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Anyone but the "Mouth" !!!!!!!!!!!

Would poker be as big as it is today had Mike Matusow been at the final table or won it instead of Moneymaker?

From cardplayer.com

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 16:28:00
Title: Matusow and Sheikhan
Log: Matusow and Sheikhan continue lobbing insults and taunts at one another, much to the delight of the crowd. One of them appears to be taking it much more seriously than the other. We won't say which one, but it's not Matusow.

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 16:36:00
Title: Comedy Hour at the Binion's
Log: While Mike Matusow and Shawn Sheikhan continue to banter back and forth on table 117. Scott Lazar, in the two seat on table 129 leaned back from the table and decided to join in the banter. Lazar leaned back and suggested, "Switch that table to decaf!" The joke lightened the escalating confrontation between Matusow and Sheikhan.

Date / Time: 2005-07-14 23:26:00
Title: WSOP or WWE
Log: At the final table, it is hard to tell if we are at the World Series of Poker or a World Wrestling Entertainment event. Mike "The Mouth" Matusow and Shahram "Iron Sheik" Sheikhan have tossed verbal jabs at one another all day, It just got a little Jerry Springer like at the final table when Matusow went into a long diatribe about giving Shahram a million bucks and then beating him out of it on the felt. The crowd went nuts, Sheikhan’s supporters started pushing towards the stage and someone was escorted out the doors by security. The tension is high with $24 million up for grabs between the remaining players.

The guy is just an idiot. I still remember him yelling at Raymer and then crying like a little girl when he got busted.

ANYONE BUT THE MOUTH!!!!

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After last year's World Series I would have agreed with you. But everything I have read, seen and heard since then has made me really like Mike and I am definitely pulling for him this year. At this point another amateur winning is not going to increase the pool of fish for anything except the WSOP qualifiers. Mike sometimes acts like an ass at the table, but its his way of needling people (and is a hell of a lot better than H-Dog's tactics). Mike is a pro who lets his emotions out a little too much and it is clear that others who know him understand this and that they generally feel he is a great guy. Even he and Raymer have become friendly this year after last years incidents, and Mike seemed genuinely disgusted about the play that took Raymer out.

I guess this is a longwinded way of saying GO MIKE, show everyone that the pro's can still do it in the donkfest that is the ME.