The Epic Downfall of Mike Matusow in the 2004 WSOP Main Event
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2021
- Mike 'The Mouth' Matusow is known for his epic blow-ups but do you remember his first big one on national TV? Go back in time and watch Matusow square off against Greg Raymer and many others in the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event.
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Just when you think watching Helmuth losing is a great thing, here comes Matusow…
Why are so may of these clips 15 years old? No new interesting players after that?
@@jamescollier3 your question is the answer lol
😅😅😅yes
@@jamescollier3 the Golden age, when the old school legends were crashing into the young guns who were crashing into the internet phenoms.
Damn Mikey do it again..
"Thank you for busting me, Mike." Still one of the greatest one - liners in WSOP history.
I felt the same way when i heard it. My favorite part is when Matusow try to ignore the comment and just pretend he didn't ear the blast.
If Raymer calls the all-in on hand Matusow got knocked out on, Raymer would have flopped trip 8s and turned a boat while knocking out two players. Raymer was destined to win that tournament. He ran so well especially in heads-up hands.
Nah, that's got to be "This guy can't even spell 'poker'"
Greg should buy a cheap bracelet, engrave that quote, send it to Mike as a gift and sign a card with: From your 2004 World Series of Poker Champion, Greg Raymer
Raymer is no angel. I heard he was actually Hitler in a previous life and he eats kittens.
Matusow: I have steel balls
Also Matusow: *cries*
😂😂😂
Underrated
excellent point
Went from Duke Nukem to Nancy Kerrigan
Well to be fair, steel balls is more about having courage than about not showing emotions.
When his opponent wins due to a Q on the river, it's horrible luck, but when he won due to a 7 on the river it meant he was a genius, playing the best poker of his life.
Yeah, that was great
raymer full of 8..^^ "the chosen!"
Unfortunately, the river is part of the game. Depends how you get there - did you get it in with the best and get unlucky - or get a bluff called but still have a chance on the river. If not one of those scenario's you prolly made the wrong move.
I mean in tournament play that’s a shove all day with both.
Mike said he was "on fire" after the seven hit. He himself acknowledged he was running hot.
"Thank you for busting me Mike" - the guy who won the tournament
Did he?
@@gordongoodman8342 yup
that’s just the cherry on top
People may not realize that was a world class call by Mike.
@@joelewertow7115 Even if he had the best hand he was only 46%. It can’t be a world class call if you have worse equity
Played the best poker of my life man🤣🤣🤣🤣 calls 9 7 off middle pair for a big chunk just because he had a vendetta against Raymer
Eh, he made a read and went with it and was right. He just got unlucky 🤷♂️
No, he was actually an underdog in that hand. It's 100% a fold.
@@charliew7516 a fold is probably the best play in the long run...but he had the lead in the hand. He wasn't the favorite but still put the chips in with the best hand at the moment
@@seankiesling2054 If the read was that raymer had a nut flush draw, then he wasn't right lol
@@ChromeXuGames how? He would have the best hand and a chance to knock a player out with the best hand
The fact Mike cheered while being a 45% underdog is so special to me.
Mike doesn't understand poker math as well as we would think
This was still early before poker blew up, and they didn't have hand calculators on the floor, so having a lead after the flop probably seemed like being the favorite to win the hand.
That’s how stupid he is
We didn’t have calculations back then. He still was behind.
@@mrmacross na m8 he knew he is flipping once he saw cards you don't need any modern stuff for that. He was keeping the energy
8:36 Mike motioning for a consolatory shoulder massage while whimpering “you see the call i made on that guy earlier?” has always been so hilarious to me. It’s like something out of a bad movie
It's actually golden.
Degeneracy on full display.
Same here lol!!
There’s no way that could be real life😂
Came back to watch it again 😂
The "he doesn't understand your joke man" guy tilts me the most. Imagine watching some coked up weirdo berate another player over his "tiny balls" and not being mortified, but thinking, "haha, I like this coked up weirdo and want to support him in what he does".
