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No Joke, millions and millions of players want to be the next "star" in poker, but here is a short rundown on four of the more noteworthy "nice players" of poker. Granted "nice" is associated with their names when you are facing 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 tourney payouts amounted to in the region of 4.4 million dollars and he came away with 2 highly respected awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Tournament Player of the Year. In Feb 2006 he was named Card Player’s Favourite Poker Player. He still has the decency to talk to his fans about how they will be able to improve their own game.

Howard Lederer

Known as "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His success has lead to him making an educational poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and also hosting a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of 2005, his complete life time earnings exceed 2.7 million dollars.

Scotty Nguyen

Scotty is one of the busiest players in poker and from Two Thousand to 2004 he placed in the money in well over 100 tournaments. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" during poker games and also credited with the term "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a especially bad defeat. As of Two Thousand and Six, his career earnings are just about 6 million dollars.

Chris Ferguson

Chris has captured 5 WSOP titles with two of his wins coming in Two Thousand and Three. Chris has the alias "Jesus" due to his characteristic long hair and beard, along with his ability to toss playing cards quick enough to slice through pickles and bananas. As of Two Thousand and Five his total live poker tournament earnings exceeded 5 million dollars.