DEAUVILLE. To team up with world champion Scotty Nguyen for a live tournament is something of a dream for many poker players, but Expekt player Julian Kabitzke from Germany knows all about it now.

- Scotty is really a legend and a he is such a character, it is very special to play together with him, Kabitzke said.

Scotty Nguyen has entered Europe again and after a day in France he has already signed more autographs and has had more photographs taken than most of the close to 1,000 players will collect together over the next few days in this year’s EPT in Deauville.

In Deauville, a hot-shot coastal resort two hours from Paris, the winter has taken its firm grip, and the jet-setters that flock the streets during summer are nowhere to be seen, but the buzz is alive and kicking around the Casino Barriere where Scotty and his prospects from Expekt.com will battle it out on the poker tables from day 1b on Wednesday. Around €4 million will be in the pot. Can anyone of the Expekt players be up the there next to Scotty challenging for a place in the final table?

Well, Scotty, with five WSOP bracelets and $11,000,000 in total career earnings, says:

- These players have talent above the ordinary, I will do all my best to support them during the tournament, the Las Vegas poker daddy says, while watching his four young team members in the tournament, while they try to sort their clothes and hair before the photo-shoot at the casino.

If they can copy some of Scotty´s success in the live poker world they will get used to the attention.

Julian Kabitzke, the 22 year old from Chemnitz in eastern Germany, is one of the young, hot prospects in the online poker world. He is a high-raking player at Expekt.com and showed glimpses of what is to come in live poker when he won The One tournament in Monte Carlo last year, cashing €300,000 for the title

Jack Salter, two years older than Kabitzke and living in London, is another of Scotty Nguyens prospects with charisma and that young slugger attitude that he hopes will bring him success in the live world poker world. Bernhard Mössner, from Austria, and Andre Klebanov also teams up with Scotty in Deauville, and Klebanov, 22, have already tasted success in EPT when he came 3^rd in London in October last year.

- One of my goals in 2012 is to win a major live tournament and if it happens here it would be fantastic but I know it is really tough on the live circuit and a lot is about preparation and patience, says Jack Salter.

While Scotty Nguyen smiles he gives his followers at Expekt.com a final advice:

- The most important thing on the first day of a main event is to read the opponents and the table. Stay calm and don’t rush into things. Then you will be eaten. Found the easy targets on the table and you can build your stack for the coming days baby.

So shuffle up and deal. Let us see if the prospects at Expekt.com take Scotty’s advice up.

- Dan Vikman, Deauville, France

The players from Expekt.com in EPT Deauville

Name:  Julian Kabitzke
Age: 22
Lives in: Chemnitz, Germany
Played poker since: 2007

Name:  Jack Salter
Age: 24
Lives in: London, UK
Played poker since: 2007

Name:  Bernhard Mössner
Age: 28
Lives in: Vienna, Austria
Played poker since: 2000

Name:  Andre Klebanov
Age: 22
Lives in: Chemnitz, Germany
Played poker since: 2008

SCOTTY NGUYEN FACT FILE
Birthplace: Nha Trang,Vietnam
Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada
Nickname: The Prince of Poker

TOURING PROFESSIONAL PLAYER PROFILE
Career Highlights

• 2011: WSOP Event #47: Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better, 5^th, $53,091

• 2009: LA Poker Classic H.O.R.S.E, 1st $339,743

• 2008: WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E, 1st $1,989,120

• 2008: European Poker Championship _20,000 High Roller Event, $251,776

• 2007: WSOP Main Event Championship, 11th $476,926

• 2006: WPT Legends of Poker, 6th $133,095

• 2006: WPT Gold Strike Open, 1st $969,421

• 2005: WPT Jack Binion World Poker Open, 4th $336,282

• 2004: Festa Al Lago III $2000 Final, 1st 185,653

• 2004: WPT Mirage Poker Showdown, 5th $121,509

• 2004: WPT Part Poker Million, 6th $129.342

• 2001: Foxwoods World Poker Final 1st $ 159,600

• 2001: WSOP $5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Eight or Better

1st $ 207,580

• 2001: WSOP $2,500 Omaha (pot limit)

1st $ 178,480

• 1998: WSOP Main Event $10,000 No Limit Holdem, 1st $1,000,000

Total Career Earnings: $11,000,000