Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 WSOP, Doyle Brunson, Justin "Boosted J" Smith, Mike Matusow
Written today, two months later -
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 WSOP, Mike Matusow
No matter what we get out of this
I know we’ll never forget
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky.
-Deep Purple, “Smoke on the Water”
This is what I stayed up 42 fucking hours to play?
This fucking hellhole?
-Mike Matusow
4 AM, June 16, 2010, Las Vegas - Read the rest of this entry »
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 WSOP, Media Life
One of my challenges during a reporting assignment like the World Series of Poker – or the NBC Heads-Up Championship in March, or the World Series of Poker-Europe on which I’ll be embarking in 2 ½ weeks – is resolving the conflict between gathering information and reporting information. I accomplished the “gathering” at the World Series by watching updates online, hanging out at the Full Tilt suite, visiting with Harrah’s personnel, playing tournaments and satellites, wandering the Final Table areas, trading stories with my colleagues in the media, watching tournaments in which I wasn’t playing or had busted, striking up conversations with pros, etc. etc. etc.
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It took 12 sessions over 13 days, and more than 18 hours on the last of them, but we have our Final Table for the Main Event, and Shauna and I can finally go home. And yes, at least one familiar face made this elite group culled from 7,319 starters: Michael “Grinder” Mizrachi held on, fighting from a short stack the entire night, sitting Ivey-like in seventh place coming into the final table. Seven of the final nine were wearing the Full Tilt colors on Saturday.
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(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 WSOP, Ted Forrest, Weight Loss
WILL THE REAL TED FORREST PLEASE BULK UP?
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(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 WSOP, Justin "Boosted J" Smith, Mike Matusow, Ted Forrest, Weight Loss
After dinner and drinks at the Commerce in May, Ted Forrest, Mike Matusow, and Justin Smith outlined the terms of a weight-loss prop bet destined to upstage the Main Event of the 2010 World Series of Poker. The $2 million wager, which required Forrest to lose nearly 50 pounds in less than 2 ½ months, will certainly go down in gambling history as one of the most famous proposition bets ever.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 WSOP, Justin "Boosted J" Smith, Mike Matusow, Ted Forrest, Weight Loss
How can you understand what it feels like to walk into a grocery store after having gone without eating for eleven days? It’s unimaginable, but I can, after watching Ted Forrest do just that at a Smith’s Grocery store in Henderson on Tuesday night, provide a couple of analogies:
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(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 WSOP, Mike Matusow, Ted Forrest, Weight Loss
At this point, I admit that I became too close to a story that was already making me feel uncomfortable. Apart from my shock at Ted Forrest’s appearance, I was now helping him hunt down Mike Matusow. On the one hand, Mike’s a friend, Ted and Mike were friends, and I’d done such errands before. On the other, Matusow now owed Forrest two million dollars. If Ted was willing to go to such extreme measures, who knew what Mike – clearly and publicly profoundly depressed over both the possibility he would (a) owe Ted Forrest two million dollars, and (b) be responsible for Forrest’s death – would do? He already backed out of the televised weigh-in.
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(9 votes, average: 4.11 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 WSOP, Mike Matusow, Ted Forrest, Weight Loss
When Ted Forrest said to me “we’ll keep in touch” as he exited the Pavilion Room, I couldn’t have imagined that I would hear from him within ten minutes. Shauna and I practically ran to my car in the Convention Center parking lot so we could get back home, tell this story, and post these pictures. On consideration, however, I suppose it was inevitable that Ted would call me. When he and his group left at 7:20pm to “wake Matusow the hell up,” they neglected one important fact: they didn’t know where Mike lived.
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