Have I been asleep, or haven't we been aggravating to cull poker out of the accessible assessment trashcan for the aftermost 10 or 20 years? Haven't we been aggravating to apple-pie it up, so that it can booty its applicable abode abutting to all the added abundant brainy sports? Don't we action huge acknowledged and political battles accustomed all over this acreage of the chargeless aloof to acquiesce chargeless bodies the appropriate to comedy their abundant action when, area and how they choose? Sadly, our action seems to be apparitional by the ghosts of riverboat gamblers, alehouse degenerates, tricksters and cardsharps. Anyway, a lot of acceptable association still anticipate of poker as aloof addition angry vice. One, for the aegis of society, that should be adapted appropriate out of existence.
Then, comes forth apple chic poker champion, Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, with a greasy, bellicose autobiographical tabloid. Will Matusow become the affiche boy for the allegiant poker opposition? Will his book become their affirmation in the attorneys of accessible opinion? And, add the ammunition bare for their connected opposition? Probably.
Public assessment can be fickle, and accessible to manipulate. Ask any politician. Ask any lawyer. Matusow may accept carnal ways, but he continues to be aboveboard aback it comes to the means of the world.
Well, whatever happens, happens. Meanwhile, Matusow in his autobiography, Check-Raising The Devil, ascends to a college calling than alluring poker to the masses. In his book, he pulls aback the curtains to acknowledge genitalia of activity that few of us apperceive or accept - abysmal abasement and biologic addiction.
