No Joke, huge amounts of people strive to be the next "big-time thing" in poker, but here is a short list of 4 of the more noteworthy "nice guys" of poker. Although "nice" is connected 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 game!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tourney payouts amounted to more than 4.4 million dollars and he attained two highly respected awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Competition Player of the Year. In Feb Two Thousand and Six he was appointed Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. He still has the humility to talk to his admirers about how they will be able to advance their own game.
Howard Lederer
Called "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His success has lead to him making an instructional poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and also holding a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of 2005, his complete life time earnings exceed 2.7 million dollars.
Scotty Nguyen
Scott is 1 of the busiest players in professional poker and between Two Thousand and Two Thousand and Four he placed in the money in excess of 100 events. He’s noted for saying "yeah baby" during poker games and also credited with the term "that’s poker baby" when referring to a particularly bad beat. As of Two Thousand and Six, his career winnings are almost six million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has earned five World Series of Poker titles with two of his wins coming in 2003. Chris has the nickname "Jesus" because of his characteristic long hair and beard, that, and along with his ability to toss cards fast enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of Two Thousand and Five his total poker tourney winnings exceeded five million dollars.