Nguyen in Vegas Poker Tournament

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Scott Nguyen is out to win the tournament for Las Vegas and he has made sure that he is in a good position to enter today's final.

Even if you don't know a whole lot about Scott Nguyen you probably know the phrase that he has made his own... "Yeah, baby." He had the chance to say that lots of times on Friday at the Bellagio.



He started out with a short stack of 300,000 in chips but finished the day with 4.9 million in chips at the World Poker Tour's Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Classic. He will enter today as the number two out of six.

"They don't slow me down," Nguyen said. "Even when I got 300,000 chips, they look at me like I'm done. I will never be done. If I have one chip in front of me, baby, they should still worry."

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He has some very impressive wins under his belt including the 1998 World Series of Poker Main Event and the 2008 World Series of Poker $50,000 HORSE World Championship not to mention the five WSOP beacelets!

Good luck to him and all of the others in this tournament.

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I'm sorry to say it, but (I think) Scotty is a dbag.

This guy is supposed to be the Prince of Poker? Poker Ambassador? imo, the game is better off without him. Maybe if he quit drinking, he wouldn't be the way he is now. Every time you see him, he has a beer in his hand and if he doesn't, he's complaining that the cocktail waitresses are too slow.

In my eyes, he is just a belligerent drunk. To be fair, from what I've seen of him, he's a decent guy until he gets some alcohol in him.

Not only did he act like an a-hole during the 2008 Chip Reese H.O.R.S.E tournament, he also pulled the same stunts during this year's Doyle Brunson Classic tournament.

This article from Cardplayer.com sums it up in a nutshell. This happened during the Doyle Brunson Classic:

Scotty Nguyen (pictured below left) got in on the act, as well. Nguyen was being his usual boisterous self when he criticized a dealer over a small mistake. Dan O’Brien tried to calm the situation down, and Nguyen took offense to him chiming in with a defense of the dealer. Shortly after that, Nguyen decided to play a hand completely blind against O’Brien and ended up giving the young pro more than 100,000 in chips before finally taking a peek and mucking on the river.

Scotty Nguyen was clearly upset with O’Brien, but the barrage of F-bombs were unfortunately unloaded on the quiet and polite man sitting to his right. The action started with the unknown player, who raised to 24,000 in the cutoff. Nguyen reraised to roughly 50,000 on the button, and the cutoff then reraised to 150,000. Nguyen called, and the flop came KHeart 7Spade 3Heart.

The cutoff moved all in, and Nguyen called all in with 7Heart 4Heart for a pair and a flush draw. His opponent showed pocket aces, but they were cracked when the turn and river came 5Club and 7Club, giving Nguyen the winning hand with trips. Nguyen immediately slammed the felt when the river fell and began screaming obscenities toward the cutoff and the rest of the table, explaining that he was tired of people messing with him. The unknown player, clearly devastated by the hand and left with just a few big blinds, could only sit quietly as Nguyen scooped the huge pot. Despite immediately receiving a 10-minute penalty, Nguyen took his time stacking the million-plus pot, carefully maneuvering each chip around his beer before taking his punishment.

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Lol, sounds like maybe he does drink a bit too much. In any case, he must know what he is doing *even if drunk* cause he sure does have a lot of wins under his belt.