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Nguyen is known for tutoring players, many of whom go on to be successful in their own right, including his cousins David Pham, Minh Nguyen, and his wife Van Nguyen. Men receives a portion of some of his students' winnings. [7] In 1991 one of his students gave him the nickname "The Master," and now he is widely known as "Men the Master."
Varkonyi first started playing poker as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1]After his graduation in 1983 (with degrees in EECS and from the MIT Sloan School of Management), he was an investment banker in Brooklyn, New York for a number of years before beginning to play tournament poker.
Scotty Nguyen – professional poker player [75] David Pham – professional poker, won two World Series of Poker bracelets and has made seven final tables at the World Poker Tour [76] J.C. Tran – professional poker player; as of 2010, his total live tournament winnings amounted to $7,996,635
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]
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 ...
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]
Mansour Matloubi (born 1952) is an Iranian-British professional poker player living in London. Matloubi won the 1990 World Series of Poker Main Event for $835,000, becoming the first non-American to win the title. [1] Later that year, he had a runner-up finish in the $10,000 No Limit Hold'em event at the 6th Annual Diamond Jim Brady for ...