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Some of you may have watched the most prestigious poker event this past Tuesday. The event is a 50k entry fee H.O.R.S.E. tournament where to win it, you must defeat the best players in the world at Holdem, Omaha hi low, Razz, Stud, and Stud eight or better, at slow blind intervals over 5 days. Scotty was swearing at one of the players and swearing at the waiter who was taking too much time bringing his Michelob which they had to cover with electrical tape to not piss off the sponsors.

Scotty Nguyen made a public apology for his actions that was posted on Cardplayer and Two Plus Two.

I’m not posting the lengthy apology, but I’ll show you a snippet:
I would like to ask for understanding of what really took place. Keep in mind this was a five day event, with an almost fourteen hour final table that was reduced to two hours of air time including all the commercial breaks.

People have to understand that poker is a business and that Scotty is only human and is playing for 2 million dollars. Scotty does deserve respect for winning this considering he is who I regard as the most under estimated and under rated players in poker. Let us also remember that Scotty Nguyen donated 50k the widow and unborn baby of a WPT cameraman Paul Hannum.

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This Event is no doubt what decides who the best “Poker” player in the world is. Eli Elezra is in first right now with about $550k, and Phil Ivey and Barry Greenstein are in 2nd and 3rd. These players and others that are in the top ten of this tournament play in the “Big Game”. The 50k buy in eliminates the idoits like that big asshole blowing guy that made it deep in the 2005 WSOP. And if the guy is a rich idoit donk, he will have to outplay tables that have little or no weak spots and beat 8 guys at the main forms of poker that they play everyday. On top of that the tournament is limit and has a good blind structure and starting chips.

Chip Reese won last year and is in tenth place right now defending his title. He beat Andy Bloch last year after getting lucky a few times against him. Although he was chip leader when the final table started.

Freddy Deeb has also slipped into the top ten while I’ve been writing this!

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