tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147025502012-01-16T15:14:44.893-05:00All about Full Tilt Poker Pro Mike Matusow. Keep up to date on his infamous melt downs, his outbursts, and everything else Matusow. Follow his tournament progress at WPT, WSOP, PPT, and other TV events.Sebastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12884702207653582387noreply@blogger.comBlogger2061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14702550.post-88286647677585790302011-09-16T04:48:00.006-04:002012-01-16T15:05:50.390-05:00

BetOnline.com is the latest poker room offering real money poker for USA players. For a list of real money poker sites in 2012, we recommend that you visit RealMoneyPoker.org

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I ran across a great little article called How People Build Poker Bankrolls that I thought was really interesting. Bankroll management is the downfall of many players. How many guys do you know that can play the game well but always seem to be begging for a buy-in or asking you if you'll stake them? For me, it's far too many. It's easy to learn about bankroll management but being disciplined

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Who would not enjoy a strong rematch? Funny enough , the WSOP is convinced poker fanatics will love to watch former adversaries go at it once more. The World Series of Poker launched a series of rematches from previous Main Event showdowns. The WSOP has done a great job deciding on the matchups, Chris Moneymaker vs. Sammy Farha (2003), Johnny Chan vs. Phil Hellmuth (1989), and the final they are

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Just in time for their Take 2 promotion Full Tilt Poker has unveiled the latest update consisting of several extra features, such as the ability to ask for non-public tourneys and your account history.The biggest change in the upgrade could be the private tournament functionality. Although Full Tilt has previously offered personal tournaments these were only available by getting in touch with

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Full Tilt Poker has recently announced its schedule of 2011 WSOP Qualifiers, many different ways players to get their seat at the world’s largest poker contest.Besides their itinerary of Direct Qualifiers, Full Tilt Poker offers the following approaches to win WSOP seats:$1 Main Event SeatsDaily Shootouts150 Seat Main Event GuaranteeRace to the Main EventSteps to the Main EventWhat's more,

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Qualifier tournaments are now running to Onyx Cup Series, which includes half a dozen impressive high-stakes live events with buy-ins from $100K to $300K. The six-event prize pool is predicted to get to $30 million - and you could possibly be there.Full Tilt's Onyx Cup Series Qualifier tourneys award $105K Onyx Cup Series Event 1 Prize Packages - that include the $100K buy-in plus $5K for

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Mike Matusow, also known as The Mouth, was born April 30, 1968 in Los Angeles California. Today Mike is a professional poker player residing in Henderson, Nevada. His nickname originates from the fact that he has acquired a reputation for trash talking at the tables. He is equally well-known for destroying hours or even days of good play with a single spectacular misjudgment, (known as a "Mike

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Take 2 with Full Tilt Poker to earn up to $25 Together with double the Full Tilt Points which you’d usually be given for playing within your preferred ring games.Going from Friday, April 8th to Sunday, April 17th, play at least two normal ring-game tables simultaneously or any sort of Rush Poker* table in the course of Take 2 to obtain double the Full Tilt Points. Play as often that you can

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The heartbreaking images and video coming from Japan following the massive earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear fallout have touched many people and now there's a way you can do something good. Full Tilt Poker is hosting a series of tournaments called Aid for Japan. Additionally Full Tilt Poker has Donation Tournaments which will also benefit the people of Japan. All funds collected will be

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Next week players on Full Tilt Poker will be treated to $30 million in guarantees. All weekly guarantee tournaments will have their guaranteed prize pool doubled. On top of that all doubled tournament will also be multi-entry format which means that you have even more chances to win. The last 12 hours of the promotion will see all weekly guaranteed tournaments have their guarantees tripled!

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If you love the FTOPS series of tournaments you'll surely love the MiniFTOPS XIX which is the same idea but with smaller buy-ins. Full Tilt will be running the MiniFTOPS XIX from March 6th and running through March 20th. The MiniFTOPS XIX features 45 events with low buy-ins, superb tournament structures and big payouts. In total, $8 million is guaranteed is prize pools. And everybody who

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The British television show, The Poker Lounge, is gearing up for a new season and Full Tilt Poker wants to send you. Some of the best players in the world like Phil Ivey will be playing $120K winner take all SnG's. One of those players could be you if you're lucky enough. The Poker Lounge package from Full Tilt Poker is valued at $22K and you can qualify via daily freerools. Each day Full

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Phil Hellmuth, holding 72o, keeps bluffing into Matusow's KK and Mike lays it down. Mike completely played this hand incorrectly.

