Beyond a doubt countless of individuals are trying to be the next "big thing" in poker, but here is a short list of 4 of the more famous "charming players" of poker. Although "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 Two Thousand and Four, his tourney payouts added up to in the region of $4.4 million and he attained 2 immensely admired awards in the WSOP 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. Daniel even still has the decency to talk to his admirers about how they might improve their own game.
Howard Lederer
Called "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His achievements have allowed him to make an instructional poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and also holding a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of Two Thousand and Five, his total life time earnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scotty is one of the busiest players in professional poker and from Two Thousand and Two Thousand and Four he finished in the money in excess of one hundred events. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker games and also credited with the phrase "that’s poker baby" when referring to a exceptionally bad defeat. As of 2006, his life time earnings are just about 6 million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has earned 5 World Series of Poker titles with two of his successes coming in Two Thousand and Three. Has the alias "Jesus" as a result of his trademark long hair and beard, along with his ability to throw cards quick enough to cut through pickles and bananas. As of 2005 his total poker tourney earnings exceeded $5 million.
