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Literally millions of individuals are trying to be the next "mega star" in poker, but here is a short rundown on 4 of the more well known "great players" of poker. Even though "nice" is connected with their names when you are at a poker table 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 earnings amounted to in excess of $4.4 million and he won 2 highly admired awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine's Tourney Player of the Year. In Feb Two Thousand and Six he was named Card Player's Favourite Poker Player. Daniel even still has the decency to talk with his admirers about how they will be able to improve their own game.

Howard Lederer

Called "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His success has allowed him to make an educational poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold'em" and co hosting a tournament poker show for Fox. As of 2005, his total life time winnings exceed $2.7 million.

Scotty Nguyen

Scott is one of the most active players in poker and from 2000 and 2004 he finished in the money in well over 100 competitions. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" during poker matches and also coined the phrase "that's poker baby" when referring to a especially bad defeat. As of Two Thousand and Six, his life time winnings are almost 6 million dollars.

Chris Ferguson

Chris has won five World Series of Poker titles with 2 of his successes coming in 2003. Has the alias "Jesus" because of his trademark long hair and beard, that, and along with his ability to toss playing cards fast enough to cut through pickles and bananas. As of 2005 his total poker tournament earnings exceeded five million dollars.