Poker Table Talk Tips From the Master - Scotty Nguyen

With $11,702,955, @Thuan B. "Scotty" Nguyen ranks 12th in the world by live winnings. He has won FIVE WSOP bracelets - the most coveted decoration in the world of poker. He is the only player to have won both a WSOP Main Event (1998) and the H.O.R.S.E. Championship (2008) and has several WPT titles. Yet despite all of these accomplishments, Scotty Nguyen is likely to go down in poker history with the way he played and 'table-talked" his winning hand at the 1998 WSOP and his classic line: "Call it, and it's all over, baby".

Scotty has always acknowledged that #PokerTableTalk is an important part of his game. Here are some of his own thoughts and tips on the subject:

As the poker world knows I love to talk at the poker table and it’s not just for effect baby. Opponents often think too much about what you say to them, and if you can get into their heads, you can control their actions at the table.

If you have a good read on your opponent, and you can figure out what he is probably holding, then sometimes it doesn’t matter what two cards you have in your hand, because you can just play his.

The key is not to listen to what your opponent might say, but how comfortable he is when saying it. That is when you look for neck throbbing, slurred words, or a shaky voice.

Scotty Nguyen discussing poker with @Oliver Ali Nejad: