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Mike Matusow Net Worth
Mike Matusow's Net Worth as of 2024
$8 Million
Michael Matusow was born on the 30th April 1968, in Los Angeles, California USA, and is an American professional poker player, better known by his nickname “The Mouth”. During his professional career, he has won four World Series of Poker bracelets, 13 final tables and 32 money finishes in tournaments. He is also known for hosting such poker podcasts as “The Circuit”, and “The Mouthpiece”. His career has been active since the early 1990s.
So, have you ever wondered just how rich Mike Matusow is, as of late 2016? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the total size of Mike’s net worth amounts to $8 million. Needless to say, he has earned most of his income during his successful career as a professional poker player. Additionally, another source is coming from his career as the host of several poker podcasts.
Mike Matusow Net Worth $8 Million
Mike Matusow was raised in Los Angeles. Even at a young age he was a passionate competitor, enjoying and excelling at activities such as pool, building race cars, and bowling. Information about his parents and education is unknown to the media.
Mike first discovered his passion for poker when he started playing video poker in the Maxim Casino at the age of 18. Although he had never played poker before, it wasn’t long before he started visiting the casinos regularly, to the extent that his shoulder and arms began to suffer from repetitive strain injury as a result of his rabid dedication. However, at the beginning he wasn’t too successful, and he occasionally stole money from his mother’s purse, and even attended Gamblers Anonymous meeting to cope with his problem. All of this changed when he met a rounder named Steve Samaroff in 1989, who introduced him to Texas hold’em poker.
Soon Mike became much more serious about a professional engagement to poker. He started working as a poker dealer at Sans Town Hotel and Gambling Hall in Las Vegas, which enabled him to observe other players and pick up on various tips and strategies. Furthermore, his work as a poker dealer helped him accumulate enough knowledge and experience to start competing in professional poker tournaments. His net worth began to rise.
Subsequently, Mike earned his first big income at the 1998 World Series of Poker, when he paid part of Scotty Nguyen’s entrance fee, who later went on to win and subsequently gave him $333,333 in return for his stake, adding a considerable amount to his net worth.
A year later, Mike defeated Alex Brenes and won the $3,500 No Limit Hold’em event which earned him his first World Series of Poker bracelet. In 2000, he won some more World Series of Poker cashes before his highly successful run at the 2001 Main Event. He finished sixth and earned approximately $240,000. He followed this success by winning his second bracelet in 2002 and making another deep run in the 2005 Main Event, all of which earned him over $1 million. He eventually went on to win his third and fourth bracelet in 2008 and in 2013, while cashing multiple other times along the way, increasing further his net worth.
Besides his success at the World Series of Poker, Matusow has also competed and cashed in at many other events, some of which included World Poker Tour, the National Heads-up Poker Championship, the Aruba Classic and the Wynn Classic. Additional to this, he has also competed in High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark, winning once. As a member of Team Full Tilt, he can be regularly found playing a variety of games and competitions on Full Tilt Poker. His net worth is certainly rising.
Beside his involvement in poker tournaments, Mike also hosted Card Player’s poker radio podcast “The Circuit” and is currently the host of Card Player’s online video segment “The Mouthpiece”. In 2009 he published his autobiography entitled “Check Raising the Devil”, which also increased his net worth by a large margin.
Regarding his personal life, Mike Matusow is single, and his current residence is in Henderson, Nevada.
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Ben Stein Net Worth
Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American lawyer, speechwriter, actor, writer and commentator on economic and political issues, but he is also known for participating in many other activities. For example, Ben Stein has even tried himself as a game show host. This famous person in American economics and politics was born on November 25 in 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States during World War II. He attended Columbia College and later Yale Law School. After graduation Ben Stein started to write columns and articles for different US magazines such as Newsmax, Los Angeles Magazine, Penthouse, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Magazine, The American Spectator and even for The New York Times.
