March 13, 2006
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That first trip (on a junket a friend of his arranged), Nguyen walked the pokerstars strip and paused in front of Caesars Palace. It was a casino he had heard of, and after all, there was an electric, moving walkway to take him inside. And taken for a ride he was - to the tune of $2100, which he lost playing top 5 pokerstars .com at a $15/$30 table. Never mind that he had never played before, he was hooked. Men says he "Thought about that game all the next week back in LA, then scraped together all my money and went back the very next week." This time, he beat the pokerstars game, and subsequent trips led him to learn seven-card stud hi/low, and later, poker tournaments. Apparently, he was a fast study in tournaments, too, as he finished eighth in his first try. Back in Los Angeles, Men also won a Diamond Jim Brady, eight or better stud event for $27,000.
Seeing the great popularity of pokerstars texas hold'em, Men began playing in no-limit tournaments held at the Bicycle Club. Returning to Caesars Palace for the Amarillo Slim Poker Classic in 1988, Men says he "got very lucky playing against Johnny Chan, and just beat him when I didn't know any better than to lay my pokerstars hand down, but I have my own instincts, and let them guide me." In this tournament, Men knocked Chan out of the running, and chopped with another player for $44,000 - his biggest score at the time. He decided to invest his winnings in several businesses, but they took too much time away from his poker playing, and he sold them shortly thereafter.
In 1991, Men married his wife, Tuyet, and again became a father of the pokerstars download com. He says nothing is more important than his family, and he loves spending time with his children and his wife. The family is important, but along the way, Men has found time to play (and win) dozens and dozens of pokerstars tournaments. Nguyen is arguably the best, most successful tournament player to have never won the main event of the World Series of Poker, but don't get the idea that he hasn't been successful at the WSOP, or elsewhere. In fact, just the last few years saw him take first place at the Legends of Poker, the World Poker Challenge (in limit Omaha), and at the Bay 101 Shooting Star limit hold'em event.
