5 Poker Stars We Love to Hate
Poker stars come in all different shapes and sizes, some have short tempers, some cry like babies, others are just plain creepy. Even though they have questionable antics around the poker table, you can’t help but love hating these guys and their ability to win big.
Tony G.
Mr. G is rude, mean-spirited, arrogant, obese and ugly. These are the qualities that make it hard for even a mother to love a son. Watching him hurl abuse at another poker player in an unprovoked racist attack is a bit much, especially when it is clear that the hand was a coin-flip.
Mike Matusow
So Mike Matusow has a lot of heart. This is what other poker pros seem to think. He has so much heart, in fact, that he couldn’t keep his emotions in after suffering a bad beat at the WSOP. ‘The Mouth’ blubbered like a baby in front of the cameras after his AK got donked by AQ. If poker makes you sadsies, Mikey, maybe you should consider becoming a professional plumber.
However, a lot of people like Mike. But nobody at all likes Shahram Sheikhan. Nobody. The two big mouths involved in a school boy name-calling fight at the WSOP has to be one of the most precious moments in poker history.
Phil Hellmuth
The players that occasionally suck out on you are the players that cause you to win in the long run. There is no need for a scene.
Phil’s self-proclaimed brilliance and god-given reading abilities don’t compensate for the fact that he looks like a pasty hippo trying to be hip, has a bigger ego than Lars Ulrich, sports a pot-sized mole next to his nose and throws a tantrum every time he loses a pot. Despite his numerous bracelets and neat haircut, Phil Hellmuth is an embarrassment to poker.
Jamie Gold
These days, playing the World Series of Poker is not that different to buying a lottery ticket. Jamie Gold is not a good poker player. And now the ass-faced weasel gets to join real pros like Paul Wasicka and Daniel Negreanu on ‘High Stakes Poker’.
However, watching Jamie Gold beg Sammy Farha to stop betting after realizing it was KK vs. AA must have been one of the most beautiful and shameful moments for professional poker. Even Grandpa Doyle Brunson, who must have thought he’d seen it all by now after 137 years of playing poker, was embarrassed to be in the same room as the former WSOP winner.
Tom Dwan
All the hours spent in a dark room in front of a computer raking in huge pots online have taken their toll on our unnervingly clean-shaven and creepy-eyed poker hero. Delightful interviews and friendly table banter have proved that Dwan has slightly less social skill than an overcooked Christmas.
Actually, there is no reason to hate ‘durrrr’. He seems nice enough and it was great to see his pocket tens cracked Hellmuth’s bullets at the National Heads Up Poker. We’re probably just jealous that a 21 year old whiz kid who can’t grow a moustache has made his millions playing poker.
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