had him sit in a short handed PLO game at Aria. he announces that if anyone pots it PF, he's going to re-pot blind. he's got a stack of big chips with him. (waiting for seat in a big limit game).
some idiot nitty reg keeps complaining that he wants to 'play real poker'; (whatever that is). CM gets up and leaves the game, but luckily not before he pays off my str8 without ever looking at his cards at any point. I don't know, i love not playing 'real poker.' I love crazy Mike.
but that cute chick who is apparantly an ex-GF of his. what's her deal?

Bump, any news on crazy mike? Wheres he been, is he still around and living in arias poker room?

Seems to have fallen off the radar. We can all speculate why. Maybe there was a reason they let him pick the mix every time he played.

BUSTO

Mike basically stopped playing, he is now the manager / investor for a chain of drone stores called Drones Plus.

News stories about Drones Plus featuring Mike:

http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/27553...vegas-break-in

http://www.scrippsmedia.com/ktnv/new...284828101.html



Normally I would not post something like this, but it's no secret - every mixed game player on the west coast knows this story. Mike himself tells everyone within earshot how he is busto and owes some key players a bunch of money that he is paying off thanks to his work at Drones Plus. Mike can still be seen in the 40/80 mix game at Bellagio once every other month or so as far as I know. I believe he was also playing low stakes games online at wsop.com, he is a lot humbler now and less manic - but every once in a while a little bit the old personality comes out. Last I saw him was this past Spring, and I would assume that Mike would want this to be posted - he is a very open person. If I am wrong, my apologies Mike.

you know if i played plo with you once and insta remember most of the session after seeing you give a drone pitch you are a legend.

he doesn't seem that crazy at all

I had my differences with Mike but good to see he's getting things in order and I hope it all works out for him.

It's always hard to relate when NL/PLO players discuss the changing poker landscape and how hard it is to compete but when someone like Mike who I can relate too much more can't compete at the levels he used too to the point of going bust it's really eye opening. It's great that he has a business but from the pure poker perspective it's stunning

I just spat my drink out.

I cannot let this drivel go even though its probably against my own best interest but I basically feel there is zero chance crazy mike the scumbag will ever pay me a penny of what I am owed so whatever.

Mike is a real open person until he is lying to your face begging you for $ and swearing on everything he can think of that you will be paid back. He owes 7 figures, you think he is gonna pay every one back working at his store while randomly dumping off $ in 40/80 whenever he can afford a buyin? You are as delusional about him as I used to be.

Mike if you read this I'm still waiting for a penny of my $ you scumbag thief.

Hi Compete?

Mike was always a very anoying loser in Vegas cash games- a big loser.

He was considered a losing player in every type of poker he played.

Where his money came from is a mystery to me.

Mike often bragged he had won a fortune online. A few of the online accounts he claimed were his did show small winnings at heads up limit Hold em; however, he is well over seven figure loser in Vegas poker.

Others who claimed to know Mike well tell stories about him getting a large sum from his parents and how he worked very hard setting fire to the money with his crazy and horrible poker play.

I thought he was a reg at Aria?

Since we are bumping

Lmao bump#2

Doesn't surprise me in the least. If memory serves me correctly he was a 1 trick pony online who would only play heads up limit and was a winner. Then I heard stories of him playing some of the worst poker possible in mixed games at some decent stakes.

Amazing you let this Caitlyn Jenner wanna be beat you out of a bunch of money. Maybe if you tell him where you live he'll have a drone drop off 20 bucks a week till you're paid off?

Did justice occur in poker?

Every Crazy Mike game I've played in has been epic.

He isn't really crazy... but he is a bit manic. He pretended to be crazy to tilt his opponents and to help inflate his own ego, in reality this as known to backfire on him.

Ironically it was you who introduced me to Mike a decade ago, I was never close/trusted him much. I mostly kept my distance, in turn Mike usually avoided bothering me like he did with most other people. My post was relaying Mike's story - I never once said I believed he would pay everyone back. For what it's worth, I support you in this situation.

As for 40/80 mix, he told me the main person he owes allows him to play this game once in a rare while - who that person is or if it is true I don't know. Mike appears to have conned lots of live mix players into loaning/backing him including yourself... its no secret he has many enemies now because of this as well as due to his past behavior. As far as I am concerned, he is on his own - but I tend to take the middle ground whoever I post in NVG so I can avoid the drama as much as possible.

yep... but there were quite a few Vegas high stakes players who would spew off like a tilting rocketship while playing him. That doesn't make him a good player, but it did make him good at tilting others.

Most regs in Vegas are actually break even to losing players long term if the game is tough. Most regs survive on weaker players, in the higher stakes mix games being a reg could actually mean your the game's big fish in some situations.

Many would argue that Mike is a disturbed person pretending to be a normal person who is pretending to be a crazy person. Perhaps this thread should have been called: Just How Disturbed and Obnoxious Is Crazy Mike?

How "together in the head" is it to spend years trying to drive large groups of people up the wall with obnoxious and insulting behaviors. And doing this knowing you will get extra leeway because you are considered a compulsive sucker with serious money to lose?

Mike used to announce how much money he had left to lose before being totally broke, and he would do this on a regular basis. Players used to sit around and guess how long before the end.

How "together in the head" is it to go broke and super-smooth talk loans from fellow gamblers with false promises and flush that money down the toilet at the Aria and Bellagio? Mike used to tell everyone who would listen how honorable he was and he would do this on a regular basis.

No wonder Mike is trying his hand in the world of drone sales now.

.. more than one losing player got so disgusted with Mike that they quit the game. Mike would brag that if management barred him they would be saving him from losing all his money.

.. cap the betting in triple draw without looking at his cards and then on the next deal look at his starting cards, again cap the betting and draw 4 cards; buying in small no limit games and raising his entire stack blind, rebuy, repeat over and over.. But basically his non-crazy game was a big losing game.

The continuous darn right horrendous play spliced with rude behavior and was continuous. His act appears to have been real!

Degenerate gambler who owes a million+ has his expensive goods store broken in to four times in a year. I've no information this isn't kosher but it's certainly suspicious.

http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/29223...h-time-in-year

well this took an expected turn

LOL for your lack of reading comprehension.

Certainly looks suspicious cause it happened 4x in a year and Mike is promoting his drone products in the news reports about the robbery (which is in poor taste IMO), but you must have missed this part of the article Dean:

"Police caught those suspected of breaking into Drone Plus last time."