Cuong Soi Nguyen of the November Nine

August 20th, 2010

Featured November Nine Player Cuong Soi Nguyen

Cuong “Soi” Nguyen is an amateur poker player and the oldest of the November 9 finalist at the 2010 World Series of Poker. The 37 year old native of Santa Ana California has managed to take a seat nobody expected. Nguyen is medical supplies distributor, and has friends who play on tour and learned from them and playing with regular joe’s. Cuong Soi Nguyen is going to the finals with little to no experience, but that doesn’t mean he will lay down for the party, he intends to crash it. Many would argue it’s bad for poker to have him here, but he earned it so the sponsors and everybody will just have to accept it.

Mr. Nguyen has only 4 live tournament experiences under his belt, but he certainly has the soft underbelly of the beast. Cuong Soi Nguyen WSOP 2010 World Series of Poker performance has many observers scratching there heads, wondering how a guy with so little experience could be at a table with a Mizrachi or even a Joseph Cheong at November 9, however with that said this year’s finals does lack star status only Michael Mizrachi owns a bracelet.

Cuong Soi Nguyen’s ride to November 9 is now well documented especially in the style that he dropped people out of the chance at the final table. Nguyen left his mark on the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event with an attacking style and being able to pick up on other players weakness. Nguyen built his stack with big stack plays pressuring his opponents like an NFL defense might do. Nguyen amazed the crowds on day 7 to take the overall chip lead after winning the biggest pot of that point in the tournament, breezing past day 6 chip leader Theo Jorgensen.

Going in to the hand in the top five in chips with slightly over nine million, Nguyen check-raised a bet of 525,000 to 1.5 million in a threesome pot holding Kh-Jc with the board at Kc-5-h-9-c. Jorgenson wanting to bully his way to to the pot, pushed the action with a raise to four million, leaving Nguyen with a decision, one that would decide his tournament fate.

Nguyen went for it thinking K-J was the best hand and went all in for his remaining 7.62 million.

Jorgensen called and turned his nut flush draw with the Ac-3c and the two players itching to see the two most important cards of there lives. the dealer then proceeded to complete the action with the Td on the turn and the 3d on the river and with that the 19.52 million pot went to Nguyen and cementing him in the lead with 42 entrants left in the 2010 WSOP.

Cuong “Soi” Nguyen well arrive and take his place in November at the Rio in Las Vegas attempting to complete the unthinkable, an amateur winning the Super Bowl of Poker.

The odds say he won’t do it, but don’t tell Nguyen that he doesn’t no any better.

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