Beyond a doubt millions of players strive to be the next "big-time thing" in poker, but here is a short list of 4 of the more famous "nice players" of poker. Although "nice" is associated with their names when you are facing them it’s "no more Mr. Nice guy" until they have removed you out of the game!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tournament winnings amounted to more than four and a half million dollars and he attained 2 highly respected awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Competition Player of the Year. In February 2006 he was chosen Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. Daniel even still has the decency to talk with his admirers about how they might advance their own game.
Howard Lederer
Known as "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 co holding a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of Two Thousand and Five, his total life earnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scotty is one of the busiest players in professional poker and between Two Thousand to Two Thousand and Four he finished in the money in more than one hundred competitions. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" during poker matches and also credited with the phrase "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a particularly bad beat. As of Two Thousand and Six, his life time earnings are just about six million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has captured 5 World Series of Poker titles with two of his successes coming in Two Thousand and Three. Chris has the alias "Jesus" due to his trademark long hair and beard, that, and along with his ability to toss playing cards quick enough to slice through bananas and pickles. As of 2005 his total poker tourney winnings exceeded five million dollars.