4 of Poker’s Charming Players
Beyond a doubt millions and millions of people want to be the next "huge thing" in poker, but here is a short rundown on 4 of the more noteworthy "charming guys" of the game. Although "nice" is associated with their names when you are playing them it’s "no more Mr. Nice guy" up until they have removed you out of the game!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tourney payouts added up to in the region of $4.4 million and he won two immensely respected awards in the World Series of Poker 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 even still has the decency 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 accomplishments have lead to him making an educational poker video named "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and co hosting a tournament poker show for Fox. As of Two Thousand and Five, his total life time earnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scotty is one of the busiest players in professional poker and between 2000 and 2004 he ranked in the money in more than one hundred events. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker matches and also credited with the term "that’s poker baby" when referring to a exceptionally bad loss. As of Two Thousand and Six, his life time winnings are almost $6 million.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has won 5 WSOP titles with two of his wins happening in 2003. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" because of his trademark long hair and beard, along with his ability to throw playing cards quick enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of 2005 his total live poker tourney earnings exceeded five million dollars.
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