High Stakes Poker Season 3 Episode 3
By Glenn Cole | February 2, 2007
Matusow practices “kamikaze-poker” and Sheikan is getting furious, how will this end…
Gabe Kaplan starts at the table in the episode, as I thought, So it is the same players as it were at the end of episode 2:
Seat 1: Mike Matusow
Seat 2: Jamie Gold
Seat 3: Daniel Alaei
Seat 4: Shahram “Shawn” Sheikhan
Seat 5: Victor Ramdin
Seat 6: Gabe Kaplan
Seat 7: William Chen
Seat 8: Doyle Brunson
And again, Negreanu is in the booth as a commentary. In this episode, he gives a better impression though. He talks smoother, more analyzing etc. I believe he got some advices from the directors of the show or something.
This episode starts with a loud Mike Matusow, blowing up. “Kamikaze poker” as Negreanu well said it. But he doesn’t get any action from the initial raiser, “Shawn”. When Sheikan folds his pocket eights, Matusow gladly show his KJ off suit. And telling everyone same old story, “You got to have heart playing like me”. Too bad Sheikan didn’t have a stronger hand, so Matusow understood how bad those play were, or in my opinion a really bad play.
All this gets Matusow in a really good mood, and harassing Sheikan for quite a time, this lead up with a chocker; Sheikan reaches over and bends Matusow’s sun glasses in half. For a second no one makes a noise, no one believes what just happened; this is after all a televised show. But Matusow takes it really well, and all players can laugh it out. After 2/3 of the episode, Sheikan leaves his seat and a man called Paul Wasicka takes his place. If some of you don’t know him from before, he is the runner up in the last World Series Of Poker. He lost to Jamie Gold, who also sits at the table. He is a young up and comer in the poker circuit. Playing rather conservative, and is as well a conservative player. He doesn’t talk at all, just if someone asks him a question, kind of boring, I know. Well Matusow talks for eight people so don’t worry; it isn’t quiet for a second at the table.
At the end of the episode Kaplan and Negreanu trades places again, so it is as it should be, the poker pro at the table and the commentator at the booth.
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