 Mike
“The Mouth” Matusow
Poker Player Profile
Mike “The Mouth”
Matusow is among the
most successful
professional poker
players.
He is ranked 7th
all time by
PokerPages.com with
career winnings
totaling $5,792,534.
He has six first
place finishes and
three bracelets.
In 2008 alone,
Matusow amassed over
$600,000 including
at the 39th World
Series of Poker 2008
WSOP No Limit Deuce
to Seven Lowball
where he won
$537,857, placing
first, and at the
39th World Series of
Poker 2008 WSOP
Omaha Hi/Lo where he
placed 5th and won
$138,063.
Born in Los Angeles,
California, Matusow
now resides in
Henderson, Nevada,
where he can better
hone his skill.
Matusow began
playing poker
seriously in the
early 1990s, first
while working as a
poker dealer, then
as a professional
player. His
successes also
include being the
winner of the 2005
World Series of
Poker Tournament of
Champions.
Matusow's first
experience of poker
was playing video
poker in the Maxim
Casino at the age of
18, which he played
regularly, to the
extent he suffered
from repetitive
strain injury in his
shoulders and arms.
He occasionally
stole money from his
mother's purse and
at one point
attended Gamblers
Anonymous meetings.
Arrest and Jail
Time
Mike “The Mouth”
Matusow is no
stranger to
controversy.
The professional
poker player
was arrested in 2003
at his Las Vegas
home for selling
drugs to an
undercover law
enforcement officer.
Specificially,
Matusow sold the
undercover agent
cocaine, Percocet
pills (a painkiller)
and Ecstasy pills (a
hallucinogen), the
media reports said.
In 2004, in court
and facing 10 years
in prison on the
charges, Matusow
copped a plea,
admitted to drug
trafficking and was
sentenced to six
months imprisonment
in the Clark County
Detention Center, a
Las Vegas jail, the
media reports said.
Matusow began
serving his sentence
in late 2004 and was
released from prison
in 2005.
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Ace King,
Gambling911.com
Originally published
June 28, 2008 12:26
am EST
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