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Just saw a tweet from Mike Matusow (and retweeted by his brother Scott) pimping some free online poker room at a site called "Make Poker Legal" Mike and his brother have been retweeting posts for some time now and I can only imagine that either Mike owns a piece of this or he's pimping a free online poker site for a friend.It's also possible that this is somehow Full Tilt Poker related but I

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Yes, it's that time again. Full Tilt will be running 34 events under the banner of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series and you could get your hands on some serious cash. The FTOPS starts on August 4th with a $750K online poker tournament and wraps up with a $3 million main event. All in all $19 million is on the table in guaranteed tournaments.All of the normal events you would expect from the

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Mike Matusow's prop bet with Ted Forrest ended with Matusow and Justin Smith having to pay Forrest $2 million. Back in May, Smith and Matusow bet Forrest that he couldn't lose 50 pounds by July 15. If he did, they would pay him $2 million. If he missed he had a second shot at the 50 lbs loss if he could get his weight down by September 15th. If he made the September date he would get *only* $1

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Here's a great little way to pocket up to $250 next week courtesy of Full Tilt Poker. If you play in Full Tilt's Rush Poker cash games Full Tilt Poker is willing to throw a little money at you to make it worth your while.Earn at least 10 Full Tilt Points (FTP's) per day for four days and earn $5If you earn at least 10 FTP's per day the entire week they'll give you $10Crank it up a bit and if you

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Mike Matusow finished day 2 of the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions as chipleader with an impressive 85,500 in tournament chips. But all is not good news for Mike since the original schedule had players coming back on July 4th for the final table. The only problem is that not enough players have busted out (I guess that's the risk you take having a field of some of the best pros in

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You gotta give it up for this one-time taxi cab driver who has battled the poker world to become not just a well respected Full Tilt pro but now a WSOP bracelet winner. Gavin took down the $2,500 buy-in mixed holdem event for a prize of $268K.Smith who is known for crazy prop bets with his PokerRoad partner Joe Sebok is one of those good guys in the poker community. Always good for a laugh,

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This week saw the first airing of Full Tilt Poker's, The Poker Lounge, in the UK market (Channel 4). One Full Tilt qualifier matched wits with Team Full Tilt players like Phil Ivey and Gus Hansen.The format is a $20K buy-in where six players battle it out for a chance at a winner-take-all $120K prize pool. Each week one online qualifier will play against a table of sharks supplied from Full Tilt

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It should come as no surprise that one of the best and most liked players in the world received the most votes for to be included in the WSOP Tournament of Champions event. Phil will join other top pros such as Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Phil hellmuth, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Johnny Chan, Howard Lederer, Greg Raymer, Mike Matusow, Annie Duke, and Barry Greenstein for a chance to win the

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Until Sunday June 20th you can get in on Full Tilt Poker’s WSOP Main Event Week which has more than 200 WSOP seats up for grabs. At least five WSOP Main Event prize packages will be available daily. The finale of the WSOP Main Event Week will be a $640 buy-in 150 Seat Guarantee on Sunday June 20th at 18:00 ET.The prize packages include a $10,000 Main Event buy-in plus $2000 in spending money for

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A few years back Mike Matusow and Ted Forrest entered into a prop bet that stipulated that Matusow had to lose 60 pounds. Mike's prize was a nice $100,000 for his efforts.Fast forward to the 2010 WSOP and Forrest and Matusow are at it again. At stake is up to $2 million except this time around it is Forrest who has to shed some poundage. Forrest who is 5' 11" and weighs 188 pounds bet Matusow

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An interesting hand when Mike flops a Q high flush and his opponent with only a draw to an ace high flush pushes and forces Mike off the hand. Play online poker with Mike at Full Tilt Poker!