This is so funny😂
Think it was Mizrachi too
Nothing worse than a sore winner
@@jamesday7467 it was amir vahedi, very likeable player who is sadly no longer alive
He's not on coke
Mike will always be a d bag.. I’ve met and talked to Greg Raymer a few times. He’s one of the nicest guys in poker. It was so nice to see him crack mikes pair with the turned flush. Not even a sweat. After all that bullying beforehand, he had it coming
They are friends now
@@millhousemillard2140 No, they aren't. The next year at the WSOP Mike says in the interview that him and Greg are friends but when they cut back to the live action the commentators make it immediately clear that they are NOT friends.
@@thefantasybros424 yes they are you are wrong....the next year?!?!?!?!?!? Lmao you realize there has been a lot of years. Watch their match at the National heads up championship and see sucka
Didn't Greg Raymer cheat people out of millions seeing everyone's cards on Ultimate Bet? Doubt you would have thought he was nice if he was doing that to you day after day under different screen names. Just saying
@@JayJay-jw6zf no he didn't lol Jesus
8:03 Mike's reaction to being eliminated is the funniest clip in the history of poker. Like a 5 year old not getting the toy he wanted on Christmas morning, I love it so much. It's like a real life version of Michael Scott's " no ... NO ... NOOOOOOOOO"
The funniest thing is that he was lucky Raymer didn't call because that would be hilarious.
Negreanu matched it
To lose on such a way is why poker is the sickest game. No Justice.
Sometimes the worst player in the field can win it all
You can’t honestly be a real poker player and take pleasure in people’s reactions when they lose.
@@AT-qm8gvagree
2004: "I just lived through the toughest 3 years of my life." Fast forward 10 years: " I just lived through the toughest 3 years of my life." Fast forward 7 years "I just lived through the toughest 3 years of my life."
Toughest years of his life...so far.
Slow learner.
Wash, rinse, spin, repeat with this meshugenner
they think it don't be like it is, but it do.
It's called gambling for a reason lol.
Greg Raymer may have been the oldest looking 39 year old I've ever seen. Remove the weird glasses and he's a 55 year old geography teacher.
Yeh, I'm 34 and when I saw it say he was 39..i was shocked. I immediately felt like wtf? am I really getting close to looking like that??
Weight ages people. I used to be bigger when I was like 28.. I looked older back then than I do now at 36 and about 75 pounds thinner.
Yeah, I was surprised also.... I'm actually 39 rn and definitely don't look as old as he does...
I'm 38 and he looks like he could be my pops 😅
He looked fine. It's his weight & comportment that makes him seem more mature in age.
"How does that happen to somebody?"
That happens when you gamble.
Mike wasn't really talking about the tournament, he was talking about his legal troubles in that spot.
He chose that life
I remember watching pretty much every second of this WSOP that was aired, like so many others did during this era. What a great run by Raymer. And, seeing a cocky player cry when getting knocked out of the tournament is still just as satisfying the second time around.
The only thing better would have been if Raymer stayed in that last hand and taken Matusow out with trip 8's - chef's kiss
The dealer dropping a diamond as soon as mike says no diamonds baby is CLASSIC
You get emotional when you're coming down from that amount of cocaine AND you just lost that hand
I haven’t been paying much attention but have seen a lot of comments like this. Did he get busted or something?
No.
@@AD-nb7gd Matusow's self confessed party days included lots of cocaine and strippers
@@AD-nb7gd just look at matusow today and youll understand. The guy cang even talk straight
Getting knocked out of the main event is a buzz kill.
How hard was it for Raymer to not laugh out loud at Mike when that Queen came down on his final hand?
Greg was too classy
Considering he would’ve flopped a set
@@alexbentley486 no he would have made a full house, and I have also folded 88 where I would have improved, poker is a brutal game
Greg Folded the Boat there. He should have busted them both
Raymer such a turd, worst main event winner ever
8:38 "Did you see the call I made on that guy earlier" as hes in tears LMFAO
Thing of beauty lol 😂😂😂
That's the best part. 😁😁
I might have heard it as “Should’ve have called I made on that guy earlier.”
