Scotty Nguyen Profile (source: Online Gambling Guide)

Thuan Scotty Nguyen is the full name of Vietnamese-American pro poker player Scotty Nguyen. He was born on October 28, 1962 in a far away city of Vietnam. He immigrated to the U.S. when he was 14 years old. That’s also about the age when
he started learning how to play the game. Currently, he is a very active professional poker player with a total of thirty-four money finishes and four WSOP bracelets.

His most memorable win was in 1998, during the World Series of Poker main event.  He has dealt an impressive 9 full house on the table, enough to beat his opponent’s 8 full house. However, Nguyen doesn’t regard highly of that particular win as his brother was killed in an accident back in Vietnam right on the day following the tournament.

Nguyen was almost a regular at the World Poker Tour final table, but is yet to win an event. However, he was finally able to do so in January of 2006. That’s another major feat for him, as it gave him the title to be only the fifth player in poker history to win both at the World Series Poker and World Poker Tour main events.

Unlike other poker players, Nguyen doesn’t like playing cash games much. He states that he don’t feel good taking other people’s money. His latest accomplishment was in the World Series of Poker 2007, where he finished second place. He lost to Eli Elezra, who is another poker great.

From the time Scotty played professional poker up to 2007, his live tournament earnings exceed $7.5 million. Aside from playing poker, Nguyen can also be seen playing blackjack in the Ultimate Blackjack Tour.

Scotty Nguyen love playing poker with his lively emotion. He is also very much noted for words like ‘yeah baby’ and ‘baby’, which he utters excitedly every time he is playing. Nguyen is such a charismatic poker player - very different from the normally tight-lipped, serious-faced poker players of today.