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Things are only looking up for Mike's fellow Team Full Tilt Pro Phil Ivey. After having a spectacular 2009 WSOP which included making the final table of the main event, Ivey placed second in the Aussie Millions $100K challenge which put his career winnings just over the top of Daniel Negreanu. Phil Ivey has $12,813,990 in career tournament cashes and Negreanu is in second place with $12,432,367

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Warning: Rush Poker is extremely fast paced – prepare yourself for the most intense poker action in the world!Available exclusively at Full Tilt Poker, Rush Poker is the ultimate high-speed poker experience.This new poker format is designed to minimize your wait time between hands and keep you in the action. You’ll join a large player pool and face a different table of opponents every hand you

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Win your share of $25 million in guaranteed tournament prize pools with Full Tilt Poker’s $25 Million Double Guarantees Week.For one week only – Monday, January 25th through Sunday, January 31st – we’re doubling the guaranteed prize money for every one of our Weekly Guarantees tournaments, culminating in the biggest Big Money Sunday ever.Click here for more information.

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Full tilt Poker pro player Gus Hansen has decided to take some time off after losing $5.3 million in 2009.

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It's only a partial video to get you excited about joining but you can watch play and hear his thoughts as he mixes it up for a few hands in PLO NL.

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Here's an exclusive offer from Suited Rags for a 404 page compilation of tips from the pro players at Full Tilt Poker. They've rounded up tips from Mike Matusow, Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon, and many others. And the best part is that this eBook is free!! All you have to do is sign up for a rakeback account at Rakeback Report and the eBook is yours free.Check out the

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Mike is behind with his top pair to two pair on the flop but decides to get into a raising war with the two pair which put his opponent almost all in ($25 behind) on the flop. Turn opens up some draws and the last $25 goes in with the river making Mike's straight draw and winning him the pot. 2009 WSOP Main Event

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We all know that Full Tilt Poker is the place where Mike Matusow and some of our favorite pros like to play but did you also know that Full Tilt Poker is offering you the opportunity to win a seat into not just one, but two different WPT events in beautiful California? Yes, you can win a seat into either the WPT LA Poker Classic at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles or the WPT Bay 101 Shooting

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Are you looking to get your SnG groove on? Well, Full Tilt Poker is running a fantastic promo this weekend. From Friday through Sunday play like a madman on Full Tilt's SnG's and they've got a ton of prizes up for grabs. Leaderboards, raffles, freerolls . . . you name it. This has a lot of value if you're a regular SnG player. Click here for more information on SnG Madness at Full Tilt Poker.

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Even great players can make mistakes and this just goes to prove that point as Mike Matusow tosses in his cards when he thinks Eli Elezra is making a big raise. The problem is, since Eli didn't declare a raise his tossing of a wad of cash was a simple call and Mike mucked his hand even though he had Eli beat.

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Horrible bad beat for Mike. AJ for Matusow vs. A9. Flop comes two aces and when a nine hits on the turn Mike calls off all his chips at the WSOP Main Event. Unlike his previous blowups he handled this pretty well and it just goes to show how far he's come over the last several years.

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Not everyone gets to study from the masters but some lucky folks will be able to take home some tips from some of the masters of the game. The World Poker Tour (WPT) will be hosting another series of bootcamps where top players like Mike Matusow, TJ Cloutier, Todd Brunson, and Mike Sexton will share their poker wisdom with you. You might want to think twice if you're playing the microlimits

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Playing in a field that included Phil Ivey, Allen Cunningham, Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan, Mike Matusow and Gus Hansen Dwan stunned everyone present at teh Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game by taking down $1.2 million in a single hand. That was the largest cash game hand every won on televised poker. Dwan bet out and Ivey raised him SB. Dwan called. The flop was Qc-5c-3d. Ivey bets

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Mike takes a suckout in stride. Haha, just kidding. He rants and raves and calls his opponent all sorts of names.

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One of their infamous battles. Raymer as we all know went on to win the WSOP Main Event and Mike . . . well, he cried.

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Matusow gets it in with Jacks against Cunningham's 9's and Cunningham spikes a 9 on the turn to leave Mike drawing dead.

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This is a hilarious video of Scotty Nguyen and Mike Matusow discussing an incident where Mike received a phone call and text message at the same time while pulling out of a casino and ended up plowing into Scotty's Jag. Watch Mike Matusow Crashes into Scotty Nguyens Jaguar on RawVegas.tv

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Here's an interesting article on how you can make a living playing poker.

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Watch Mike lose it when Erik Seidel sucks out runner runner sevens to make a bigger two pair than Mike.

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Want a free copy of Mike's new book Check Raising the Devil? All you have to do is go to Full Tilt Poker and play in four daily freerolls between now and June 30. Click here for more information on how to signup for a free copy of Mike's book.