He was so proud of that call he made with middle pair and less than 50% equity. Horrendous call. I wish I knew what the cards were in the first battle Greg and Mike had. Mike looked like he turned over 4-5 which only was a gutshot straight draw?
Then Raymer gets into his notebook and probably wrote "Matusow is a donkey and will pay us off" lol
There are 3 things in poker that I *REALLY* enjoying watching:
1) Phil Hellmuth blow up after losing to "some asshole Internet kid playing a hand he shouldn't" which hits the winner on the river (double satisfaction if Hellmuth was also playing a weak hand).
2) When there's an unknown or a first timer (or both/more than one of either) at the WSOP Main Event Final table.
3) A player getting knocked out after displaying a ridiculous amount of arrogance - Matusow's basically top of that list.
He called a raise with queen-10 honey! 😄🍯
Matasouw is not nearly as annoying as Will Kassouf.
Mike “I know more than you” Matusow
You don't understand, man!😂
Seeing a man cry is never enjoyable - except in this case. Wish it had happened to Jamie Gold, too.
he knows what cocaine smells like =/
I know what’s going on
So when Mike hits the miracle 7 at 0:46, he celebrates like he won because of his good play. The guy with the KK takes it amazingly well even when his opponent acts like an idiot. Then later when the miracle Q hits the river to bust Mike, Mike is like 'Why does this happen to me?'
yea thats what I hate about Hellmuth and Matusow, they are terrible sports. I would say Hellmuth is 1000x worse thoug. I get no joy out of watching Hellmuth at all.
"before its over you might end up woth something like that, you gotta be able to take it both ways.".
Deep wisdom for life.
“Gotta be humble” - matusow 😂🤣
The best part is Raymer shows us how to be a gentleman. Just win in the end take your chips like a champ and smile all wile having your best life.
*while
I like how he wishes for luck "just one time" every time.
8:17 "I don't deserve this" .. way to have some self awareness Mike.
Anybody else remember when this originally aired and ESPN censored ‘cajones’?
No I'm not 85 years old lol
@@alexdragon2170 woah sick burn bro
I member
When someone says "I'm happy, I'll be fine, I'm happy" usually means they are not happy and hate there life.
This is just where he realises that at least he can just call in to the toilets on the way out for a nice fat line, and all will be well again.
“IM PLAYING TO WIN BABY!”
*loses
Forever a classic quote " Why do I get deserve this?"
WHY DO I GET TO DESERVE THIS?!
Cause your a bad winner lol. The card gods didnt like the way you were treating people!
Lol Raymer would of had a set but nah I kinda felt bad for the guy 😔
Mike to Greg: "I told you I was going to bust you"
proceeds to double Greg up, with Greg eventually winning the main event, while Mike shortly busts out after with a paltry $20,000 win. LMFAO!!
That call Matusow made with the 9-7 was terrible at that point in the tourney. At best, you’re like a 60-70% favorite (worst case you’re dominated) calling off 2/3 of your chips.
Mike got his money in with the better hand.. laughing at it makes u look stupid
Only won $10K since the entry fee is $10K.
The mouth speaks again! Guy should let his cards talk instead of his big mouth!
8:45 - Raymer couldn't have been more right. Not just in that tournament, but in life as well.
I don't know, you have two people firing with small stacks. One is going to get busted or shortstacked, no reason to risk making the winner have a real stake at the table, especially with 88 and somebody acting behind.
Mike is one of the only guys how thinks Postle didn't cheat. Tells you all you need to know about him
watching these old degens call one-time over and over again is funny
you know baby its what they say baby...one time
"He called a raise with A-Q honey" oh wait sorry wrong person 😄
Mike was especially emotionally stable at this time.
Stable genius
Yeyo
@@Ralf986ms off the sniff for sure
He's aged really bad I find, but then again name a poker player that hasn't lol
He had a federal indictment over his head at the time. Probably had something to do with it.
Man this was the best WSOP of all time. After Chris moneymaker won in 03, poker was popular. This was the most iconic scene.
100%. The spotlight was the biggest over. All the pros were out to prove something. They were still far and away the best. Still plenty of amateurish types in the field. And raymer was a compelling champ.
