Final Level Beers Aplenty at Scotty Nguyen's table
There are many traditions at major sporting events. The winner of the Indy 500 drinks a bottle of milk. A champagne shower for the Formula One Podiums. Dumping Gatorade on winning coaches.
Poker has many varied and historic traditions, but none can be as widespread as the "beer level," the final level of the night during which the cocktail server is the most popular person in town.
At a table containing Scotty Nguyen and Arne Coulier, that tradition was in full flow — but with a twist!
The two aforementioned players had roped all but two others into a prop bet of sorts. Each seat was assigned numbers (with players six and seven sitting out), and whatever number was the first card on the flop, the person in that seat had to buy the round of beers.
As soon as players folded, they paid zero attention to the rest of the preflop action as they eagerly awaited the flop.
The flop came 
. All eyes looked at the player in Seat 7, who wasn't playing! Some rules were quickly drawn up that it should move to the next active player — Matt Livingston.
At time of writing, the players were just receiving their beverages.
"Cheers everybody," said Coulier. "Good luck in life!"