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Gambling911 interviews Mike about his book and dealing with his mental illness.

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As usual..Matusow does NOT disappoint, June 12, 2009By G. Swiantek "sports nut" (Derby, KS) You might "think" you know Mike Matusow....but I'm guessing you really don't! This insightful book into the Vegas world of "The Mouth" is a must read for poker fans. Couldn't put it down!!--Fascinating read about a fascinating person, June 11, 2009By Venice (Michigan, USA) I got more than I expected -

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She doesn't go into a lot of detail but she does comment that as unbelievable as some of the things in the book sound she knows either from hearing them from Mike at the time or through mutual friends that they are true. It's a really wonderful writeup from someone who obviously knows him.

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The title pretty much says it but here's the link to the Mike Matusow training videos. You have to click on Pros and then Guest Pros. Not sure why Card Player has such a screwy linking structure.

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How would you like to play against Full Tilt pros like Mike Matusow and get up to 27% of the rake you're paying refunded to you? On top of that you're also eligible for a 100% signup bonus up to $600! Check it out today . . . Rakeback Report

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A great summary of the new Check-Raising the Devil: The Mike Matusow Autobiography by Tao of Poker's, Dr. Pauly. It's been widely known in poker circles that Matusow had a penchant for street drugs for many years for both recreational and self-medicating purposes. His struggles with drugs affected his poker play in both positive and negative ways. The book discusses that aspect in great detail..

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Here's a couple of hands Mike plays of $200/$400 Omaha H/L with Mike giving commentary on his hands.

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Mike gets all his money in with AJ vs. 88 and spikes a J on the river.

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If you ever wanted to get lessons from one of the best players in the world, Mike Matusow, you may now have your chance. Full Tilt Poker has opened the doors to the Full Tilt Poker Academy (check the link at the very bottom of the page). The Full Tilt Poker Academy features videos, quizzes, podcasts, challenges and prizes going to the Academy's most gifted students. While many sites offer poker

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Check out this installment where Mike discusses the FTOPS, All-Star Weekend and the superuser scandal.

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Mike takes on a $100K bet to lose 60lbs. Check out the new Mike Matusow.

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Would you like to get $600 and the chance to play against Mike "The Mouth" Matusow? Follow this link over to Mike's favorite poker room, Full TIlt Poker, and Full Tilt will match whatever you deposit with them up to $600. As you play poker on the site and earn points they will incrementally release your $600 matching bonus to you. And as we all know, Mike plays a lot of poker on Full Tilt so

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Nice hand between Gus Hansen and Mike Matusow at the Full Tilt Poker Million Dollar Cash Game. Mike makes a strategic stop bet on the end trying to get a free showdown on a scary board but Hansen foils his efforts.

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Mike always talks about how unlucky he is. He proves it here missing a red/black bet at roulette.

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Mike Matusow's fellow Full Tilt pro Chris "Jesus" Ferguson is doing very well at the WPT LAPC event. Ferguson has ended Day 4 as chip leader with 1,721,000 in chips. As many readers are already aware, Ferguson already has a WSOP Main Event bracelet to his list of accomplishments and has run very well in the NBC Heads Up Championships. Most recently he's been making the news attempting to turn

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Watch one of the most incredible hands you'll ever see in this High Stakes Poker Season 5 teaser. The look on Hachem's face at the end is priceless.

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The powers that be have released the list of players who will be in the NBC Heads-Up Championship. Fortunately Mr. Mike Matusow is again a featured player. 1. David Benyamine2. Andy Bloch3. Chad Brown4. Doyle Brunson5. Johnny Chan6. Don Cheadle7. Glen Chorny8. Allen Cunningham9. Ivan Demidov10. Annie Duke11. Tom Dwan12. Peter Eastgate13. Eli Elezra14. Antonio Esfandiari15. Sam Farha16. Chris

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Mike Matusow: on ffirst hand like im bluffing there lol DaEvils: what's funy mike is how you feel like talking trash Dealer: Christian Kruel wins the pot (50) Dealer: Hand #7672236374 DaEvils: when you played your hand about as bad as possible Mike Matusow: love to play all u idiots live Dealer: SpanishKey has 15 seconds left to act DaEvils: mike i swear to god DaEvils: i will

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Nice audio file of Dr. Pauly and The Poker Shrink discuss Matusow's drug enhanced play.  As many people know Matusow is taking prescribed drugs to control his bipolar tendencies.  The Poker Shrink discusses how these drugs impact Mike and what impact they have on his play. Check it out.

