Written today, two months later - Mike Matusow approached me from Amazon Blue #295, his island in a sea of about 20 tables contesting the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship. Mike didn’t know I was going to be here and we had spoken just once so far during the Series and not about this tournament. Even so, ...
Starting this weekend, I’ll be posting several entries that share stories of my six-year relationships with Ted Forrest and Mike Matusow. The unifying feature of this stories is how, for me, the events at the end of their historic $2 million weight-loss proposition bet, were deja vu. It was almost as if this unique and ...
After dinner and drinks at the Commerce in May, Ted Forrest, Mike Matusow, and Justin Smith outlined the terms of a weight-loss prop bet destined to upstage the Main Event of the 2010 World Series of Poker. The $2 million wager, which required Forrest to lose nearly 50 pounds in less than 2 ½ months, ...
At this point, I admit that I became too close to a story that was already making me feel uncomfortable. Apart from my shock at Ted Forrest’s appearance, I was now helping him hunt down Mike Matusow. On the one hand, Mike’s a friend, Ted and Mike were friends, and I’d done such errands before. ...