Mike has stolen from his family - source -
Scott Matusow and Mike on occasion

Mike is known to have "borrowed" from Daniel $150,000 about 5-6 years ago and paid back $0. Source Mike Matusow and Daniel Negreanu on The Mouthpiece Podcast.

Mike owes hundreds of thousands and will not pay back - source- The Mouthpiece from Mike himself

He continues to spout his views that call for personal responsibility yet he takes none on his own.

He claims he wins at poker, yet pays none of his debts. Time for this scum to be ostracized from the community.

Disappointing yes, surprising no. Poker players as a whole are just degens, especially the old school players. Why is this shocking?

Someone kind that clip of Annie Duke saying something like.... the great thing about a poker player is I can lend anyone in this room hundreds of thousands and know they are good for it

Um is this supposed to be some kind of surprising info? He screwed Ted Forrest out of $1,000,000 on that weight loss bet. You could start a thread about thousands of poker players just like Matusow.

I wanna sarcastically say "Right, so why even bring it up"
But honestly, at this point why even bring it up...
Just another on the list of 25+ known players who are sh-t bags, called out, everyone says "Ya, sure I can see it", and zero repercussions.

He'll be on Poker Go with Eli, some embezzler, a guy who ran a rigged home game, and a guy who ghosted on an app, laughing it up and plugging a podcast or book

The saddest part of this to me is the fact Mike's and a lot of peoples Eigo's are so massive.
Mike actually thinks he's one of the worlds best. As other's have stated, he's so good
yet he can't pay off anything and he's in debt.

I've heard himself say he's the best plo8 player in the world.
HE LITERALLY SUCKS AT THE GAME
The mistakes i've seen him make AWFUL

I feel more sad for the future when I hear stuff like this. Such a massive gap between
how good he thinks he is, and how good he actually is.

Complete dellusional.

His book check raising the devil is absolutely amazing.

Anyone can see that he's not a winning player anymore.

Whoever lent him money made a very foolish, irresponsible decision.

I still have time for Mike though. He clearly has his problems, but he is one of the few characters left in the game.

He does some dumb things, but so does every human.

It is problematic that Phil Hellmuth seems to consider Mike to be one of his best poker buddies.

Harming your health, potentially for life, fooling yourself into thinking that Mike Matusow is a man of his word isn't exactly the smartest thing I've ever heard of.

As for the OP, the headline doesn't qualify as News, Views or Gossip.

I would imagine he’s owed more than he’s borrowed especially if you consider obligations from ftp/Russ Hamilton cheating him. It’s sad but poker is comprised of some of the sickest sociopaths in existence and it just warps some people especially the dillusional like mike

Mike suks up to Phil, so Phil will stake him, and let him play in Phil's private game where they fleece rich Hollywood types.

Mike might be homeless if it wasn't for Phil keeping him afloat.

Who are the people who stake or lend money to these obviously losing players? Lynne Ji is another one who is potentially staked even though she is clearly a losing player.

His ego is beyond massive and he likes to talk about how he was the best NL player in the world 20 years ago which
1)isn't true
2) if it was who cares where is the money from it?

He actually thinks being good at poker is some accomplishment when the bottom line is poker is played for money so being dead broke and "good" at poker doesn't mean anything.
Being 53 years old and in terrible health (which I don't wish on everyone) and HAVING to grind the WSOP series on other people's money is miserable and pathetic considering how much money he had.

He thinks grinding a bunch of small field limit poker events and making a few final tables a year with almost no chips when he gets there is some big accomplishment when it isn't. It's just the law of averages. The guy plays like a mega nit and puts himself in a situation where he loses one 60/40 and he's out and thinks that's some terrible run bad.

He also thinks he's run bad at poker. He's run better than anyone who has ever sat at a poker table. He made millions of of full tilt and wants to cry about run bad. It's a joke. Him punting it away isn't running bad.

I can't stand him after the way he soft ball interviewed Mike Postle while high on drugs after doing zero research and being almost completey unfamiliar with the actual allegations against Postle

He obviously would have paid all his debts if it hadn't been for Twitter demanding that he sells all his BTC.

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and also kept all of this bitcoin the entire time

He’s in debt? Thought he was gonna open a poker room in Austin for like half a million.

Being in debt isn't exactly a bad thing- technically Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are in debt- they leverage their businesses for money all the time- they make more money than what the debt ends up being and its profitable to pay back. Now- being a scum bag self proclaimed worlds best poker player and constantly taking bets and not paying is another thing.

Also, even if he was DEAD broke- he could find people to give him the half a million as an investment for the poker room. Business is a weird thing-

Best business advice I ever received was don't invest your own money.

Matusow debts are over 10m right if I had to guess right?
Guy clearly hasn't won in forever, and keeps on complaining/bragging about his debts for > 10 years.

The whole initial scenario is so stupid anyway, as if he really had been such a good player, he wouldn't have needed to borrow money, so the warning signs were there from the start.

I don't know about this.

Word

Matusow has been around forever. Of course the OP's detailed content is news to some NVG members. OP offers views on Matusows behavior and what others should do about Matusow. However, OP might not be gossiping since he indicated sources for his views.