{"id":1638,"date":"2016-08-03T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2019-11-26T22:31:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:31:35","slug":"frustrated-well-alive-matt-marafioti-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/frustrated-well-alive-matt-marafioti-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated, Well, but Alive; Matt Marafioti Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back and feeling better than ever; PokerPro Matt Marafioti returned after he was reported missing in June by fellow poker pro Randy Dorfman.<\/h2>\n

In a series of tweets the high stakes poker pro had allegedly gone missing after playing a handful of poker events at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Dorfman tweeted:<\/p>\n

‘If anyone has seen Matt Marafioti please contact me. Has not been heard from since June & family is extremely worried. Plz rtwt’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For everyone but his friends and family, the issue went cold after a series of retweets and possible sightings.<\/p>\n

Return is Remarkable<\/strong><\/p>\n

The man himself popped up on YouTube and this fortunately happened before the trail back to Marafioti could go cold. He’d simply received a $65,000 advance on the sale of his house as he explained via a video on his personal account.<\/p>\n

A vacation is simply what Marafioti needed to get away from things.<\/p>\n

‘I’m enjoying summer with friends, having fun. We went on a camping trip for a couple of weeks and it was really enjoyable’. Marafioti said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, he couldn’t help it to take a few shots at his peers, like Dorfman, as temperamental as he is.<\/p>\n

Escape the One-Sided Poker World<\/strong><\/p>\n

The high-stakes poker player said he was happy to get away from things while addressing some of the comments he’d received during his time in Vegas.<\/p>\n

In his YouTube video he said the following about the poker community:<\/p>\n

‘I find the poker community to be a very seedy, one-sided community’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given the fact that Dorfman was the one calling out to the community in the search for Marafioti, it was strange that he went on to call the poker pro a ‘Jewish Monster’ and not even a remote friend. For the ones that claimed that Marafioti had a mental illness, he stated that there were people who rather see him in a mental home.<\/p>\n

All that is important now is that he’s alive and well. In the upside-down video below, you can hear the poker player’s full explanation:<\/p>\n