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Flipchip the every entertaining photographer and blogger from LasVegasVegas.com picks Mike Matusow as his favorite to win the WSOP ME.  Flipchip figures Mike's focused determination this year will give him the bracelet. 

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A really excellent write up on Mike Matusow.  Here's one of the juicier bits: Matusow managed to lose $250,000 in prison, more or less his entire bankroll, betting sports. But the more devastating loss, which didn’t become apparent until later, was a mix-up in his medication: Somehow he’d stopped taking Depakote, a mood stabilizer designed to combat his manic depression. There was enough

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1 Hieu "Tony" Ma 2 Jason Gray 3 Ram Vaswani 4 Toto Leonidas 5 Berry Johnston 6 David Chiu 7 Mike Matusow 8 David Benyamine 9 Greg Jamison 10 Eugene Katchalov

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Mike played the short stack against some of the very best players in the world to capture his third WSOP bracelet in Event #18 ($5,000 No Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw).  The final seven were Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, Erick Lindgren, David Benyamine, Tony G, Jeffrey Lisandro, and Tom Schneider so this was no cake-walk for Mike.  Mike picked up $537.862 for his efforts.

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While it's easy to love or hate Mike due to his antics at the table, nobody can argue that he's a hell of a poker player when he's focused.  That is evidenced by the fact that Mike has just made his 8th WSOP final table in only 9 years.  An impressive feat.  MIke is in the final 7 left in event 18 - $5,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw With Rebuys.  His opponents include: Erick Lindgren Jeffrey Lisandro

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Mike recently weighed in at 179 pounds which was all he needed in order to win his $100,000 bet with Ted Forrest.  ESPN was there for Mike weighing in in his underwear so expect to see that disgusting exciting site during the WSOP coverage.  For those of you who don't remember; Ted and Mike made a $100,000 wager last year on whether or not Mike could lose 56 lbs by June 3rd, 2008. 

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You've gotta love Daniel rubbing it in.  

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Brian Hastings asked Mike Matusow how he could get a hold of him and Matusow typed in his AIM account in the chat box.  The obvious occurred and Mike was bombarded with people contacting him. BTW his screen name is alwaysrivered

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Watch Mike "The Mouth" Matusow lose $20,000 on tennis.

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Mike picks up pocket nines on an eight high board against Eli Elezra.  Flop is 862 rainbow.  Elezra is holding A8.  Mike checks, Eli best $1000 and Mike check-raises it to $2500.  Turn is another 2.  Mike is first to act and fires out a $2500 bet.  Elezra pulls out a $10,000 stack of cash and tosses it in without saying anything.  As most people know, but apparently not Mike, throwing in an

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Mike Matusow becomes an instructor over at PokerSavvy+. Although Mike is joining a respected roster of players including Ansky, WPTHero, Fisherman, Ike and Tribefan9 he is by far the biggest name pro to join up with a poker coaching site. The obviously leads to more questions about Mike's financial situation.

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Poker After Dark is about to kick off season three and they've lined up an impressive table of players. The table will include Mike Matusow, Jennifer Harman, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Scotty Nguyen, and new-comer Ken Light. Should make for some great poker entertainment.

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Site was hacked into CLARIFICATIONI DID NOT WRITE THAT POST ABOUT MIKE concerning mne not working for mike anymore!! it was a FORMER buddy who was mad at me and had the pass to get into the blog.. Please pass this along.. This is Scott Matusow, everything in that blog was horse poop. I just now am seeing it all over the net.. so pleae again, pass this along.. Scott

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Interesting story brewing.

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Mike "The Mouth" Matusow has officially signed with iAmplifyVegas to develop poker content. The new video series will bring Matusow's unique perspective on poker play to the masses and will be offered through iAmplifyVegas.com.

