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TheLove_BelowOP
8mo ago

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2024/04/matthew-bergart-poker-player-murdered-45871.htm
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Poker Pro Matthew Bergart Murdered in Targeted Heist; "Wrong Place at the Wrong Time"

Always enjoyed railing his games and he was a player never shy of piling in the money if he thinks your going to fold in a certain spot. He used to play under Pmachine on Stars, and skyrocketed into HS recently battling the likes of Barak and Linus. Sadly he passed away way to young. RIP

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ggbruuce
8mo ago

Rip to the legend matt.

Will share my thoughts and what not. I stumbled upon him early in my career, we both worked with the same coach as did Linus and a couple of other big names. He was a guy that seemingly had a great talent for poker while working hard. Matt was suspected for being a bot even pre solver era, he loved to reg war at deep ante highstakes tables on stars. He was mainly sus of being a bot because of his fierceful style. It's just not a thing or was that random guys would show up to reg war everyone deep ante at hs. Back in this day he had access to some great games (i.e bodog) but regularly challenged himself to play the best. It was clear early one that he didnt care about money and he just loved the competition. I don't want to talk too much out of position but he was a hero in nvg but also outside of it. He fought some amazing battles while coming out on top in private games vs the top of the crop. While i never know him outside of random small talk and our mutual friend that coached me at one point, I always had a lot of respect for him. I have regwarred vs pretty much all sickos for the last decade. Matt was one of the opponents i disliked playing the most. I would happily agree that otb in his hey day and Linus at any time was killing me (and plenty of others). But the issue with Matt was that he didnt play a pseudo gto style so it didnt seem obvious at all that he was better than me. He would make theoretical mistakes and play this deep stacked lag style that was hard to combat and would also piss me off. It just wasnt easy to accept him owning me. Close to 99% of people that are better than me always felt like they studied harder/knew equilibrium better. He was a outlier, his heart and brains was just big enough to take on almost everyone.

I will try to dig out some hands to post here if i can find any. As mentioned before i don't feel comfortable sharing some things but if there was such a thing as hall of fame hsnl regs he certainly belongs there. Feels mandatory to salute him for his nvg nickname berkey, rip again berkey.

AvatarDeeepz
8mo ago

RIP Matt
I first came across Matt/pmachine/Isidro on stars, a new highstakes player who would battle anyone at HU and 3handed at 2k. The way he played you could feel his passion for the game through the other end of your monitor while playing against him; a true redline warrior.
A few years later I saw him playing on GG, playing everyone at 5k and 10k HU and 3max+. His playstyle and dedication to the game immediately sparked my interest and we connected through his coach and mentor who used to be also my coach.
Sure enough Matt and me started working together, bouncing ideas off of eachother and deeply studying single handhistories in hours-long discord calls during 2022/2023. His creativity and talent for poker was one of a kind.
He would find the 3x+pot overbetshoves in spots noone would even think about those sizings at the time and to me that was mindblowing.
I felt so proud seeing Matt rising through the stakes and eventually we started playing against eachother a lot at the 20k+ tables. With his talented, creative and hardworking mindset there has never been any doubt he would reach the highest stakes and beat the toughest games out there.. he became a true legend of highstakes poker

I wish the Isidro Legacy will live on forever
You will be missed, Matt

AvatarMayox
8mo ago

Just doesnt feel real man

I didnt know matt in real life, but over the last few years I spent more time with him than I did with my closest friends.
I used to dread him coming online and even (still) have a note on my whiteboard saying QUIT ISIDRO HU
He was really a beast at the tables and I was very happy when he finally moved up to play higher stakes and left me alone at 1k

We played some sick hands over the years, but he really had my number, no matter what I did I just seemed to lose

I know that in the coming years we would have met in real life and reminisced about our epic battles, and from what ive heard we would have really got along
Its so sad to think that that will never happen
He was just a guy like any one of us, with the same dreams and ambitions, and he made it man, and then it was all taken away just like that, cant believe it

Enjoy life while you can bros, you really never know when it could all be over

RIP ISIDRO
RIP MATT
RIP MAESTRO

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