Last week, we spoke with Matt Matros about his 2004 poker book The Making of a Poker Player. This week, we caught up with the three-time WSOP bracelet winner to discuss his hotly anticipated follow-up The Game Plan, which was published last year, a full 15 years after its predecessor. So what took Matros so long to return to the keyboard?

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“I’d had to cut back on my playing schedule considerably as I became a father two and a half years ago,” he tells us, “My wife works full time, so I’ve spent a lot of my time being a parent and that makes travelling to poker tournaments a lot more difficult. Live poker – and multi-table tournaments were my main game. I had to figure out what I wanted my poker life to be again. I figured writing about the game might be a way back in.”

When it comes to the MTTs that Matros plays, he often meets players who need improvement but aren’t full professionals, and he saw a gap in the publishing market.