[troymclur]

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IMO the vaunted MMB is mostly self-promotion and bluster. He plays very solid for periods of time, then has a let-down. 99% of the poker pros out there do the same thing, but Mike has a strong enough personality (and talks so much smack) that his mistakes are hilighted.

Seeing every star-struck Internet qualifier who sat at MM's table ask, "Have you had your Mike Matasow blow-up yet?" was tiring.

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Sure, we all have our blow-ups but he seems to do it often enough in large tourneys that it really is a thing of beauty. In the hand I mentioned above there was no good reason for him to go AI with that flop and after a raise and especially considering that he was extrmemly angry right then. He put his entire tourney on the line on that bluff and if his oppenent had an ace and a high kicker he easily could have been gone and SS would have been gloating.

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You dont' understand. What he's trying to say is that MM "seeming" to have many blowups are a small kernel of truth magnified by the way ESPN shows it to us. We really don't know if he blows up 'all the time' or jsut a few times that happen to be aired all the time.

MM and even hellmuth happen to have poker friends. Do you really think they're an [censored] all the time like they are shown as? Its in thier best interest, from a buisness standpoint and a showboating standpoint, to make a good show.