4 of Poker’s Charming Pros
No Joke, huge amounts of players want to be the next "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 sitting accross the table from them it is "no more Mr. Nice guy" until they have removed you out of the competition!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tournament payouts added up to more than $4.4 million and he won 2 immensely admired 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 Preferred Poker Player. Daniel still has the decency to speak to his fans about how they might boost their own game.
Howard Lederer
Known as "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His accomplishments have lead to him making an educational poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and co holding a tournament poker show for Fox. As of Two Thousand and Five, his complete life winnings surpass $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scotty is 1 of the busiest players in poker and between 2000 and 2004 he ranked in the money in excess of one hundred events. He is noted for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker games and also coined the term "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a exceptionally bad beat. As of 2006, his life time earnings are just about six million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has captured 5 WSOP titles with 2 of his wins coming in Two Thousand and Three. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" because of his characteristic long hair and beard, along with his ability to throw playing cards fast enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of Two Thousand and Five his total poker tourney earnings exceeded five million dollars.
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