Loool same!

AWESOME intro music. That music was as good as the the early 2010s theme was bad.

Absolutely

Dan Harrington was the best of that era. 2nd Phil Helmuth. MM was probably 5th.

I think Matusow was the first player to win $1 million+ in 2 tournaments in the same year. Now there are tournaments that are a $1million dollar buy in. He was the master at big fields back then. 2004 had like 4000+ players and 2005 I think 5000+. And 2008 he went deep got 30 out of like 5500

Dan Harrington if we talking tourneys

He dropped the F bomb, which is a penalty in a WSOP tournament. Admittedly it’s not always enforced (I.e. Hellmuth) but it was within the rules to penalize Matusow for dropping the F bomb in retaliation.

@@Scott-wq5lk yeah, but the penaltys shouldnt be the same for both players.

Steve Dannemann As an Aussie I obviously wanted Diamond Joe win, however, can i just say from all the footage that I have seen over the last couple of years on youtube, you played so well, but not just that, you played with grace, integrity and seemed like a genuinely nice person, i think you said to Joe heads up, Can you believe we are sitting here, or something like that, I thought that was great,

@Steven Dannenmann I remember watching this and thinking how much of a nice and charismatic person you were.

Hey man, you were great on TV and you honestly played really well!

You still in MD? Wanna play some golf sometime?

History by Mike.

Apparently his ego is in check now yet constantly says these things 🤣

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nope

how are you recovering,with metadone? or something else

btw i dont play poker at the moment, but heroin made me play really good poker. without it, they would read me as a book. but with it, i was almost unbeatable. they couldn read me lol

Obviously, he's saying his stack would play from that point on like he was the boss. The 75 percent was just an exaggeration.

@T. de Goeij Its a joke that you modern punks think you are always-ys better at everything than everyone else, LOL. But of course, you aten;t, the WW2 Vets were better real men than you metro sexual punks.

15:30 is a great example, sean has that pretty AK, but it,s only 6 outs.... Maybe. Mike could have a set. The guys i play with would never fold AK there and of course theyd spike thier card. Lol

Like what..shawn is known bug businessman with loads of cash lolol owns restaurants rub and tugs etc haha..he is loaded so what things u speak of ,nobody is innocent in life

@@trevorstrutt1 statutory rape, beating women and bank fraud to name a few. Look it up

Steve, ive won some tourneys, ( small ones). And i got lucky everytime, but all those loser hands i FOLDED? Thats skill!

what did he do ?

nhpja65 he had to go to jail for something he didn’t do, exactly. He didn’t rat, as was requested by the authorities, therefore having to go to jail. That is why he says it like that, even though he terms it in a mistaken manner.

he did not go to jail for 'NOT RATTING' He was charged with a CRIME he COMMITTED.

nhpja65 I know exactly what he did, according to his claims. I’m saying why he is saying it like that. He was being accused of being a drug dealer(and not just a drug doer with an abundance of drugs). So being a “drug dealer” is something he didn’t do, cooperating is something, once again, he didn’t do, according to him. You’re parsing words and so isn’t he. Give the guy a fucking break, he looks like he’s a had a pretty rough last ten years. If anything he deserves credit for being able to put on a happy face from time to time. I sure as hell know that I wouldn’t be able to, and i probably haven’t had it half as bad as he has. And, once again, if he went to jail and his claim is that he didn’t rat and he shut his mouth, that is exactly why he went to jail, cause if he did rat he would’ve avoided jail.

Im old school from the projects, i never cared for mike until i heard he didnt rat, now i root for him.

But we were and you weren’t....

Matusow was a convicted drugs dealer, Sheikhan was a convicted child molester. You meet a better quality person at the poker table.

It's in his book, Check Raising the Devil. Basically he had a reputation for drug use. What happened is, IIRC, is that Matusow set up a drug transaction for a friend of a friend. The friend turned out to be a Metro undercover narc. It's a common lament of people who are involved in personal drug usage. A "friend" says "do me a favor this one time and get me X amount. (usually felony weight) Sometimes they just give the friend the drug and don't ask for money. It doesn't matter. It won't save you. Selling drugs is much worse than possession for personal use. You are a "drug dealer". Regardless, Mike had to cop and do some local jail time. Mike was set up but every person busted for a drug sale is set up. Still, other than recreational use, Mike appears to have been a square John. He had no priors and wasn't known as a dealer.