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Watch Scotty Nguyen Bombarded By Fans While On Break on RawVegas.tv
For some reason this is probably our favorite webisode of Scotty Being Scotty to date.
Scotty Nguyen has always been accommodating to his fans, and has been especially accommodating since the $50k H.O.R.S.E. incident last year. This gives a pretty good glimpse of what it’s like to be Scotty (or Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, and Doyle Brunson) during the WSOP Main Event.
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Twitter is a phenomom on par with Beatlemania, Fernandomania, Pac Man Fever, the Summer of the Shark, and idiots in 1994 who claimed that Killing Zoe was their favorite Tarantino movie. Yep, twitter pretty much dominates conversation right now.
While 1/3 of the Entities despises twitter about as much as Joan Rivers hates Annie Duke, the other 2/3's are all over it, and are particularly keen on WPT head honcho Steve Lipscomb's tweets.
Call them little nuggets of wisdom or moments of bliss. Call them whatever you want. Just count us as fans. Here are some of our favorites:
"God love southwest airlines. Sat next to flav o' flave on the way to vegas, doubt my return will be quite so colorful … Coaxed him to get on the plane mic"
"do you think someone will string all these twits together someday and make the monkey could write shakespeare argument?"
"Asking myself why the native americans didn't win — they were right about the curse of owning things . . ."
"Tired of "What are you doing?" How about "Who are you doing?" Twitter could still be the name of the site . . . with feeling . . ."
"Okay, I think we should limit meetings to 140 characters each . . . . any objections (keep them brief please . . .)"
"Who are the fucktards that keep voting for Danny Gokey? That guy sings like a grizzly bear. Rather sit next 2 Phil Laak on an international flight than listen to Gokey sing for 90 secs…"*
Enjoy more here.
* Possibly made that last one up.
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Yevgeniy Timoshenko with a brown wig? Maybe? Or Ukrainian model Olga Kurylenko?
As expected, Yevgeniy Timoshenko ran away from the field and captured the WPT Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
Timoshenko Russian Ukrainian a woman who now resides in Washington State has been killing it online for years. Now, he adds the WPT's top prize and another $2.1M+ to his bankroll.
Timoshenko defeated Ran Azor heads-up for the title, ensuring Joe Bartholdi's status as
ElkY Grospellier finished third, wrapping up WPT Player of the Year honors and adding another $776,245 to his tournament earnings.
Christian Harder finished fourth ($571,965), followed by "Good for" Shannon Shorr ($408,550), and Scotty Nguyen ($285,985).
Get a full recap of the evening and interview with Timoshenko here.
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The WPT Championship final table is set.
Yevgeniy Timoshenko. Early on Day 2 of the event, we asked the WPT team if Yevgeniy Timoshenko, a woman, was a chick, because of this picture. Later we did a post on him. Come to find out the dude is SOLID. Most think he's the real deal. Plus, he's got the Russian thing going for him. After Slumdog Millionaire, Vivek Rajkumar's run, and Anoop Desai's early front-runner status on American Idol, we thought it was the Year of the IndianTM. But then Anoop flamed out, killing that theory. In poker, it's clearly the Year of the RussianTM, even if said Russian actually lives in Seattle. Whatever. Timoshenko is big stacked at 13,300,000. He's got the mojo. We've got him listed at 1:1.
Christian Harder. Who? What? Harder is second overall in chips with 7,425,000. He's played solid all week. Third place feels right. 6:1 odds.
ElkY Grospellier. ElkY could grab WPT Player of the Year honors with a fourth place finish, which we think he'll do, because he'll finish second. No non-Russian is hotter in poker right now. EklY is currently third overall with 5,955,000. Odds of winning: 3:1.
Scotty Nguyen. Nobody has more primetime poker experience at this final table than Nguyen. He's played great poker all week. He's been focused. It would be no shocker for him to make a run at this title, despite having a ways to go to catch up. A win would actually make Scotty tournament poker's all-time money winner, so there's some extra incentive if he cares about that kind of thing (like a Phil Hellmuth would, for example). Nguyen is fourth overall going into final table play with 3,275,000. Odds of winning: 5:1 just because he's Scotty Nguyen, baby.
Ran Azor: Who? What? Azor is fifth overall with 2,525,000. Odds of winning: 47:1.
Shannon Shorr: The common sentiment among most people upon hearing Shorr, the guy with the hot porn star sounding girl's name, made the final table has been, "Good for Shannon." The dude has been one of poker's most consistent performers and has been doing it the right way (except for
Final table play starts at 4pm PST.
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A total of 32 poker titles. Five WSOP bracelets. One WPT title. One $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. title. One WSOP Main Event title. And now, finally, Scotty Nguyen can add a Blue Diamond Almonds Bold Player of the Day to his long list of accomplishments.
With just 10 remaining, Nguyen holds the chip lead at the WPT Championship, stacked at 5,880,000. If Nguyen wins this tourney, he'll end up just a few hundred grand behind Jamie Gold as the all-time poker tournament money winner.
Nguyen is followed by Yevgeniy Timoshenko, a woman, with 5,105,000.
Also remaining is porn star Shannon Shorr with 3,155,000. Shorr has been one of the most consistent players on the circuit for the past few years, is always near the top of various Player of the Year standings, yet receives practically no pub. A WPT TV final table appearance at this championship would definitely change that…if people still watched the WPT on TV.
We keed. We keed.
Also still alive is ElkY Grospellier with 1,965,000. We get it ElkY, you're good. Enough already. Leave some tournament money for everyone else.
Full chip counts here.
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Ep. 11 w/ Jason Calacanis (@jason), Tom 'durrrr' Dwan (@Tom_Dwan), Todd 'Dan Druff' Witteles (@toddwitteles) and Jess Welman (@jesswelman)
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