2011 WSOP Bracelet Winner Profile – Matt Matros

On Saturday, Matt Matros took down Event #52 of the 2011 WSOP, the $2,500 Mixed Hold’Em (Limit/No-Limit). Matros won $303,501 in prize money in addition to winning the bracelet. This is the second WSOP bracelet for Matros. Matros won his first bracelet in 2010 in the $1,500 Limit Hold’Em championship event.

Matt Matros - $2,500 Mixed Hold'em bracelet winner.

Matt Matros, 34, learned poker as a kid, but did not start playing seriously until his senior year of college. It was while he was at Yale that Matros begin to seriously study and play the game. He graduated with a degree in mathematics and entered into the corporate world.

After a few years in the corporate business world Matros decided he wanted to return to school and pursue a graduate degree in cerate writing. Matros attended Sarah Lawrence and continued playing poker recreationally. While he was working on his Masters Degree he began to play poker more seriously.

Matros is primarily a Limit Hold’Em specialist. When he graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 2004 he had decided to become a full time poker pro. While he had been successful in cash games, the decision to go pro was made easier when he came in 3^rd at the 2004 Bellagio Five-Star World Poker Classic/WPT for $706,903.

Matros would have positive tournament results for the next few years. He has cashed in every WSOP series he has played in since 2005. Some of his more substantial scores include a 6^th place finish in the 39th World Series of Poker $1,500 No Limit event for $148,875 and $189,870 for his 1^st place finish in the 2010 $1,500 Limit Hold’Em event.

His success on the felt has led to Matros becoming an instructor at Cardrunners. His overall total tournament winnings to date are 1,800,000. When Matros is not playing poker he is busy finishing his first novel.

Matros was going to have some stiff competition in Event #52. There were 580 players all vying for the bracelet. Some of the players in the running were: Jimmy Fricke, Hoyt Corkins, Daniel Negreanu, Rep Porter, Terrence Chance and Michael Mizrachi.

Day 1 finished with 135 players remaining. Among the players coming back for Day 2 were Joseph Cheong, Chris Moorman, Scott Montgomery, Liz Lieu and Max Pescatori. Matros was heading into Day 2 with a stack of 24,400.

Day 2 came to a close with 9 players left. The final table would have some tough players, including Matt Hawrilenko and Noah Boeken. After some tough play it was down to heads-up between Matt Matros and Jonathan Lane. Matros had the chip lead with 3,250,000 and Lane had 1,100,000.

The final hand came during the No-Limit round. Matros opened from the button only to have Lane shove all in. Matros called holding As-Tc. Lane was holding Jd-Th. The board came Qh-Qs-5s-4s-4h and Matros had won the tournament.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Related posts:

• 2011 WSOP Bracelet Winner Profile – Matt Jarvis Matt Jarvis on Sunday won WSOP Event #40, the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed.  Jarvis won his first bracelet and took home $808,538 in prize money. This victory comes one year after Jarvis took 8th place in the Main Event. Last...
• 2010 World Series of Poker Event #18 Recap – Matt Matros and Eric Buchman Headling $2,000 Limit Holdem Final Event #18 of the 2010 World Series of Poker was the $2,000 Limit Poker Event. A smaller field of just 476 players turned out looking to take their shot at this bracelet but by the time the final table was...
• 2011 WSOP Bracelet Winner Profile – Matt Perrins Matt Perrins recently won Event #9 of the 2011 WSOP, $1,500 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship.  He won the bracelet by besting a field of 275 entrants including Eli Elezra, Andy Bloch, and Joe Cassidy. Perrins got heads up with...
• 2011 WSOP Bracelet Winner Profile – Rep Porter On Tuesday, Rep Porter took down Event #44 of the 2011 WSOP, the $2,500 Razz Event. Porter won $210,615 in addition to winning his second WSOP bracelet. Porter came out on top of a starting field of 363 players. Porter...
• 2011 WSOP Bracelet Winner Profile – Ben Lamb On Monday, Ben Lamb took down 2011 WSOP Event #42: the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship.  The win comes only a few days after Lamb took second in event #31, the $3k Pot Limit championship. Lamb won $814,436 for his...