“Why do i get deserve this!?” Just watch this video.
I’m so glad this ended how it did
Lol
The only way it ends better is to hear a single gun shot.
@@Pyle81 Woah lol
@@Pyle81 am I a bad human because I laughed out loud?
@@Pyle81 Pray you hear it!! If you don't, you just played your last hand.
“Coke is a hell of a drug” Matisow
Ya, but how much is it coke and how much is it he's just plain old A##H## ? Not everybody intentionally insults people while high and he's probably most pissed off about not able to afford to pay for the booty anymore
Think it was Rick James who said that
@@franz909 found the cokehead
"Best poker of my life" calls or shoves w A7😭😂
Poker really has evolved. Matusow's call against Raymer's all-in shove with Raymer's flushdraw was atrocious. 5:19
That was a bad play back then too, he just wanted to but Raymer. Lol
ahhhh back when Tournament Poker on TV was actually entertaining! Keep these old clips coming!!!!
Norman Chad's commentary was one of the biggest reasons those broadcasts were so entertaining.
Raymer could easily have JJ+ that would make mike a 4 to 1 dog, or any 10X of diamonds hand like ATd that would be even worse, or sets that would have him almost dead. There is a ton of value hands that ray could easily have in that spot. That said mikes best-case scenario was ray bluffing with any 2 diamond overcards. The thing is that even if ray has that bluff, mike is still an underdog having 45% equity. How can you ever call when your best-case scenario is still you being the underdogdog and then quote "im playing my best poker ever??" cannot imagine anything more terrible than that.
yeah but Raymer didnt have JJ, Mike had the best hand and got unlucky
@@ni4ka10589 but with 2 cards to go Raymer had more equity, so in the grand scheme of things Mike was not going to have the best hand by the river.
@ni4ka10589 had best hand on the flop but was a dog to win by the river. It was a horrible call especially for 2/3 of his stack lol
That 97s vs AJs hand always drove me nuts...in a big tournament he risked most of his stack being a coinflip at best.
What if he had AK or QJ or KQ or eights. Loved that call str8 up G call
Aaah the "idea" of coinflip where Mike was clearly ahead when he called.....which he knew he was when he called with the best hand the entire time.
@@yoholmes273-When your tournament life is at stake (nvm it being the main event) you wanna get your $ in better than that...we're not talkin a 2/5 cash game here.
@@T-roc57 You are mocking a man that had the money in with the best hand in a game named "HOLD" em.
Stick to the soy lattes & leave poker to the professionals.
@@yoholmes273 "Uh oh. Someone disagrees with me. Better call him a weakling before it becomes a matter of who has an actual argument."
Ive never seen someone be so happy to get 2/3 of their chips in as a dog. 😂
That thumbnail lmao "from bully to cry baby" 😂
When you gotta cheer ONE TIME as a 3/1 favorite... you are doomed!
Its something else
Mikey used his one time a long time ago and thought he could use it on every hand since.
Sometimes 8/1!
That would've been pretty awesome if Raymer actually called Mike's all-in with pocket 8s and Foster also called. Raymer would've knocked both guys out with a boat!
I think he still did pretty well.
Matusow in tears 😭
This was so worth watching just for that one hand.
"ive gone through the roughest times of my life and I've battled through it " Just wait Mike... just wait.
hes still in debt, just no longer in jail.
Mike with the call of his life lol with 2nd pair, 7 kicker on a draw heavy board against Raymer who shoved with nut flush draw, 2 overs and 3 backdoor straight draws. That's some serious equity. And the biggest problem was Mike not understanding that it didn't matter he was correct on his read but that he was a dog to win the hand lol. He yelled "dont let me get unlucky " when in fact he needed to get lucky bc Raymer was the favorite.
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy. Mike is the oldest toddler in the world
Phil Hellmuth: “I throw the biggest tantrums in all of poker!”
Mike Matusow: “Hold my beer.”
“Played the best poker of my life “ ... calls an all in shove with middle pair bad kicker for 2/3rds of his chip stack 🥸...
