Mike “The Mouth” Matusow is a unique and colourful character in the world of poker, with around $7.4 million in live tournament wins and 3 WSOP bracelets to his name.
However, despite his obvious talent the 42 year-old pro has suffered from tilt issues in the past which has cost him days of hard play in the space of just a few minutes. In fact, so well-known is he for these outbursts that the term the “Mike Matusow Meltdown” is now a part of the poker dictionary.
True to form, Team Full Tilt member Mike Matusow went on a massive rant on his Tweet page this week after playing a $1k Super-Turbo Sit and Go on the site against a high-stakes pro called Scoss.
Apparently, the incident occurred during a hand in which Matusow’s opponent was deliberately trying to antagonise the volatile pro, and as he explains:
“Playing super turbos guy rses i ship 77 he types in i usually wouldnt call but i hear you run bad 1 sec left calls with aa name Scoss, scum.”
Although the Full Tilt pro might seemed to have gone a bit over the top calling one of the sites customers “scum,” his reaction is consistent with the aggrievement a player feels having been subjected to the massive breech in poker etiquette known as ‘slow-rolling.’
This frowned upon practice basically aims to upset an opponent by giving them the impression they are ahead or have won a hand, only to pull the rug out under their feet at the last moment. This unsportsmanlike behaviour also has the uncanny effect of putting many a player on instant tilt, as was the case with Matusow who later tweeted:
“Want everyone who knows this scumbag or is friends with him to know hes lucky i dont have him removed from full tilt name Scoss.”
However, if it was Scoss’ intention to induce a trademark Mike Matusow tilt it seemed to have worked and Scoss ended up winning all three of the $1,000 Heads-Up Sit-n-Go’s he played, while Matusow booked a $6,110 loss after eight games.
Unsportmanlike to slow-play a winning hand? You’ve got to be kidding – its a major part of poker strategy. Mike is a moron for even mentioning “kivking someone off FTP” in reaction. Put on your diaper Mike – you lost!
Why would Matusow be so stupid as to sit w/ scoss?
it wasn’t slowplaying – matusow already shoved – scoss waited until the last second to CALL the all-in – that’s certainly a slowroll and it is unquestionably unethical; that’s not to say matusow isn’t a whiny jerk – he is – but this slowroll was still wrong
Matusow is just upset that he got ran over by a superior player in Scoss. What a wuss.
loooooool…. Dan Colpoys slowrolled his ass one day also and Matusow went nuts and threatened to have him removed from the site. Dan then received a letter from Full Tilt stating that slowrolling violated the TOS and would not be tolerated. Mike get a life bro and start paying Ted that 2 milly u owe him cuzzo!
way to scoss!
way to go scoss..
make money money take money moneyyyy
Its quite obvous he was trying to get mike going, Who times out with AA anyway. He should be kicked out of the game for awhile.
lol yes scoss
guy just cant hang with scoss