

In Two Thousand and Four, his tourney winnings added up to in the region of four and a half million dollars and he won two immensely respected awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Tournament Player of the Year. In February Two Thousand and Six he was appointed Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. He still has the decency to speak to his admirers about how they could boost their own game.

Howard Lederer

Known as "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His achievements have lead to him making an instructional poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and co 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 1 of the most active players in professional poker and from 2000 to 2004 he placed in the money in well over 100 events. He is noted for saying "yeah baby" during poker games and also coined the term "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a particularly bad beat. As of 2006, his career winnings are just about six million dollars.

Chris Ferguson

Chris has earned five World Series of Poker titles with 2 of his successes coming in 2003. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" as a result of his trademark long hair and beard, along with his ability to throw playing cards quick enough to cut through pickles and bananas. As of Two Thousand and Five his total poker tourney earnings exceeded $5 million.

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