Hoping he has the nut flush draw i guess ? 😳
Matusow has said that he had a tell preflop that Raymer had AxJx and he was going to shove on Raymer post-flop if there was no ace or jack on the flop. When Raymer shoved on him first he stuck with his read and was correct.
@@jamison59 thats all fine and well.. his read was correct... his read of calling up against that hand with potentional diamonds with his garbage hand doesnt seem like a great spot to me and felt more like an ego play and call then anything...
@@joeytoxicbaby this was almost 20 years ago. Poker was different bro. I hate CZcams comment experts lmao how much have you won??? Lmao shuuuuuuuut up
I don't buy that Raymer would just open jam AJ high with no flush draw for 230k into about 90k. He's a disciplined player and that move is very punty.
It was an awful call. Best case scenario was the one he had where he is currently ahead but Raymer still has a ton of equity. This is of course disregarding the possibility that he's completely dominated.
I never tire of watching this. "NO! NO! WHY DO I GET DESERVE THIS?!" great meltdown 😂
I don’t know about nowadays but Mike is the type of person you just have to steer clear of at all times
because he knows that lockdowns are dumb and that the vaccine is fake and gay? gee yeah that kind of guy will give you a heart attack
@@patrickspens497 well I said I dunno about nowadays lol
I remember watching this live and Ive never laughed at a bad beat harder in my life
Mikes ” NOOO” and that lame jump when the queen hits on the river is just gold 🤣🤣
Damn this is such gold.. God damn Mikey do it again.
so raymer shoves 3x pot all in and mike calls off with middle pair?! Man, 2004 poker be crazy
Well, he was ahead at that point...lot of good that did him.
Matasow was making it personal. You got to keep a cool 😎 head.
Mike has said that he had a tell preflop that Raymer had AxJx and he was right. It was a coin flip anyway. Are you really going to say that’s a bad call when he is getting the right pot odds? Maybe icm makes it different but icm is about pay jumps and not winning anyway.
@@jamison59 he went for the gusto. I'd play against shorter stacks.
I mean, he made the right call and just got drawn out on. He put his chips in with the best hand
One thing I learned over the years is being humble in this game will get you a long way.
Dude has the emotional stability of a 10 year old boy.
Girl* 😉
too much cocaine
Mike knew he was way ahead with his 97, way ahead of what no one knows
way ahead of 2-3 of diamonds on that board
I won the biggest pot of my life vs Matusow in a HU 25/50NL game on Full Tilt. I had J7 flop was 8-9-10 rainbow. He bet out, I raised, he shoved $15K. Mikey had 6-7 and I slow rolled before calling and scooping over $30K. It still puts a smile on my face. 🤣
Ok, Mike jr
And then you woke up from your wet dream in your trailer home
Playing a 30.000 pot on 25/50 blinds sounds like bs.
@@0210mick You never played 25/50NL short-handed on FTP did you? Thanks for the comment tho!
@@dougbarker2227 Ooooooo what a burn! I wont get over that until recess!
“I’m happy, I’ll be fine 😐” - Quote after busting out in tears following all his trash talk, *BUT* before having to report to prison for his drug sentence lol
"You see the call I made on the guy earlier?"
"When he was the favorite to win? Yeah, I saw that. Best poker of your life."
He genuinely believes he’s the centre of the universe
Well he's the centre of attention, that's for sure.
8:37 😂😂 ‘’see the call I made on the guy earlier? 😥’’ Thank you Mike
"See the call i made on that guy earlier" 😅😅😅 kills me everytime!
Getting a lucky river card: "Yeah baby!".
Getting a bad river card: "I'm the most unlucky person on the planet".
The single most satisfying elimination in poker history I think. Only wish it had been Fossil Man who did that to him. No one deserved that 3 outer one the river more than Mikey. Absolutely Cathartic
Would have loved to have seen Mike slow rolled out
@@VicenzoV yeah that’s hard to argue with. I’ve just been annoyed by Mikey for so much longer of my life. Still brings me so much joy
Raymer wouldve knocked him out had he not folded. In fact had he stayed in the hand, he wouldve had a full house
This will always be the best era of poker we will never have again sadly 😏
Whats different now?
