Scotty Nguyen acts like a buffoon at HORSE final table

[nsidestrate]

I only saw bits and pieces of the telecast, but it appeared to me that Scotty was way out of line at the final table. In addition to being drunk and abusive (pretty much a hallmark of his play all the time), he did several things that were pretty much automatic sit-out penalties or worse. I saw one hand where Michael DiMichelle was facing a decision on 7th street where Scotty showed his down cards to the crowd. In another he openly told Eric Lindgren that he was trying to protect Eric's tourney life ("I bet so you could raise to protect your hand") and in another hand he folded AAxx in O8 in an extremely questionable spot that could have eliminated Eric who held A2QQ and needed to catch a low to chop. Eric even went out of his way to distance himself, saying "I'm not a member of Team Scotty and I never will be"

[thew92]

I was thinking the same thing as I was watching. I have lost a lot of respect for Scotty after seeing this.

[taz115]

Here is 10 min montage of his antics including cursing his opponents out, cursing out the waitress service, showing the audience his cards, soft playing Lindgren and dropping like 25 f-bombs.

How did he not get penalized? Would they let an unknow go crazy like this?

I like it when Lindgren gives him some grief back.

[chrisjp]

I also only watched a few minutes. Just awful.

It's a sad day for poker and a ratings day for Harrahs and ESPN. What a shame. Hellmuth's ruling was one thing....but after seeing how Men was pampered at my table, and now this ridiculous response, or lack thereof, by Harrahs to Scottie's behavior all I can say is....

[maf66]

This was mentioned a while back on PokerRoad Radio. I haven't seen the footage yet, but I think it's disgraceful that tournament officials let these "superstars" like Scotty, Men the Master, Phil Helmuth, etc get away with this sort of behaviour all the time.

Yet you can guarantee if we acted like that, we'd been penalised straight away.

[taz115]

I linked to it in y above post if anyone didn't catch that. Its not the FT, just a bunch of clips of Scotty acting like an idiot.

[PauliF]

oh I loved Lingren's attitude and the way he dealt with it

I must admit that if anyone spoke to me like that at a poker table I would be wanting to take it outside and that goes for much of Helmuths behaviour

btw have you guys seen this classic

I watch it everytime I make a right move and get called by the top of the other fella's range.... it is "standard" after all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY3b27vZwYk

[dankimball]

i was like wow this is absurb....could not believe the way he acted i have met scotty several occasions and this seem a little out of character.....i think the demichele antics earlier set him off or something was def wrong with course the 12pack dont help at the table

[Scully]

What's funny is that in an interview with a UK poker magazine Scotty claimed not to have been drunk and it was all an act.

The televisual evidence suggests otherwise and from that clip he comes across a total a-hole.

The Hellmuth clip is just class though

[artistic2]

First, I thought they had an "F-Bomb" rule at the WSOP, right?? This was really bad.....the drunkeness, the foul and just plain rotten table behavior. I was glad to see Lindgren say something back at him. He looked pretty annoyed with Scotty's behavior. And let us not forget Scotty's equally drunk rail buddy Layne Flack for acting like an S.O.B too. Lindgren wanted no part of him at the end either. What a mess...........yikes!

[krazytxan]

I watched that clip that Taz linked and it was utterly disgusting.
I have the ESPN one taped and will just hit ERASE.

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[Taardvark]

You definitely saw a dark side to Scotty in this. Really unfortunate. This kind of stuff is one of the big reasons I try not to mix drinking and poker.

[evil_roy]

That was great.

More real cards in that last bit of the tournament than all the fake garbage that has been served up on TV over the years.

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