Matusow wants movie of his life

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Except for the six-month jail term, 2005 was normal for one poker professional, in a world where millions in poker winnings vanish as quickly as they accumulate. Mike Matusow began 2005 in jail, and finished the year by winning the World Series of Poker's Tournament of Champions and $1 million - just two blocks from the bars that imprisoned him. In between all this, he won another $1 million by finishing ninth in the WSOP's main event and lost at least as much playing poker and betting sports, mostly the NFL.

Matusow is currently negotiating for his as-yet unpublished autobiography to be turned into a film. Yes, a film. According to press releases it's a story of "a gregarious, generous man with attention deficit and bipolar disorders who begins his poker career as a dealer, goes to the other side of the table and becomes one of the game's best, ends up at Gambler's Anonymous twice, becomes a speed addict but kicks the habit, accumulates and "evaporates a few fortunes and loses $250,000 betting NFL games in six months from the jail phones."

Matusow arrived on the pop gambling radar via telecasts of the World Series Of Poker, where he's made at least one final table every year since 1997, including two in the main event since 2002. He also made news in 1998 when he paid one-third of Scotty Nguyen's entry fee into the $10,000 no-limit Texas Hold'em main event.

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