Posted by Johnnymac | August 29, 2008 3:17 PM
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Posted by Dr Fro | August 28, 2008 11:47 AM
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I found a pretty good write up of the Scotty Nguyen issue. It has links to his non-apology and to another article on the topic.
What seems to always get mentioned but is lost in the long list of grievances is the collusion attempt. That isn’t just breaking the rules it is cheating (i.e., breaking the rules to your advantage). He should be shot for that.
Posted by Junelli | August 26, 2008 9:22 PM
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Q: How do you get a professional poker player off your front porch?
A: Pay him for the pizza.
Posted by Dr Fro | August 26, 2008 8:51 AM
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Preseason rankings are out.
A&M claims a moral victory – they didn’t lose, they just ran out of time. That, and they won at halftime, too. And anyway, it is all hogwash because UT controls the media.
How bout them Red Raiders?
Posted by Dr Fro | August 21, 2008 5:40 PM
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There has been discussion on more than one blog about Scotty Nguyen’s behavior in the $50k HORSE event that was televised on ESPN two days ago. I watched it on Tivo last night and my jaw was on the floor. Just a sampling of my thoughts:
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Scotty was cussing like a sailor, and there was no action taken to address it
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Scotty was drunk. He was obviously drunk. Htf do you get drunk with a $2m prize pool on the line?
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Wtf was Layne Flack doing coming up to the table?
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Michael DeMichelle behaved perfectly fine. Norman Chad said he was also guilty, but Scotty was worse. I disagree. Michael’s responses were measured. I have no problem with him bowing to his friends in the audience, and I certainly have no problem with his jabs at Scotty after Scotty tried to humiliate him on TV.
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Erik Lindgren made some interesting comments. He told Scottty that he was never part of the “Scotty Train” or something like that. He then shook Michael’s hand, ignored Scotty and told the audience that he wanted the “kid” to win. Wow.
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Is it just me or did Scotty BLATANTLy try to collude with Erik. Watch the hand that he folded to Erik and listen to the three comments he made about it. WTF?
If you haven’t seen the episode, you should. Scotty is a scumbag. I bet that a lot of poker players are scumbags, even the ones that come off as good guys on T.V., but I bet Erik Lindgren is a good guy. He certainly handled himself well in the HORSE event.
If I am EVER on ESPN, I will say nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Not only would I avoid talking smack, I wouldn’t even say nice things that could be edited down to come across as trashtalking. ESPN very much tries to paint a (one dimensional) picture of each player. I will not give then anything to work with. Scotty sure did.
