![]() ![]() His name spread around Vegas and soon he began playing poker with Johnny Chan, Puggy Pearson, and David Grey. He returned to Las Vegas and gambled his bankroll up to $1 million. He built his bankroll to $7,000 and felt he was invincible. He dealt all day and played cash games all night with the meager bankroll he brought with him. His luck improved in 1985 when he was invited to Lake Tahoe to deal in a no-limit Hold’em tournament. He described himself as a "fish" but wanted to gamble regardless. While with Harrah's, he made about $150 a night and lost most of it playing $3–$6 stud. Nguyen attended dealer school at the age of 21 and was employed at Harrah’s poker room. He was expelled from school for spending too much time in underground poker games. He came to the United States at the age of 14 after finding a sponsor in Orange County, California. Due to the conflict in Vietnam, his mother sent him out of the country, first to Taiwan. Scotty Nguyen was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam. He is the first, and currently only, player to win both the WSOP Main Event and $50,000 Players' Championship. "Scotty" Nguyễn (born October 28, 1962) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player who is a five-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, most notably as the winner of the 1998 World Series of Poker Main Event and the 2008 World Series of Poker $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Information accurate as of 14 March 2010. Nguyen wins 50K HORSE 2008 World Series of Poker ![]()
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