Scotty Nguyen is a well known poker champion among dedicated poker fans, and after his controversial behaviour during his recent 1st place win, in the 39th World Series of Poker pushed him even more so into the lime light. Scotty was even on ESPN to talk about what happened during the WSOP final table and to give his side of the story.
Scotty Nguyen, originally from South Vietnam migrated to Orange County, USA at the age of 14 in 1974. He soon got started in the word of poker playing in the back room poker games rather than been in class, which ultimately got him expelled from his school.
He made his break into casino poker in Southern California where he was hired as a poker dealer. As dealer and observer of countless poker games he committed everything he saw to memory, this is where he picked up all the skills he required to become one of the world’s best poker players. He was soon able to put what he had seen into practice and began to make a living from playing poker.
He won his first WOSP bracelet in the 1997 WSOP, Omaha 8 or Better, 28th word series, but leapt to fame in 1998 when he became the WSOP No Limit Hold’em World champion, bagging a cool one million dollars and his second WSOP bracelet. The very next day catastrophe struck as one of his brothers was hit and killed by a car in Vietnam, Scotty does not were his 1998 WSOP bracelet do to this unfortunate accident.
Scotty is well known for his flamboyant character and unremitting chat at the table as well as his blue tinted sun glasses, gold pendants and white leather boots.
To date Scotty has accumulated five Gold WSOP bracelets and ranks number 7 on the all time top money earner list with $ 9,725,766.
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