It has been calculated that Chris Brewer would have won 2023 WSOP Player of the year without online events with the winner Ian Matakis being only in 10th place!
since there has been some chatter about the online events and how they effect the 2023 wsop poy race I decided to see how players would have ranked if the online events were excluded. This is not intended to take away from the winners or anyone else’s achievements just to show… pic.twitter.com/4TSxgQpQk5
— jason lipiner (@lipiner) July 21, 2023
Surprisingly, as nobody had mentioned it, Shaun Deeb would have been shuffled down into 11th place.
The discussion started during congratulations for Ian Matakis who was a surprise winner this year.
Some big names, including runner-up Shaun Deeb, posted congratulations but then Mike Matusow popped up to put a dampener on the celebrations, saying online events are not worthy to count.
Congrats even though winning poy was proped up by mostly online events which I think is an embarrassment to the Wsop brand you won fair and square and deserved it! Well done sir, Maybe next yr we just don’t play at Paris or horshoe and just play online poker! https://t.co/Amfda6usEE
— Mike Matusow (@themouthmatusow) July 19, 2023
Deeb was quick to put The Mouth back in his place, after trying to take the shine off Matakis’s win.
I’m not knocking it & if you won over a Chris brewer or chance because of online Wsop results I’d say the same! It was the Wsop not the wsop online poker! Online poker is a fucking joke where we have no clue who’s using rta or who’s sitting in a room with 10 people! I truly… https://t.co/qp7SM1dUGa
— Mike Matusow (@themouthmatusow) July 19, 2023
Interestingly, Dutch Boyd pointed out that Mike Matusow’s four bracelet wins came from fields of 210, 85, 79, and 205, while Ian Matakis won his after topping 1,253 entries that included many big names in poker.
Matusow then fired at the WSOP for being greedy a couple of days later, saying online bracelets are not real ones.
Sorry but if you grind everyday at the WSOP23 at Paris and horseshoe & don’t win 1 bracelet live you should never win poy! You can argue all you want & I’m always open for debate but this isn’t the Wsop of online poker! Wsop online bracelets are gimmicks disguised as real…
— Mike Matusow (@themouthmatusow) July 22, 2023
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