Mike Matusow’s coronavirus mathematics
You don’t have to be a math genius to be a poker player, and that’s just as well for Mike Matusow, the infamous Mike The Mouth’s coronavirus calculations way off the mark this week…
Please help me math poker people! If 320m people live in USA and 1.5m have coved 19 and 80k have died, what are odds of getting covid 19 and dying? I’ll hep you . 003% to get virus .00025% to die. You have better chance of dying in car crash it’s a media driven bunch of bs! #math
— Mike Matusow (@themouthmatusow) May 12, 2020
Decimal points and % calculations shouldn’t be too much of a reach for a poker legend who has $9.75million in live cashes to his name, along with 4 WSOP gold bracelets.
However, it was up to his fellow players to point out just how far off the mark Mike was…
Mike, with all due respect, your decimal points are off by two zeros and not accurate. 1.5/320 = 0.47%. #math
— Ryan Feldman (@TheRyanFeldman) May 12, 2020
…with 2003 Main Event champ Chris Moneymakertaking a dig at his fellow WSOP champion…
unfortunately this is how Mike "thinks"
No idea how he ever won at poker
— Chris Moneymaker ⭕ (@CMONEYMAKER) May 13, 2020
Without wishing to get too political, Matusow’s most recent Twitter faux pas saw his recent past of coronavirus predictions and beliefs brought up…
I think it's the funniest that Mike was originally like "it's no big deal, just a flu." Then Trump shut everything down and he was like "OK I was wrong it's a big deal" and now that Trump is advocating re-opening he's like "it's just a flu again!" 😂
— Jerod Smith (@jsmith84poker) May 13, 2020
Once the initial math situation was cleared up to everyone’s satisfaction, Mike was back again with another coronavirus numbers problem for his fans and followers.
Maybe I used wrong words! If you have 50 k to your name and they tell you call 50 k on turn and you’re 99.7% to win pot and you double money or you get corona virus would you call bet? If they said call bet and your 99.9% to double your money or you die would you call bet?
— Mike Matusow (@themouthmatusow) May 12, 2020
This one didn’t go down too well either, the horribly-worded poll leading to confusion, as well as offending quite a few…
https://twitter.com/jonmoore/status/1260314305699786754?s=20
Mike was far from finished with his bad maths, however, yet another tweet where the numbers seemed to be way off the mark…
Virus is real, media drives fake narrative! Prove me wrong math geniuses? You can’t! More have died of obesity in 2 months then covid!this isn’t political its fucking basic fucking math! And if your under 50 it’s .000000001% to die of covid! Prove me wrong #CoronaVirusHOAX
— Mike Matusow (@themouthmatusow) May 12, 2020
…this time a fan of the poker legend picking up on his horrible arithmetic, replying: ‘Ok. .000000001% of the 5B people in the world that are under age 50 is .05 of a single person.
He added: ‘Only 1/20th of a single person under 50 has died by your math. Impossible. #provenwrong hate to see a poker hero of mine intentionally mislead w numbers. Not worth bluffing on this.’
Further Mike Matusow Controversy
It’s not unusual for Matusow to take a contrary stance on Twitter, of course, and his Mike The Mouth podcast has been the only so far to host alleged cheat Mike Postle.
Matusow’s trainwreck interview saw Postle go virtually unchallenged on the serious cheating allegations.
Matusow himself claimed to have won 54 sessions in a row – which may be true or just more dodgy ‘Mike Matusow maths’.
I don’t think he’s cheating at all , I’ve won 54 sessions in a row before! I think he has great instincts and everyone is slandering the guy without anything to go on! https://t.co/hZZjDUsgon
— Mike Matusow (@themouthmatusow) October 2, 2019
Last year’s WSOP Player of the Year fiasco – which saw Daniel Negreanu proclaimed the winner before it was revealed that the wrong events had been counted – also saw Matusow involved.
Another Twitter war erupted, this time with Doug Polk, after the retired pro cast some serious aspersions against Negreanu…
I already knew you were a scumbag lowlife,but you should never be allowed to play poker in a poker room again or create lying bullshit poker content just to make yourself look good! #scumbagDoug https://t.co/FBaaHHBSIx
— Mike Matusow (@themouthmatusow) November 14, 2019
The poker community has lost count of the number of times Matusow has been involved in bizarre arguments or situations, and unfortunately, we can’t rely on Mike’s own math skill to help us out.
The only thing we can be reasonably sure about is that the number will almost definitely increase, and soon.
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