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Scotty Nguyen outsmarts tough competition at the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. final table, wins 5th bracelet
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2008-06-30 15:01
Given the names that squared off at the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E event’s final table, it had been an easy guess form the get-go that it would take someone lewd, shrewd and just a little bit on the extreme side to win this bracelet. If anybody, Scotty Nguyen fits that description perfectly.
He started the day in second place, just a few thousand chips off Erick Lindgren’s leading stack of 3,680,000. Also present at the final table were Huck Seed, with 1,200,000 chips, Barry Greenstein (1,955,000), Lyle Berman (1,430,000), Michael DeMichele (The chip leader from Day 3), Matt Glanz and the short-stack: Patrick Bueno (695,000 chips). It took Scotty a grueling 5 days to hack through an extremely select field of top poker professionals to win his 5th golden bracelet, a $1,989,120 prize and the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy.
Patrick Bueno, the short-stack, was the first to leave the final table. Despite the fact that he had been around the top of the chip-count leaderboard almost all through the event, he ran out of gas as he made a pair of 4s against Lindgren’s 8-low in a Razz round and was sent to the rail in 8th.
The next elimination took quite some time, as everyone was deep-stacked and in no hurry to get to the rail. Huck Seed went up against Michael DeMichele in a round of Stud Hi-Lo as the latter made a good low and a flush for the high to oust him in 7th position.
Barry Greenstein would be the next to fall, in another round of Stud Hi-lo at the hands of the eventual winner. Nguyen made three 7s for the high, and Greenstein failed to make a low to stay alive.
The deep-stacked crowd settled in to play again, and it was quite a while until Lyle Berman was forced to leave. Matt Glanz fell next to Scotty Nguyen’s flush high and nut low in an Omaha Hi-Lo round.
Erick Lindgren was eliminated in 3rd – again – by Scotty Nguyen, who built a 4:1 chip lead this way over Michael DeMichele going into the heads-up stage.
The final hand was a Holdem one in which Nguyen made a pair of aces with a superior kicker and eliminated DeMichele, not before warning him that it was going to be all over.
