Matusow stuck 40K

[Les_Worm]

I've been watching him for a while and hes stuck about 4ok into this game.

FullTiltPoker Game #175057324: Table Kennedy (6 max) - $50/$100 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:33:09 ET - 2005/08/04
Seat 1: Mike Matusow ($14,739.50)
Seat 4: hotntot ($56,059)
Seat 5: schnizeltoe ($9,150)
Mike Matusow posts the small blind of $50
hotntot posts the big blind of $100
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
schnizeltoe raises to $300
Mike Matusow calls $250
hotntot calls $200
*** FLOP *** [7s 8s 3h]
Mike Matusow bets $500
hotntot calls $500
schnizeltoe folds
*** TURN *** [7s 8s 3h] [5h]
Mike Matusow bets $1,900
hotntot raises to $3,800
Mike Matusow raises to $13,939.50, and is all in
hotntot calls $10,139.50
Mike Matusow shows [Ad Qd]
hotntot shows [4s 6s]
*** RIVER *** [7s 8s 3h 5h] [Qc]
Mike Matusow shows a pair of Queens
hotntot shows a straight, Eight high
hotntot wins the pot ($29,778) with a straight, Eight high
Mike Matusow: oops
Mike Matusow is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $29,779 | Rake $1
Board: [7s 8s 3h 5h Qc]
Seat 1: Mike Matusow (small blind) showed [Ad Qd] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 4: hotntot (big blind) showed [4s 6s] and won ($29,778) with a straight, Eight high
Seat 5: schnizeltoe (button) folded on the Flop

[Demiparadigm]

Mike Matusow: oops
Mike Matusow is sitting out

LOL....


From what I hear, Matusow is a pretty big winner in this game.
and after His $1M cash in the WSOP, $40K probably isn't too bad a hit to his BR.

[spino1i]

From what I know of high-stakes shorthanded (since I play it lol), he seems to be playing very poorly. You cant get away with playing that loose and trying to bluff everyone out by going all-in everyhand. It just doesnt work. Its not that LAG is bad, but he's just playing too laggy, and he's just gonna be paying people off who are setting bear traps.

[Les_Worm]

matusow said he know hotntot had a hand but didn't know it was that good. he thought he could take him off of it. matusow immediately reloaded for another 10k.

[WhooFleuryScores]

after His $1M cash in the WSOP, $40K probably isn't too bad a hit to his BR.

It'd be like us dropping a $25 buy in at the 25NL table.Most of us have some sort of income to keeps us from going insane if we get cleaned out on a hand.

But yeah 40K is still kinda insane regardless.

[sisqo]

It's all relative, right... but still, man...

[ender555]

matusow isn't just blindly trying to throw people off there hands. I watch the 50/100 game every day over there, and every single move they do is based on what they think the other person has. You guy's should check out mahatma, i think he pulls a mil a year off this game. green plastic is good too.

[BobbySalami]

Ive never seen Matusow have a winning session on FTP...I saw him drop $60k to Allen Cunningham one night....and then another 10-20k playing with Paul Wolfe and JJ.....

Maybe I just catch him at the wrong times?

[cartilago77]

The rake is only $1 in a 30G pot on fulltilt?

[andr3w321]

The rake is only $1 in a 30G pot on fulltilt?

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/rake.php

Basically if there's only 3 people in the hand the max rake taken is $1 regardless of the stakes.

[Smack29]

He is pretty much broke from what Paul Phillips thinks.
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classic matusow
The new issue of cardplayer has an interview with mike matusow. Apparently it's not online yet but it's a highly entertaining read. Those of you who aren't personally acquainted with mike may not know that it's easy to dislike mike when you first meet him (trust me, I sure did) but almost impossible to dislike him after you've known him for a while. He's quite a character. So I'm mostly laughing with mike on this one and only a little bit at him.

MK: Still, a million dollars is a pretty good score.
MM: I needed to make one of the top three places. Number nine doesn't mean anything to me. It just enables me to pay off a few markers.

Ouch, is he saying he's millions in debt? That's unfortunate. It's interesting to me that people often believe they can gamble their way out of debt that deep when gambling is what buried them in the first place.

MK: Does the notion of going broke bother you?
MM: I have people I can borrow money from. I don't worry about money. When things get bad, my mom asks how I will pay bills. I say, "Ma, shut up. Have I ever worried about money?" I don't worry about money. Somebody will always loan me money.

Then a bit later:

MM: [...] Right now there is probably not a human being in the world with less regard for money than me. I make bets for thousands of dollars that I know I can't win. I was at the poker table once and made a $5,000 bet with Howard Lederer that Shawshank Redemption won best picture. Doyle Brunson told me not to make that bet because he made it once and lost. Of course, I didn't listen, and had to give Howard $5,000.

It's funny to imagine people lining up to loan him money when he talks like that. "You may as well just be lighting this on fire, but don't worry, I'll pay you back."

MK: [...] your last hand against him [Raymer] was pretty much a coin flip, with your pair of nines against his two overcards and four to a flush. That was when he outdrew you.
MM: So, if it's fifty-fifty, would you want to go in holding a made hand or needing to make a hand?
MK: [STUNNED SILENCE]

I made up the stunned silence part. He doesn't even comment on that answer. GREAT MOMENTS IN MATHEMATICS!

[graven29]

from what i hear Matusow lost $700K since the WSOP win of $1M. It is in the Interview that (Bluff Magazine or ESPN) did with him (i can't recall which one). If that is relevant.