Mike Matusow

Mike was born in 1968 in Los Angeles, California. Mike is often referred to as the poker worlds “bad boy”. He is known for constantly trash talking and teasing his opponents to get them steaming. He is as well a very emotional player, and never holds back his outbursts at the table. All this has given him the nickname “The mouth”.

Mike has created the expression; The “Matusow blowups”. This expression is famous throughout the poker rooms, and means that you misjudge a series of hands that puts you completely out of the game due to critical and bad play.

Mike personal life has had some up and downs. Some years ago he had drug problems and spent six months in jail on drug charges which made him miss the 2004 world series of poker. Nowadays Mike has straightened out his life and has been clean for more then two years.

Even though he’s had his ups and downs in life, Mike has been able to finish in the money in dozens of high profile poker events, with total winnings of $3,821,508. He’s made a total of nine World Series of Poker final tables, and done well in the World Poker Tour as well.

His biggest win up to date is 2005 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions. This win gave him $1,000,000 and a lot of respect because of the topnotch field entered the tournament.