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For sure, Mikey has been a loser. It's a well known and often poked-fun-of fact in the poker community. Mike himself openly admits to losing and often steaming off even more money online (close to millions). He gets by from having strong financial backers in the poker community.

Do you remember after his WSOP ME final table finish and TOC win (2005? I think) that Mikey was saying he won just enough to pay off his debt to backers? Well, that's a good indication of just how much he was down.
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This doesn't make sense from an economic standpoint. Who are all of these backers that you say are willing to throw away good money by staking a supposedly known loser? People with enough money to give millions to Matusaw aren't stupid, and wouldn't give him the money if he was such a known loser and terrible player. It just doesn't make sense.

Every consider that Matusaw's "woe is me" whinging is just part of his persona/act? Do you believe everything a poker player says at the table? No, me neither. So why to do take these statements as fact?

You can watch him play online, but that small sample is hardly an indication of his success or failure.