Soi Nguyen November Nine Video Interview
Soi Nguyen is this year’s everyday average Joe as the only true amateur in the November Nine field. The oldest competitor remaining at 37-years-old, the Santa Ana, CA native is playing in just his fourth live poker tournament ever. He does have a cash in the L.A. Poker Classic to his credit, so he’s not completely inexperienced with big-time poker.
Nguyen explains during the interview that the big lights, cameras and huge crowds do not faze him for the World Series of Poker Main Event and the pageantry of the November Nine. He feels his inexperience might be able to actually be an asset, as he won’t be intimidated by anyone at the table. Finally, he talks about what it means to him to have survived this long and join poker’s elite in the biggest tournament in the world.
His big run began on Day 7 when he took the overall chip lead by winning a huge hand at the expense of Theo Jorgensen. He walks into the November Nine as the eighth largest chip stack (otherwise known as the second smallest) at 9.65 million.
Away from the poker tables, Nguyen works for Team Makena, a medical supplies distributor in Orange County, California. He is friends with a few professional poker players, which include David “Chino” Rheem. Throughout the tournament his friends railed him at the tables and cheered him on as he leveraged his large chip stack on Day 6 and 7 to a ticket to the final nine players. One critical hand was when he eliminated Patrick Eskandar in 20th place. Eskandar had already shoved all his chips in pre-flop and had gotten calls from Nguyen and Pascal LeFrancois. The flop came Q-9-T and when Nguyen bet, LeFrancois folded. Nguyen flipped over K-Q for top pair and a gutshot while Eskandar turned over A-7 for just Ace high. The board didn’t improve Eskandar who left the tournament.
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Poker lexicon:
- PAY OFF - Calling a bet with little expectation of winning, unless the opponent is bluffing.
- QUARTER - [1] Twenty-five dollars, often symbolized by a green casino chip. [2] To divide half a pot between two tying hands. In split pot games, a player who "ties" another player for their half of the pot is said to be "quartered". One might say "I didn't bet my A-2 because I figured I'd get quartered".
- TAPPED [OUT] - Out of money. Can refer to a player running out of money in the course of a hand, thus still active for the main pot; or can refer to a player who has lost his bankroll and can no longer play.
- FOURTH STREET - In stud poker, the fourth card dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the fourth community card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is TURN (q.v.).
- FLOP GAME - Any of a number of poker games where a flop is dealt.
- CUT - To break the deck into 2 stacks of at least 5 cards each. Usually performed by the player to the dealer's right to insure that the the deck is not stacked.
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