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Beyond a doubt countless of individuals want to be the next "big thing" in poker, but here is a short list of 4 of the more well known "great players" of poker. Despite the fact that "nice" is associated with their names when you are playing 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 winnings amounted to in excess of $4.4 million and he captured two immensely respected awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine's Competition Player of the Year. In February Two Thousand and Six he was named Card Player's Preferred Poker Player. He still has the decency to talk with his admirers about how they can advance their own game.

Howard Lederer

Called "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His success has allowed him to make an instructional video named "Secrets of No Limit Hold'em" and co holding 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 professional poker and from 2000 to 2004 he finished in the money in well over one hundred events. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker matches and also credited with the phrase "that's poker baby" when alluding to a particularly bad defeat. As of Two Thousand and Six, his life time winnings are just about 6 million dollars.

Chris Ferguson

Chris has earned five WSOP titles with 2 of his successes happening in 2003. Chris has the alias "Jesus" because of his trademark long hair and beard, along with his ability to toss playing cards fast enough to slice through pickles and bananas. As of Two Thousand and Five his total live poker tournament winnings exceeded 5 million dollars.