Listen all you monkeys, I think it is absolutely assinine for anyone to come on this webpost and talk shit about Mike. What gives you the right to make degrading comments towards a man that you know nothing about other than what you have seen on a tv program that, by the way, is designed to villinize this guy. The man is joking half he time he makes his quote "asshole remarks". He is just trying to stir it up alittle and have some fun. How many of you are just jealous that you are not a pro like him? How many of you sit on pokerstars and play 1/2 dreaming of just having enough money to buy into the main event. Now picture this same person getting online and completely bashing a person who is living their dream, all because the cameras project him as a prick. In reguards to wheather or not he is a good player - I can say only this - then man called Raymer last year with a middle pair of 9's when Raymer only had a flush draw - Mike the big favorite there - for his whole touriment life at steak. How many players could have made that call? Could you? Mike has made himself into a celebrity, there is no such thing as bad publicity. The fact that there are so many posting on this site is a testament to Mike's genius. He is one the better players out there. And for me, or anyone else to pass judgement on his character would be blasphemous, because only God can, and will, judge Mike "the mis-understood" Matasow.