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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
The Carrot Top of Poker
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 by Phil
I know this is a stretch, but I don’t have anything else to do right now, so I figure I will just make a ridiculous statement and then try to back it up. I’m gonna come right out and say it; I think Mike Matusow is the Carrot Top of the poker world. You could interpret that statement in any number of ways, I suppose it really depends on who you are and when you grew up (and if you grew up). Allow me to explain…
Carrot Top has been around as long as I can remember. Whether you hate him or like him, you have to admit that he has been around a while and he has turned himself into a household name. I think it would be a pretty good generalization to say that most people think Carrot Top is pretty annoying. I guess that this has always been part of his shtick.
At the same time…is there anyone out there who actually wishes harm to a guy like Carrot Top? Even if you hate him, he’s not the sort of guy that you really hate with a passion. It’s more of a sense like you might derive pleasure from a swift kick to his groin, or perhaps a nice splash of mud in his direction as you drive by him changing a car tire on a rainy day.
So if you can’t see it yet, here is how I make the comparison between Matusow and Carrot Top.
They are both a couple of idiots and this has been the case for as long as I can remember. As much as I would like to pop-off a few rounds from a paintball gun at each of them, I would probably be sad if anything really bad happened to either of them.
I just turned 27, so I’m just getting to the point in my life where I have known anyone for a significant amount of time. I guess I’ve been finding that some of the people that I once hated have started to grow on me.
Anyway, congrats to Mike Matusow for taking down his first Poker After Dark sit n’ go on NBC. Mike was 0/10 going into last week’s show and he had to mount a comeback of epic proportions while he was heads up against Andy Black.
As much as I know that some of you hate the guy, I know many of you had to be routing for him to take down this tournament. He’s a guy that many of us can relate to because he’s become a staple in our world, and I guess you could say that he’s grown on some of us. It was nice to see him take it down. I guess for some reason I was thinking about kicking the s#@t out of Carrot Top when this show came on last week…so the comparison was obvious at the time.
