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No Joke, millions and millions of individuals want to be the next "mega star" in poker, but here is a short list of four of the more famous "great players" of poker. Although "nice" is associated 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 payouts added up to in excess of $4.4 million and he attained 2 immensely admired awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine's Competition Player of the Year. In February 2006 he was appointed Card Player's Favourite Poker Player. He even still has the decency to speak to his admirers about how they might improve their own game.

Howard Lederer

Called "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His accomplishments have allowed him to make an educational poker video named "Secrets of No Limit Hold'em" and co holding a tournament poker show for Fox. As of Two Thousand and Five, his complete life time earnings surpass 2.7 million dollars.

Scotty Nguyen

Scotty is 1 of the most active players in professional poker and from Two Thousand and 2004 he finished in the money in more than 100 events. He's noted for saying "yeah baby" during poker games and also coined the term "that's poker baby" when referring to a particularly bad loss. As of 2006, his career winnings are almost 6 million dollars.

Chris Ferguson

Chris has earned 5 World Series of Poker titles with two of his wins happening in 2003. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" as a result of his characteristic long hair and beard, that, and along with his ability to toss cards fast enough to slice through bananas and pickles. As of Two Thousand and Five his total live poker tourney winnings exceeded five million dollars.