06-21-2008 21:07 UTC-7

Matusow Gets Quartered

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Ram Vaswani raised from early position and David Chiu, Mike Matusow and David Benyamine all made the call.

The flop came {5-Clubs}

{5-Clubs}

{Q-Hearts}

{J-Diamonds}

and the action checked to Matusow who fired out a bet. Benyamine raised on the button forcing Chiu and Vaswani out of the pot, with Matusow making the call.

The turn was the {8-Diamonds}

{8-Diamonds}

and Matusow checked to Benyamine who bet again. Matusow made the call.

The river brought the {7-Clubs}

{7-Clubs}

and Matusow this time led with a bet which Benyamine quickly called.

Benyamine tabled {A-Spades}

{A-Spades}

{2-Clubs}

{Q-Spades}

{7-Diamonds}

for two pair and nut low. "Is that all? What a river!" exclaimed Matusow as he showed {J-Clubs}

{J-Clubs}

{5-Hearts}

{A-Diamonds}

{2-Diamonds}

for the same low after flopping two pair.

Benyamine gets 3/4 of the pot leaving Matusow back on the short stack with about 175,000 chips.