Scotty Nguyen is the 2008 WSOP $50K H.O.R.S.E. Champion
Scotty Nguyen is the poker champion of the world! After more than twelve hours of play the 1998 WSOP Main Event Champion finally defeated the last remaining player between him and the championship. Demonstrating his fierce competitive nature the Viet Nam native showed his opponents the way to the door. With his handy long neck beer, sans label, and his distinctive laugh the former world champion became the newest all-around poker world champion and will have his name engraved on the David "Chip" Reese Trophy along with the late Chip Reese (2006) and defending champion, Freddy Deeb (2007).
Jeff Pollack, WSOP Commissioner, summed it up quite nicely when he said, "Scotty may be know as the Prince of Poker, but tonight he played like a King." This is Scoty's fifth WSOP title and definitely the most prestigious. Most of the professional poker community consider this event to be the real Poker World Championship since players must show skill in five popular forms of poker.
Scotty Nguyen takes home $1,989,120 plus the special WSOP gold and diamond bracelet for outlasting a blue ribbon field of 148 poker players. Second place finisher, 22-year-old Michael DeMichele, collected $1,243,200 for his five days of work. Erick Lindgren received $781,440 for third place. Matt Glantz was paid $568,320 for fourth, Lyle berman gets $444,000 for fifth, Barry Greenstein has an extra $355,200 for his charities after finishing sixth, former WSOP world champion Huck Seed is $284,160 richer with the seventh place money, and Patrick Bueno left in eight place taking $230,880.
Congratulations to Scotty Nguyen for showing the world that poker is definitely a game of skill when played by professionals.
