Winston Wins WPT, Matusow Finishes Sixth

Filed in archive Tournament News on September 25, 2007

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, you may not like his attitude, but you've got to give credit where credit is due. Online of course, you can watch Matusow blow up for several stacks at the cash games on Full Tilt.com. In the live tournament arena there's very few that have the same street cred he displays from the high finishes and victories since getting out of jail in 2005.

Final Table World Series of Poker Main Event 2005
WSOP Tournament of Champions 1st place
Poker Superstars III Champion
WPT Bellagio Cup III 2nd Place
(read the entire listings here at the Hendon Mob database)

With his hot streak going, it was no surprise to see him sitting nearly 2nd in chips at the World Poker Tour 2007 Borgata Poker Open main event. But, he suffered the same fate as the WSOP ME final table in 2005 when he was the first to exit, as his top two pair couldn't hold up to Roy Winston's pair plus a flush draw when a third diamond hit the turn leaving Matusow with only three outs on the river.

He took home $271,600 but I'm sure the money didn't mean a whole lot (at least to him, where I would finally be able to move up to the $2/$4 game online).

Roy Winston, not a newcomer per say, finished 26th in the WSOP ME this year and managed to use Mike's chips for good as he took down the tourney good for the $25,000 buy-in to the WPT Championships and $1.5 million dollars.

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