Focus on: Scotty Nguyen

Scotty Nguyen is one of the best poker players in the world today. He is a very active player and between 2000 and 2004 he was “In the money” in over 100 tournamnents. Scotty was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam in 1962. He has won five bracelets in World series of poker and his biggest win was in 1998 when he won the main event. In 2008 he won the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E World Championship.
Scotty is very well known to play with a lot of emotions and he is also famous for his expressions “yeah baby” and “That´s poker baby” when it comes to bad beats. At the 1998 World Series Of Poker he said, in the last hand of the tournament, to his opponent Kevin McBride: “You call, gonna be all over baby!” 9-9-8-8-8 was on the table and McBride called. Ofcourse Scotty Nguyen won with a better hand (9-9-9-8-8).
The day after this event, one of his brother was killed in a car accident in Vietnam and this is why Scotty Nguyen don´t wear his 1998 WSOP bracelet.
Scotty Nguyen have been broke a coulpe of times in his poker career but he has always manage to rebuild the bankroll. Scotty finally won a World Poker Tour event in 2006, beating Michael Mizrachi.
At 2009 his total winnings in tournaments is $10,700,000, and we can be sure this will be bigger over the next few years. Right now he is in a commercial for the gambling company Expekt.com.