Archive for October, 2009
Scotty Nguyen
October 9th, 2009 | 
Author: Nguyen which is pronounced “win” came from South Vietnam in 1979 on a small boat through South Pacific. He was brought to the USA after he was picked up together with his family by a US naval vessel. Nguyen arrived practically without any money and after a while he settled down in Chicago.
He moved to Las Vegas at the age of 21 and began to work as a poker dealer. Nguyen started to play in his free time for low stakes and entered daily, small tournaments that were very common for Las Vegas. The skills of Nguyen over the next decade improved progressively, he quit dealing and started to play full time poker. His first big break came at 1997 World Series of Poker when he won the Omaha High-Low Split event. He returned the next year and defeated a then-record 350 opponents at the age of 35 and won the poker’s world championship.
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