Beyond a doubt huge amounts of players are trying to be the next "huge thing" in poker, but here is a short list of four of the more noteworthy "nice players" of poker. Granted "nice" is associated with their names when you are sitting accross the table from them it’s "no more Mr. Nice guy" until they have put you out of the competition!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tournament payouts amounted to in the region of $4.4 million and he won 2 immensely respected awards in the WSOP Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Competition Player of the Year. In Feb 2006 he was appointed Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. Daniel still has the humility to talk to his fans about how they might improve their own game.
Howard Lederer
Referred to as "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker professional Annie Duke. His success has lead to him making an instructional video called "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and also holding a tournament poker show for Fox. As of 2005, his total life earnings exceed $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scott is 1 of the most active players in professional poker and between 2000 to Two Thousand and Four he placed in the money in more than one hundred events. He’s notorious for saying "yeah baby" during poker matches and also coined the phrase "that’s poker baby" when referring to a especially bad loss. As of 2006, his life time winnings are almost six million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has captured five World Series of Poker titles with two of his successes coming in 2003. Chris has the alias "Jesus" as a result of his characteristic long hair and beard, along with his ability to throw playing cards fast enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of 2005 his total live poker tourney winnings exceeded 5 million dollars.