@@ludomirsteinbruck9376 dead, boring, lame, no energy and too many dickless nerds playing poker now. Back then it was more old school with true hustlers and gamblers playing from the heart. They all had personality and big egos. It makes for great television. Now you turn poker on when you want to fall asleep instead of taking an Ambien
@@ludomirsteinbruck9376 GTO suits a different personality type.
Mike's never slow rolled anyone in his life... never will 🤣🤣🤣
Man I wish raymer had called with his 88!
Does anyone know what the "blind" odds were on the flush draw hand with Raymer?
Mike says don't let me get unlucky, implying he is at least a bit of a favorite, but the % show 54 to 46 for Raymer. Was he just wrong because the broadcasters had camera and information about other cards that were folded that he didn't?
Honestly not 100% sure but I think they were just straight pot odds. Flush draw with 2 overcards to the board no straight potential or board pairing with 2 cards to come. He was only losing big to a flopped set of which he needs to hit the flush or runner runner which is unlikely. 2 cards to hit an Ace, Jack, running cards for a straight or a diamond are pretty decent odds for Raymer.
No Mike is just an idiot. If you run that hand until the end of time Raymer will win 54% of the time. Discards are not taken into consideration for the percentages shown.
Raymer was 54%
@8:35 Mike "seen the call I made on that guy earlier"
Me:
8:48 says it all. Dude to left of Raymer nods in agreement.
This guy's like a real life Michael Scott
This is a man on a high dose of stimulants.
0:53 watch for the jaw rotation tick at the end of his closeup
great great video
8:26 is that Tom Dwan?
No. That was Julian Gardner. Tom Dwan was only 18 in 2004.
Think his name’s Ken Borror or something
It’s a completely STARSdard river ladies n gents🤩🤩🤩
2004 to 2006 was the most entertaining years for me in the main event
this is so entertaining, this clip is like a small movie !!! Poker was great back then with the trash talk and the different characters !
1:19 Greg Raymer is the oldest 39 year old I’ve ever seen
Mike is the classic degen
Man, when life gives you lemons, you get always return to this gem and laugh your heart out. What a colossal cry baby, loved every moment.
5:59. Blue hat is actually Mr Rate from The Shooter. This footage was actually filmed a long time ago and here he is seen relaxing after a quiet job in the desert. Still has the shovel.
I know a lot of people didn’t like Greg Raymer. I never got it he seemed like a decent guy. Which is funny because you wouldn’t figure a decent guy could win the main event.
I'm more of a Robert Varkonyi fan myself
I'm a simple guy that's the game we play Buddy 😎
“Don’t let me get unlucky, ONE TIME!” Proceeds to get snapped on. 😂 😂 😂
Poker is similar to pitching in baseball. You can't only play the nuts or throw a fastball. You have mix up your game and throw in a bluff or a curve. Timing and location so it throws off your opponents
Mike 'you just don't know how badly I run' Matusow. Professional crybaby.
This was such a great era of poker. Everybody liked Negreanu and hated Matusow, but Matusow was my favorite. Best entertainment ever 🤣
Agreed. Mike is funny AF. Even Andy Bloch said he loved Mike's personality and sense of humor at the table. The big egos and personalities are must-see TV in my opinion like Phil Hellmuth, Sean Sheikhan, Sammy Farha, Mike matusow, Tony G etc
What makes it even better is the one random person clapping
Years later I had that one player repeat "Its as brutal as it gets" at a table. Hes exactly the same as he was then.
To think they show this in bad beat videos without context. He completely deserves it.
this is the kinda guy you want to see get slow rolled............mmmmmmmm....tastes so good....cry baby cry...
hehe theres a really funny video of someone with quads slow rolling him in a cash game LMAO u gotta watch it
This is the kind of guy you want to see get punched.
When Deeb slowrolled him with the quads a few years ago it was hilarious
search for it :) "I'LL PUNCH YOU IN THE F*KN MOUTH" Shaun deeb did it to him on Poker Night in America. I think you will like it :)