The very next hand after Matusow relentlessly sent jabs toward Phil Hellmuth, Matusow found himself with all of his chips in the middle and was called by Clayton Mozdzen. Both players turned their hands up and their remaining cards were dealt.
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Mozdzen made a straight and was able to scoop the pot and send Matusow to the rail.
Chris Klodnicki was just eliminated by Tuan Vo. Klodnicki mae tens up, but Vo pulled a fifth spade on seventh street to make a winning flush and send Klodnicki out the door.
Josh Arieh just lost a pot to Gary Benson. Arieh has three deuces showing and made a full house, but benson had two aces showing and ended up making kings full.
Both of these players are World Series of Poker gold bracelet winners. Benson won the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event in 1996 and Arieh won the $3,000 Limit Hold'em in 1999 and the $2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha in 2005.
We caught up to the table to find Phil Hellmuth absolutely steam rolling his table. With bet out with showing on fourth street and received one call. Hellmuth drew the on fifth street and his opponent's hand hit the muck faster than Hellmuth could even reach for chips.
Mike Matusow is also seated at Hellmuth's table, and busted into a chorus singing "Phil Hellmuth, he's the man! Phil Hellmuth, he's the man!"
"How ya runnin', Phil? asked Matusow. Hellmuth seemed in the zone and eager to block out Matusow's jabs as he sat motionless with his headphones on. "How ya runnin'?" continued Matusow.
"You've had five flushes, trips four times and you didn't lose one of those hands! Wait, you did lose on, to me and it was only for 1,800!" said Matusow to Hellmuth, who still sat as still as a statue.
Regardless of how well he is running, Hellmuth is arguably the biggest stack in the room right now and is certainly taking control of his table.
Andrey Pateychuk has gone the other way in two recent pots and dropped back to 26,000 in chips. The first one was against Robert Mizrachi and the second against Bryn Kenney. Both times, Pateychuk was beaten by his opponent's two pair.
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On the first hand, Pateychuk was up against Mizrachi and check-called bets on fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. When it was showdown time, Mizrachi turned up the for kings and sixes. Pateychuk mucked and was knocked back to 31,000 in chips.
On the next hand, Pateychuk ran into the two pair for Kenney and mucked his hand on the end. This caused Pateychuk to get kicked down to 26,000 in chips while Kenney rose to 29,000.
Alexander Kuzmin had the bring-in and Daniel Negreanu completed on third street. Cory Zeidman made the call and Eli Elezra also called. When action got back to Kuzmin, he raised. Negreanu, Zeidman and Elezra all called.
On fourth street, Kuzmin picked up a pair of fours and led with a bet. Negreanu calle, Zeidman folded and Elezra called.
On fifth street, Negreanu picked up a pair of aces and led with a bet. "I'm gonna take a shot and bet 1,200," he said as he tossed in the chips. Elezra began to think for a short moment while Negreanu stood up and started joking around. Negreanu waved his hands and pointed at Elezra's cards, saying, "What the fuck are you doing? Look at this guy with king, jack, six! Ha!" Elezra got a good laugh as did the rest of the table. Elezra then folded. Kuzmin made the call.
On sixth street, Negreanu bet his last 1,000 and Kuzmin called. Negreanu turned over the for two pair, aces and jacks. Kuzmin held the on the hole.
On seventh street, Kuzmin pulled the to make a low and Negreanu the . The two chopped up the pot.