"I think that if things were passed in a slightly different way, I would have never written this book." One of the most outstanding figures of the last decade in the world of poker is surely Mike Matusow. "Check-raising the devil" was written in collaboration with Amy Calistri and Tim Lavalli and is the new autobiography of Mike Matusow. Written in a sober tone, it draws the portrait of the man behind the poker player.

The history of Matosow is jubilant, sometimes awfull and heartbreaking, spotted remarkable successes and also failures. all this does not resemble a poker career? Despite all these developments, Matusow remains a very balanced being with all his spirits even if it is passed extreme euphoria to the extreme depression.

Check-Raising the Devil is a remarkable book which can be interpreted in different ways. Matusow is a significant contribution to the history of poker and the book gives us a timeline of his professional poker career. It is also a book that will give us a good life lesson about the dangers of drug and ups and downs of high-stakes poker. This autobiography is a stage, according to the author, in the process to become "clean", a being sober and reasonable. But it is also a book to apologize comises errors and also to defend some of its decisions.

In poker, the check - raise is a very aggressive game that a player can make which might mean an attempt of taking control of the hand. It's like his autobiography, a grip of his destiny.