Poker Players - Scotty Nguyen

Posted by Royal Flush Poker @ 7:20 PM, Monday May 5th, 2008

Scotty Nguyen was born on October 28th 1962 in South Vietnam, he moved to America in 1974 and began earning his living as a card dealer there.  CLICK HERE to register as a new player at pokerstars.com and you could be just like Scotty and turn into a WSOP pro!

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With this line of employment came the opportunity to watch good poker players in action, and Scotty paid close attention before beginning to try his hand at the game himself. After time spent honing his skills at smaller games, he moved up to bigger tables and before long, was supporting his family from his poker playing with relative ease, as his talent continued to grow.

It was only a matter of time before Scotty made the journey to the World Series and once he did, it didn’t take long for him to make his mark, as he went on to win the 1998 main event in what was one of pokers truly magic moments. After moving all in against his opponent Kevin McBride he declared ‘You call it’s gonna be all over baby’ which his opponent promptly did, losing to Scottys full house.

It took Scotty until 2006 however to win a WPT event and become one of only a handful of people to hold a WPT title as well as being a World Series main event winner, the 2007 main event wasn’t far away from bringing Scotty his 2nd main event title too as he managed to finish in 11th place out of a field of over 6,000 players. For now however he will have to be happy with his 4 bracelets and tournament earnings estimated at over $7,000,000 which is an excellent poker career thus far by anyones standards.

Scotty still competes in many tournaments every year and so you can be sure that those previously mentioned figures will grow further still, as the charismatic, ever smiling Scotty Nguyen, continues to elevate his name to being amongst the all time greats of the game.

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