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Nguyen met his future wife, Van, in Vietnam. He eventually brought her to the United States, where they settled in Bell Gardens, California. Men and Van have three children. Van Nguyen learned poker from her husband. She won the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational in March 2008, becoming the first woman to ever win a WPT mixed event. [4]
Minh Van Nguyen [1] (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Văn Minh; born May 15), a Vietnamese American professional poker player, is a two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner residing in Bell Gardens, California. Nguyen finished 24th in the $10,000 no limit hold'em Main Event at the 2002 World Series of Poker (WSOP), earning $40,000. [2]
In February 2003, Pham won the $5,000 limit hold'em event of the L.A. Poker Classic, outlasting such players as John Phan and Jennifer Harman to take home the $457,320 first prize. [9] Later, in December 2004, he defeated Alan Goehring heads-up to win the $3,000 no limit hold'em event at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic, earning a payday of ...
Nguyen has multiple cashes at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) including two bracelets, his first was in the 2003 World Series of Poker $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em event, earning $222,800, with a final table made up of fellow professional poker players T. J. Cloutier (9th), David Singer (7th), Steve Zolotow (6th), Tom Jacobs (5th), Kenna James (4th), Mike 'The Mouth' Matusow (3rd) and Jim Miller ...
Rod Peate is a poker player from Portland, Oregon. In the 1983 World Series of Poker, Peate finished runner-up to Tom McEvoy in the Main Event for $216,000. [1] Since then, Peate has cashed in the Main Event four times: 1987, 1990, 1997, and 1998. [2] In 1995, Peate won a World Series of Poker bracelet in Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo. [3]
Anthony Nguyen, a.k.a. Andy, a poker dealer at Binion's Horseshoe Casino, was the World Series of Poker bracelet winner in the Casino Employees Championship for $83,390 in 2005. Andy had worked at the Binion's as a poker dealer since 2001. He was 43 when he won the tournament. [1]
Tuan Le (born February 15, 1978, in Paris, France) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player.. Of Vietnamese ancestry, Le was raised in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States, but by middle school age he was living in Los Angeles, California, where he attended John Burroughs Junior High School, on McCadden and 6th Street.
In 2015, Petrangelo won his first WSOP bracelet at the World Series of Poker. [2] In December of that year, Petrangelo finished runner up to Fedor Holz in the $100,000 WPT Alpha8 No Limit Hold'em High Roller event, winning $1,015,335. [3] Petrangelo won a side event at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in 2016, winning $93,208. [4]