A Couple of of Poker’s Nice Guys
Friday, 15. August 2025
Beyond a doubt huge amounts of people strive to be the next "mega star" in poker, but here is a short list of 4 of the more famous "great pros" of poker. Even though "nice" is associated with their names when you are at a poker table 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 payouts added up to more than $4.4 million and he won two highly admired awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Tourney Player of the Year. In Feb 2006 he was named Card Player’s Favourite Poker Player. He still has the humility to speak to his fans about how they could boost their own game.
Howard Lederer
Called "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His accomplishments have lead to him making an educational poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and also hosting a tournament poker show for Fox. As of 2005, his complete life time winnings surpass $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scott is one of the busiest players in poker and between 2000 to 2004 he ranked in the money in more than one hundred tournaments. He’s notorious for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker games and also credited with the phrase "that’s poker baby" when referring to a particularly bad loss. As of Two Thousand and Six, his career earnings are almost six million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has earned five World Series of Poker titles with two of his wins coming in 2003. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" due to his trademark long hair and beard, and is able to toss playing cards quick enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of Two Thousand and Five his total live poker tournament earnings exceeded $5 million.
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