Scotty Nguyen is second ahead of today’s dramatic showdown in the WPT World Championship - and if Scotty wins, he will take the WPT Player of the Year award.

- This will be a truly exciting Friday, and I am eying the title now baby, says Scotty.

Expekt.com ambassador Scotty Nguyen has had a successful spring, and this week he has been red-hot at Bellagio in Las Vegas among the heavyweight elite of the poker world.

Going into day 5 on Thursday in the WTP World Championship, with 941,000 in chips, Scotty ended the day with 2,637,000 in chips and is second among the ten remaining players. The key hand for the Expekt.com ambassador was when he doubled his chip count with a set of nines against David Williams.

- I got some good hands and it was just nice to play. Now my first goal is to reach the last 6 and the final table in a good position and then I will be eying the title, says Scotty.

If Scotty wins the tournament, he will become the WPT Player of the Year, having won most race points during the WPT season. Shawn Buchanan and Phil Hellmuth also have that chance, with former total leaders Faraz Jaka and Olivier Buzquet busting earlier in the tournament.

Scotty has made eight WPT final tables during his career, and he has won more than $12m in price money in live tournaments in total.

The winner in the WPT World Championship grabs $1,5m, while the runner-up cashes $1m.

Earlier this year, Scotty reached the final table in the WPT Doyle Brunson Classic, and he finished third in the NBC Heads-Up Championship after doing an amazing turnaround against Phil Ivey.  Scotty was down to 2,600 of a total of 80,000 chips when he did is own Houdini trick and won. He finished third in that tournament.

At the end of May, Scotty and Expekt.com are arranging Scotty’s Boot Camp in Las Vegas where ten lucky Expekt.com customers will get exclusive poker lessons from the world champion.

At the end of March, Scotty did a European tour with Expekt.com where he visited five countries in seven days to promote Scotty’s Boot Camp.

Final 10 standing WPT World Championship before tonight’s final play that resumes 21.00 CET at Bellagio:
1. John O´Shea - 3,174,000
2. Scotty Nguyen, Expekt.com – 2,637,000
3. David Benyamine – 2,561,000
4. David Williams – 2,549,000
5. Billy Baxter – 2,429,000
6. Eric Baldwin – 2,130,000
7. Cliff Josephy – 1,269,000
8. Shawn Buchanan – 1,087,000
9. Nikolay Evdakov – 922,000
10. Phil Hellmuth – 839,000

Pay-out structure:
1  $1,530,537
2  $1,034,715
3  $587,906
4  $329,228
5  $246,921
6  $199,888
7  $152,856
8  $105,823
9  $75,252
10 $56,439