Men Nguyen Professional Poker Player Review Series
By: Brian Garvin
Submitted: 2008-10-19 07:25:42 | Word Count: 500
Men Nguyen happens to be a very popular Vietnamese American poker professional. He was born in the year of 1954 in Phan Thiet in Vietnam. He has attained such mastery in the game of poker that he if very often referred to as Men The Master Nguyen. Men Nguyen spent his early years with his family. He put an end to his education dropping out from the school in the year of 1967 when he was a mere teenager of 13. The tight financial condition of his family compelled him to take up a job so that he could fend for himself and for his family. Almost immediately he became a bus driver.
The next phase of the life of Men Nguyen is very interesting. He happened to be a staunch anti Communist. He somehow managed to escape from the Communist Regime of Vietnam and sailed on boat to Pulau Besar in Malaysia in the year of 1978. It is not that he escaped alone. He had 87 compatriots with him on his way to Malaysia. Things in Men Nguyen s life started changing when he received political asylum from the United States of America in the very same year. After he had got it, he moved to Los Angeles in California and settled there permanently. He came to avail the citizenship of the United States of America in the year of 1986.
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Men Nguyen was introduced to the game of poker in the year of 1984 when he tried with the poker game for the first time in all his life during his junket to Las Vegas in Nevada. Once he started playing the game, he got terribly interested in poker. He started playing the game quite frequently on almost every weekend. Quite unfortunately and quite amazingly he used to lose hundreds of dollars, resulting in his being nicknamed as the Money Machine . Despite being defeated frequently and losing hundreds of dollars Men Nguyen was found to have lost no interest in poker. Rather, in the process of losing again and again, he learnt much on poker picking up the tricks of the game, which enabled him to become a master of the game in the later times.
The fact that Men Nguyen really became the master of the game of poker is best testified by his achievements as a Professional Poker Player. Within the time span from 2000 till 2004, he took part in more than 75 poker tournaments at various levels. Most interestingly, he has more than one hundred and twenty money finishes to his credit. Nguyen became the Card Player Magazine Player of the year for four times in the years of 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2005.
Apart from being a successful poker professional himself, Men Nguyen is also very successful in the field of tutoring others and preparing them as experts in the game of poker. He even tutored Minh Nguyen and David Pham who happened to be his cousins. Binion Behnen, the grandson of Benny Binion opines that Men has been a trainer to many more poker champions.