Ben Stein Net Worth $20 Million
In his writings Stein usually speaks about the economic situation and political issues, and even gives financial advices to individual investors. However, in the mid-60s he also got the job of a poverty lawyer and later continued as a lawyer for the Federal Trade Comission. After few years of hard work, Ben Stein decided to try himself in acting too, but before starting to get roles he became a Hollywood consultant. Stein got his first comedy role and had to play a boring and monotonous economics teacher in the movie called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was released in 1986. As an actor Ben Stein has since appeared in many other movies, such as The Mask, No Intelligence Allowed, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, The Emperor’s New School, Full House, Casper: A Spirited Beginning, The O’Reilly Factor, Maried… with Children, Duckman, The Emperor’s New Schol, Earthworm Jim, Casper Meets Wendy, Family Guy and Richie Rich.
The famous actor and commentator is also recognized thanks to the Comedy Central channel where he was the main face of the show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money” for which he has even received an Emmy award. Ben Stein was earning $5,000 per episode, but money that contestants won was subtracted from actor’s salary. However, these earnings are just nothing if we compare them with Stein’s net worth, which reached $20 million in 2012.
Ben Stein is well known thanks to his ability to harmonize all his activities and show himself as a talented person in every job he does. But maybe one of his most successful, but not so well-known activities is writing speeches for American presidents. Ben Stein was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Until now Ben Stein has published 15 books, the first written together with Herbert Stein and released in 1978. In 2012 his last book appeared in stores – “How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio”.
Nowadays Ben Stein lives with his wife Alexandra Denman in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California. The couple married in 1968 and divorced after 6 years, but in 1977 they got back together again. With his wife Ben Stein adopted their son Tom in 1987. As well as his property in Beverly Hills, Ben Stein also owns a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho and an apartment in the Watergate complex in Washingtton, D.C., which was inherited from his parents.
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Mikey Teutul Net Worth
Michael Joseph was born 26 November 1978, in Montgomery, New York State USA, and widely known as Mikey Teutul, is a reality television personality, the youngest son of Orange County Choppers founder Paul Teutul, Sr. Mikey began his working life at 14, in the family business.
So just how rich is Mikey Teutul, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Mikey has a net worth of over $3 million dollars, largely earned by working at his father’s and older brother Paul Jr,’s company Orange County Choppers (OCC), and Orange County Iron Works, and through his TV appearances.
Mikey Teutul Net Worth $3 Million
Little is known of Mikey’s early life or education – it seems to have always revolved around the family business. Helping out his family in his teens, theoretically he worked as Assistant General Manager. but his main duties were to answer ‘phones, and clear-up and take out the trash. He was on rare occasions given the chance to build bikes, until he was competent to build his own. He also attended events for promoting OCC.
In 2002, the family was invited to take part in a reality show, Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper”, and subsequently “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior”, in the course of which the youngest son was thrown out of the business – the middle son is Daniel, and younger sister Cristin. The reason for Mikey’s exclusion was that Mikey tried to be a mediator between his father and his brother, but his father seemed to be offended that his younger son did not take his side, and so threw him out of the business. During the filming of the show, Mikey was somethoing of a comedy relief to his father’s workers, and that comedy streak helped gain him popularity in TV shows. Mikey then joined his brother’s post-OCC venture, -Paul Jr Designs – along with most of their father’s employees; obviously the work atmosphere with Paul Teutul, Sr. was not a particularly happy one. Mikey’s eldest brother Paul Jr. was the former chief fabricator of OCC.
So actually the main source of Mikey Teutul’s wealth is not his father’s business, but the shows he eventually took part in. These have included ‘The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and also “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The shows became very popular and Mikey’s appearances earned him a significant amount of money. To say the least, the family drama did not go without consequences – according to rumours, Mikey Teutul was suffering from an addiction problem, and consequently admitted himself to rehab, and managed to overcome the bad habits which were apparently hindering his progress in life, obviously including business.
In his life away from the businesses already referred to and the limelight of TV, Michael loves to paint, and is apparently respected for his productions, as he opened “The Wolfgang Gallery” gallery in Montgomery, New York, where he has sold or auctioned his paintings, adding somewhat to is net worth, although rumours suggest that the gallery may now be closed. Most recently, Mikey is now trying to enter the market under the moniker LLC FarQueue Products with his line of gourmet pasta sauces. Good luck, Mikey!
In his less-than-private personal life, Mikey is apparently still single – there aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons.
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