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Literally countless of players are trying to be the next "big thing" in poker, but here is a short rundown on four of the more noteworthy "charming players" of the game. Although "nice" is associated with their names when you are facing them it's "no more Mr. Nice guy" until they have put you out of the game!

Daniel Negreanu

In Two Thousand and Four, his tournament payouts amounted to in the region of 4.4 million dollars and he attained 2 highly respected awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine's Tourney Player of the Year. In February 2006 he was chosen Card Player's Favourite Poker Player. Daniel even still has the decency to talk to his fans about how they can boost their own game.

Howard Lederer

Referred to as "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His success has allowed him to make an instructional poker video named "Secrets of No Limit Hold'em" and co hosting a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of 2005, his total life time earnings exceed $2.7 million.

Scotty Nguyen

Scott is one of the most active players in poker and between Two Thousand and 2004 he ranked in the money in more than 100 tournaments. He's noted for saying "yeah baby" during poker matches and also coined the phrase "that's poker baby" when referring to a exceptionally bad loss. As of 2006, his life time winnings are just about 6 million dollars.

Chris Ferguson

Chris has earned 5 World Series of Poker titles with two of his successes happening in Two Thousand and Three. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" because of his trademark long hair and beard, that, and along with his ability to throw playing cards fast enough to cut through pickles and bananas. As of Two Thousand and Five his total poker tournament earnings exceeded $5 million.