No Joke, huge amounts of people want to be the next "star" in poker, but here is a short list of four of the more well known "nice players" of the game. Although "nice" is connected with their names when you are sitting accross the table from them it’s "no more Mr. Nice guy" up until they have removed you out of the game!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tournament earnings amounted to in the region of 4.4 million dollars and he captured 2 highly respected awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Competition Player of the Year. In February Two Thousand and Six he was appointed Card Player’s Favourite Poker Player. He still has the decency to speak to his fans about how they could improve their own game.
Howard Lederer
Called "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His achievements have lead to him making an instructional poker video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and co holding a tournament poker show for Fox. As of 2005, his total life time earnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scotty is one of the most active players in poker and between 2000 to Two Thousand and Four he ranked in the money in excess of 100 tournaments. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" during poker games and also credited with the phrase "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a particularly bad defeat. As of 2006, his life time winnings are just about 6 million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has captured five World Series of Poker titles with 2 of his wins happening in 2003. Has the alias "Jesus" due to his characteristic long hair and beard, along with his ability to throw playing cards quick enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of 2005 his total live poker tournament earnings exceeded 5 million dollars.