Matusow In Town For Seminar, Calls Florida Poker Players "Terrible"

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, has been appropriately nicknamed due to his extreme opinions and theatrics on the poker table. This week, he launched another one of his verbal zingers by calling Florida poker players "terrible."

Matusow is in South Florida this weekend running a Deepstack Live seminar at the Isle Casino & Racing in Pompano Beach. The seminar is designed to help Floridians make the transition from the quick paced cash games they have been playing, to the more advanced deep stack play.

Florida lawmakers have changed gambling laws earlier this year allowing for no-limit poker games. The change means players that have been playing for buy-ins of no more than $100, are now free to fork over much more to sit at one of the tables in the state's poker rooms.

The professionals had already been feasting on the novice players the past couple of weeks at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, when Matusow took it a step further in promoting his seminar.

"In Florida, you're dealing with a lot of raw players, and they're terrible," said Matusow, to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Matusow proceeded to discuss hands that poker pros would not play that will be common for Florida players to take their chances with.

Matusow, like many of the professional players, use past success and an acquired skill in the game of poker to travel around teaching less experienced players what they have learned. These seminars do not come cheap, the one being held later today at the Isle costs $495 to attend.

Matusow will not be the only pro at the seminar. South Florida's own Hayden Fortini, who made his fortune playing Internet poker, will also be speaking at the event. Clearly, however, the "pupils" will be there to see "The Mouth."

"I have a lot of fun with the students," Matusow told the Sun-Sentinel. "When they mess up, I might throw a card or a chip at them or make them laugh."

Florida is one of the areas of the country that big Las Vegas company's are eyeing for expansion. When lawmakers were discussing expanding the state's gambling options earlier this year, several company's sent representatives to Tallahassee to pitch large casino resorts in the Sunshine State.

Legislators have not taken that large of a step yet, but they did eliminate betting limits on the poker tables and have also expanded hours of operation for Florida pari-mutuel poker rooms. The Seminoles received the rights to operate blackjack and several other card games at five of their seven casinos in Florida.

August 8, 2010
Posted By Tom Jones
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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