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1. Roy Winston, Rancho Mirage, CA $1,575,280 2. Heung Yoon, Woodbridge, VA $832,725 3. Harabalos Voulgaris, Los Angeles, CA $434,560 4. Mark Weitzman, Las Vegas, NV $380,240 5. Eugene Todd, Brooklyn, NY $325,920 6. Michael Matusow, Henderson, NV $271,600 7. John C. Kranyak, New York, NY $217,280 8. Zvi Shiff Miami, FL $162,960 9. Loi Phan, Seattle, WA $108,640 10. Dale Pinchot, Yardley, PA $70,616

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Phil Ivey's favorite site, Full Tilt Poker, is sending players to the Moscow Millions with a $15K prize package. Starting as little as $4 + $.40 or 50 Full Tilt Points can get you on your way to visiting the "Paris of the East" and playing side by side with some of your Full Tilt pros.

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Before Mike was eliminated he had a bit of an incident with Mr. Peanut. According to the Casino City TImes:Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack was not amused when Mike Matusow tackled WSOP guest sponsor Mr. Peanut. Matusow and Mr. Peanut got into a friendly disagreement when Mr. Peanut refused to come over to Matusow's table. Matusow tackled the famous icon, but the nimble Mr. Peanut was get able get

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Check it out.

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Mike pushed with pocket threes and got called by pocket jacks. Mike's hand didn't improve and he was sent to the rail.See PokerNews for the details.

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Mike picked up $88K when he went out in 16th place in the $50K buy-in HORSE event which many pros consider to be the real main event. (Omaha 8 or Better) Amnon Filippi has the button in seat 2, Wolff limps for 25,000, Matusow raises to 50,000, and Wolff calls. The flop comes {5-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{2-Clubs}, Wolff bets 25,000, Matusow moves all in for 50,000, and Wolff calls with A-Q-6-3 -- a

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Just missing his first final table at the 2007 WSOP, Mike Matusow exits Event 19 in 11th place. Mike lost a good part of his stack to Humberto Brenes when Brenes pushed all-in from the SB. Mike called in the BB with JJ. Brenes showed AQ and hit his Q on the flop.A few hands later, Mike raises $60K from the button. Devin Porter pushes all-in from the SB. Mike shows JJ again and Porter shows

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Bodog Nation is running a two parter interview with Mike.EXCLUSIVE: Mike the Mouth Speaks Part, IEXCLUSIVE: Mike the Mouth Speaks Part, IIWhen I was about 21 I was pretty much a lost soul without knowing what I wanted to do. I wasn't much good at anything till I got into poker. I was an absolute genius at it and maybe one of the only things at which I'm really good at in life. I tell people all

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Not much to say other than go check out the article over at PokerNews.

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Well known poker journalist Amy Calistri will be co-writing a book about Mike Matusow. She wasn't quite ready to let the cat out of the bag but Mike announced it to everyone withing hearing distance the other day so she felt the need to confirm it. Here's what Amy said on her personal blog about the opportunity to work with Mike.When Mike was sentenced on drug related charges back in 2004, I

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According to The Poker Biz, poker pro Ted Forrest made a prop bet with Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow on Day 1 of the WSOP. If he can lose the 56 pounds then Forrest will pay Mike $100,000. Wow, talk about motivation! But, seems like Mike was looking to shoot an angle on the bet when his weight increased from 234 to 237 before the details got worked out between the two players. Forrest commented “

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Here's a few of my favorites:DFP: Do you prefer online or live poker?MM: I love live, but online I'm addicted way too much!! DFP: Where do you see poker going in the next 10 years?MM: It will taper off and slow down. I see the main event back under 2000 people within 5 years.DFP: How did you build your bankroll? What game and stakes did you play at first? How many times, if ever, have you gone

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Matt Matros tells of a hand where Mike really put him to making a decision and Matt made the wrong one.

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Interesting (though somewhat arguable) post by Poker King about why some big name pros are stuck. He mentions Mike specifically saying:10. Unsuccessful online cash game play. Ask Mike Matusow about this, who has dropped over $2.5 million dollars playing online. Sometimes, successful live player just does not translate to successful play online.

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The odds below were published by Betus.com for making the final table at the 2007 WSOP Main Event. Mike is +5000 which isn't bad when you look at how other players are ranked. Might even be worth it to throw a few bucks down on Phil Ivey too.Phil Ivey +1400Phil Hellmuth +2500Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson +2500Daniel Negreanu +1800Erik Seidel +4000Scotty Nguyen +4000Dan Harrington +4000Johnny Chan +

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Listening to Matusow talk about losing money is like listening to a hooker talk about losing her virginity. You expect it to be interesting- but all you end up thinking is God I'm glad I'm not you.--Apefish, on 2+2Hat tip to F-Train

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