Mike Matusow has been playing the victim since getting busted for dealing drugs nearly 18 years ago.

He got the 'white privilege' plea deal to do a 6 month jail stint, for selling copious amounts of drugs, and has played the victim ever since.

Matusow said he lost $5 million of the Full Tilt money on sports betting and $2 million on online poker. Maybe I am off a little on the amounts. He presumably was expecting a lot more Full Tilt money. However, regardless of how strong a player he was/is, he seems like a total degen to do that. I think more of a degen than a scammer.

Helmuth is a piece of garbage also but a brilliant marketer

Well he was in a wheelchair after braking his back, is bipolar and has adhd so yeah some issues. Not to forget the drug addiction that may have caused something permanent.

That tweet is unbelievable... Has to be some hardcore levelling right?

I don't know about that.

His marketing is just him whining and complaining and calling people morons on TV.

We live in a world where just talking alot is good marketing. Why u think Phil,
Mike, and people like Daniel are more famous than they should be.
I guess to be fair, it is more entertaining watching them than watching statues play poker

Same is true for Mayweather, Connor Mcgregor. Just talk & talk, and the more talk the
more PPV buys.

Anyone too can leverage fame into big money.

Like if Leo Dicaprio put out some cologne tomorrow, he would sell a huge number just based
off his fame. Not like he's a business genius or marketing genius. Just the leverage of fame

Wait a minute! So you're saying that the Olsen twins and Paris Hilton are not marketing geniuses?

The only reason Matusow got any fame whatsoever is he was lucky enough to be featured early on after Moneymaker won. Then they showed him on a few final tables where I am sure he played to the cameras and patented his 'Matusow blow up' and was a character to ESPN, someone that was interesting and fun for tv. And good for him, he maximized that fame and got Full Tilt to pay him a ridiculous $80,000 a month for literally nothing. As I mentioned before, it's funny how his playing style has changed once the Full Tilt gravy train stopped. No more all in bluffs with nothing, no more blow ups. Now he is as big a nit as there is. I saw him on a Hustler stream a few months ago the man I think played 4 hands in 4 hours, all premiums. That's it. When you get staked in tournaments and cash games and money actually means something notice how the playing style changes lol.

I do realize he does have AA lol, but I can't even imagine how he could have played it any worse ...

Love the Hellmuth he put 5k in with 76s. Yeah to win 42k something from the fish. That's like NL2 level awful by Matusow.

Was it hsp where Hellmuth bluffed him of aces or kings with 72o in some 3/4bet pot? There was a sidebet for winning with 72 that makes the fold even worse. He was playing with one bullet then.

Folding pre would technically be worse but he would lose less. As played it's a horror show, especially on the turn

Helmuth is also such a bellend

Wow that was the first time I saw that. Standard pre by MM, Flop is okay for me as well. But raising on the turn with that board? Raising? That is some crazy ****.

Something tells me that Phil on the inside was furious at MIke for how he played that hand on the turn. He had half of Matusow so I know that bothered him. On the outside he's criticizing Garrett but on the inside he knows Matusow should have gotten away from the hand after the 10k bet from Garrett. 100% Phil folds AA face up on that turn after Garrett bets 10k.

What am I missing?

Garret played that like a buffoon. He knew Mike was playing nitty and he three bets Mike. Then he calls a four bet from Mike with 7 high! Mike has Aces with and SPR<4 against a hand Garret should never ever have. Mike should've bet the turn, but other than that he played it well.

He’s entertaining but does perfectly embody the Trumptard personality where he constantly talks about personal responsibility despite being incredibly irresponsible. Some weird psychological projection going on.

He’s also obviously been a fish since 2004 or so but there’s easier money in podcasts and personal branding anyway, and there’s many more idiots out there who can’t manage money but want to project that anger onto other people, who can look up to someone like Mike.

As far as who he owes money to, that’s their problem, don’t see why we should care.

Only thing he does that affects me is the anti-vax stuff. It’s crazy cause I grew up in a pretty conservative part of the country and even in the land of Jesus, pickup trucks, and American flags, Jonas Salk was considered a hero in school for curing polio. Somehow because Trump was president during Covid the narrative became the virus was an anti-Trump hoax, then it became a partisan issue, even as Trump himself is telling people to get vaxed. Matusow himself was pro-vax for 5 minutes having talked to a pro Trump doctor but then backtracked.

The pandemic is the worst thing for poker since Black Friday and vaccines are the best way out and we need voices of reason in the poker community and unfortunately Matusow has both a big microphone and a voice of anti-reason. I’m ok with his antics at the tables and selling drugs etc but I want Covid to end so the anti-vax insanity is dealbreaker and if it continues anyone concerned about poker should boycott his podcast etc

Since when is 3betting nits playing like a buffoon? Folding ip 4b to obv QQ+ is meh. And bit lol to "he shouldn't never have that". They are playing what 400bb deep? Yeah Mike is the baffoon here when the turn hits.

It is interested he was convicted of selling drugs before becoming a TV pro. He may have been sort of set up by the undercover agent, but that indicates financial problems as well as maybe drug problems.

He seemed to be totally reckless with the Full Tilt money and just blew through it. Yeah, he was only worth a small fraction of the $1 million a year to Full Tilt, but Full Tilt had plenty of player deposit money to throw around.

Just like yesterday Matusow tweeted @ Prahlad Friedman that he misses their HU battles. Hindsight is 20/20 but he should probably have put that money he used for that in the bank instead lol. Don't even want to imagine what real world economic black holes Matusow has poured millions into considering that, and that he's too dumb to understand a The Onion article about poker.

Matusow's minraise on the turn in the AA vs. 76s hand is just terrible, but it is hard for him not to get stacked with AA against a flopped straight.

It seems significant that he was presumably broke and selling drugs before he got the huge Full Tilt contract and that may explain why all that money disappeared. I am not sure whether he could have done well then or now grinding games he could beat and blowing the money on whatever.

Actually it should have been very easy for Matusow not to be stacked with AA. I mean AA is only the best hand pre right? 8910 is not a great flop for AA. Him caling 5k on the flop is fine. But he should have folded on the turn or maybe call the 10k and fold to a big river bet. He was up a lot before that hand.

this is fish justification logic.

15+ years ago Matusow played in a cash game and a short time later was (unknowingly) talking smack on some radio show about bicyclekick, who happened to be in the game. ("Who's the red-headed kid who thinks he can play?") bicyclekick got wind of it, identified himself and then offered to play Matusow heads-up up to some huge number ($2k/$4k?). Matusow scurried away like the ***** that he is. It was a straight gangsta move by bicyclekick.

So are you bicyclekick?

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