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A Couple of of Poker’s Great Guys
No Joke, huge amounts of people are trying to be the next "big-time thing" in poker, but here is a short rundown on 4 of the more noteworthy "great players" of the game. Even though "nice" is associated with their names when you are sitting accross the table from them it’s "no more Mr. Nice guy" until they have removed you out of the competition!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tourney earnings added up to in excess of four and a half million dollars and he attained 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 named Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. He still has the humility to talk to his fans about how they could improve their own game.
Howard Lederer
Known as "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His success has allowed him to make an educational video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and also holding a tournament poker show for Fox. As of Two Thousand and Five, his complete life time earnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scott is one of the busiest players in professional poker and between Two Thousand to 2004 he placed in the money in well over 100 competitions. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" during poker matches and also credited with the term "that’s poker baby" when referring to a exceptionally bad beat. As of Two Thousand and Six, his career winnings are just about six million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has earned 5 WSOP titles with 2 of his successes coming in Two Thousand and Three. Chris has the alias "Jesus" because of his characteristic 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 tournament winnings exceeded $5 million.
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