WSOP: Scotty “Potty Mouth” Nguyen on ESPN

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Tuesday night I wanted to post after looking into the H.O.R.S.E. ‘s mouth final table but I didn’t because I didn’t.  This was the first ESPN coverage of the WSOP where I felt like I was Phil Ivey watching the Lakers.  Here’s a recap of my jaw dropping reactions of Lyle Berman, Michael DeMichele, Eric “Sweet E Puppy” Lindgren (photo below) and Scotty “Potty Mouth” Nguyen (with Jeffrey Pollack bottom Photo).

Reaction One: Surprised by Nguyen’s behavior simply because he often walks around the room smiling and shaking hands.  There must be an inside joke.  Man, good lay down by Berman.

Reaction Two: Why is Nguyen steaming over DeMichele’s Ace little when he called with Ace little?  He is “hotter than a Las Vegas hood ornament in August.”  Hey, that was a funny line.  Did Norman Chad or Lon McEachem make that statement?

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Reaction Three:  Wow, he’s really pissed off and throwing around some chips.  You know, Phil Hellmuth would never do that.  Oh right, because Hellmuth would have been penalized for saying the naughty word.  Oh wait, E-Dog just had a beeped word.  Maybe they had a vote on the f-bomb.

Reaction Four:    If E-dog isn’t on Myspace… is he on Facebook?  Wait! Did E-dog just call Nguyen “son?”

Reaction Five: HOLY SHEETS!  Did Nguyen just say he was colluding?  WTF?  WHAT DID HE SAY?  Oh man, this reminds me of the pro rumored to pay buy-ins for people to dump chips back to him…

Reaction Six: DeMichele lied.  Nguyen is way under his skin and now cute little E-Puppy too. Ah, poor little puppy.  Hmmm, I wonder is Gavin Smith will bust out singing Sweet Caroline like he did at the Budding Ivey party.  And where the heck was I during that final table?  I went out late but I can’t remember where I went.  I remember Pauly’s twitter… Oh man, E-dog is out.  Well, that’s OK… he won enough money to party like a rockstar at Jett.

Reaction Seven:  Scotty clearly has a case of “I just drank a twelve pack and I can’t remember the last three chapters in Hellmuth’s book “How to act like Phil Hellmuth, the Greatest Hold’em Player in the World, at the Final Table.”  Now he has enough money to consult Hellmuth on poker manners.  I wonder what John Bonetti would say…

Reaction Eight: Wow, Nguyen is making Hellmuth look like a little kitten.  I mean, I know it’s about 4am… but doesn’t Nguyen know the cocktail waitress and staff are tired too and possibly afraid of being ridiculed on national television?  Boy, this is looking like a Jerry Springer tournament.

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Poker After Dark Gets New Host & Pros

When I’m in Las Vegas, I rarely head downtown. However, when my friend Lisa Wheeler asked me to host at the WSOB & (Phil) Budding Ivey Foundation Charity Event at the Golden Nugget’s Shark Tank, I was so there for the more-than-fun function.  I knew the Nugget’s renovations would be nice since (this will be confusing) it’s owned by…. Landry’s Restaurants, which is owned by Tillman Fertitta… until he went public… but has since been buying up the stock… so now Landry’s is private again.  I only know these things because Fertitta lives here in Houston and I read the Houston Business Journal (when I have breaks from watching Sponge Bob Square Pants).

The Golden Nugget announced today they will be hosting NBC’s Poker After Dark which will start dealing cards in October and airing in December.  Other good news…. NBC’s Poker After Dark has secured NBC for their network.  Again. 

According to the Press Release, here are some expected poker sharks who are not new:

The program will feature the world’s top pros, such as Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, Erick Lindgren, Jennifer Harman, Gus Hansen and Phil Hellmuth fighting it out for poker supremacy in a mix of 6-handed, winner-take-all freezeouts and high-stakes cash games

Unless of course, Ivey, Lindgren and Negreanu get stuck on the golf course.

Photo Courtesy MSNBC

WSOP Day 1B

Barney Boatman, of the Hendon Mob, is playing right by the media desk and his smile and thumbs up was a good tell he’s happy at the moment.  Eric Lindgren is on the featured table wearing a black shirt and Rawvegas.tv label for the third time this series but we’re pretty sure it’s a clean shirt.  And Patrik Antonius is playing today but I’m too lazy to go find him.  There were 1158 entrants today… now down to 963-ish.  Rumors of Day 1D being sold out were confirmed but then heard it was open again.