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No Joke, huge amounts of individuals strive to be the next "mega star" in poker, but here is a short rundown on 4 of the more well known "great players" of the game. Although "nice" is associated with their names when you are sitting accross the table from 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 excess of 4.4 million dollars and he won 2 highly admired awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine's Tournament Player of the Year. In February 2006 he was appointed Card Player's Preferred Poker Player. He still has the decency to speak to his admirers about how they can boost their own game.

Howard Lederer

Known as "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His achievements have lead to him making an instructional poker video named "Secrets of No Limit Hold'em" and also holding a tournament poker show for Fox. As of 2005, his complete life time earnings surpass 2.7 million dollars.

Scotty Nguyen

Scott is one of the most active players in poker and between 2000 to Two Thousand and Four he placed in the money in more than one hundred events. He is noted for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker matches and also coined the term "that's poker baby" when referring to a especially bad loss. As of Two Thousand and Six, his career winnings are just about 6 million dollars.

Chris Ferguson

Chris has earned 5 WSOP titles with 2 of his wins coming in Two Thousand and Three. Chris has the alias "Jesus" due to his trademark long hair and beard, along with his ability to toss playing cards fast enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of 2005 his total live poker tourney earnings exceeded $5 million.