High-Stakes Poker Master
By AAN Staff
may 15, 2003 11:00 am
Men Nguyen is a seven-card poker stud with 20 Visa cards at his disposal and a half-dozen lock-boxes containing hundreds of thousands of dollars. He travels with a band of adoring cardsharp proteges, fellow Vietnamese refugees, who tithe a percentage of their winnings to him while reverently calling him “Master.” LA Weekly's Michael Kaplan follows Nguyen into his tight-knit Vietnamese community and the world of high-stakes poker.