Barakat Flats Quads on River to Prevent Elimination
Level 18
: Blinds 10,000/25,000, 25,000 ante
Youness Barakat and Matthew Costanzo were heads up in a small pot of 250,000 when they arrived on the J♠10♠Q♠Q♦2♦ river. Costanzo bet 200,000, which Barakat just called.
Costanzo tabled 9♠8♠4♠3♦ for a straight flush. Barakat could only smile as he flashed Q♥Q♣ for quad queens, tossing his other two cards in the muck as he left himself a stack of 15 big blinds.