Name: Mike Matusow
Birth date: 30 April 1968.
Birth place: Los Angeles, California.
Top: 3 bracelets WSOP, 25 times ITM, 3 final tables WPT, $ 6,800,000.
Nickname: Kid poker.
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Name: Mike Matusow |
Difficult to remain indifferent to Mike "The Mouth" Matusow. As of other strong head it attracts the eye of the cameras for its continued talking trash and life that it brings to a table. It sometimes exceeds the bounds and his eternal babillement can be tiring for certain players but after a few emissions, it emerges the kindness and a fairly fragile be much appreciated by his peers than the chambrage.
Mike Matusow is a player to the particular route. Like many he discovered the poker and game being very young but descended lower than the majority of players. Thus it has stolen money to his mother, he joined the Gambleurs anonymous to eventually discover in 1989 poker from Steve Samaroff, a professional player. That is how it has won its first 53 sessions repartant with the sum of $ 250,000 51.
In 1990, Mike Matusow becomes dealer but quickly abandoned work to become a professional player.
With the advent of television poker, a personality as Mike Matusow is a windfall for producers and Mike Matusow quickly acquires a great reputation as "The Mouth" and becomes the third idea trio cameras stone: Phil Hellmuth, TonyG and Mike Matusow.
Mike Matusow is deemed to be able to go on spin on one hand without valid reason and gave name to two phenomena: Mike Matusow Blow-up and Mike Matusow Meltdown that characterizes both an inexplicable blow on the part of a player. But beyond this reputation, it must be stressed that "The Mouth" is a great player poker with $ 6,800,000 gains more which places on top20 players won much planet poker money.
It is part of the Fulltilt team Poker although Mike repeatedly acknowledged that he was very difficult to play online where it could not read his opponents, preferring so widely power trash-talk live to better read.
Among the wildest bets made by Mike Matusow, he won $ 100,000 against Ted Forrest gambling might weigh 90 kilos (181 pounds). The fateful day on 3 June 2008, it weighed 89 kilos (179 pounds).
Finally, we must point out the dark side of Mike Matusow has long suffered from a problem of dependence on cocaine, which including led him in prison for 6 months between 2004 and 2005.
Mike Matusow won 3 bracelets in series of tournaments in the world in 2008, last year marked by the domination of the professional poker players.
The WSOP main Event was also epic for him. In 1998 he Scotty Nguyen stake for a satellite for this tournament. Scotty eventually win the tournament and reverse $ 333,333 to Mike. In 2001, he finished the main Event 6th and bluffer by Carlos Mortensen future winner of the tournament, on a decisive hand. In 2004, ESPN cameras are focused on his duel with Greg Raymer but Mike Matusow fails once more in 9th place on 5,619 participants récolant still crossing $ 1,000,000.
Total Mike Matusow completed 25 times in placed paid to the WSOP.
| 2008 : $5,000 No Limit 2-7 Draw avec rebuys | $537,862 |
| 2002 : $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8 or better | $148,520 |
| 1999 : $3,500 No Limit Hold'em | $265,475 |
The most beautiful Mike Matusow performance dates back to 2004 where he finished 3rd in Aruba WPT and WINS $ 250,000. In 2006 it finishing in 2nd place in the WPT Bad Boys Of Poker II but it is a tournament final table invitation.
Other performance: as all players with a donation to attract the cameras, and under contract with FullTilt Poker, more Mike Matusow has multiplied the appearances in different poker emissions.
The most famous include Poker After Dark where Mike Matusow is a regular guest, and in High Stakes Poker where his most famous hand is against Phil Hellmuth, it succeeded in placing a bluff with 2-7 against a pair of Kings to Mike Matusow.