Matusow wins $5k 2-7 Lowball event!

An interesting line-up to say the least, the $5k 2-7 Lowball w/Rebuys always gets his famous faces at the final table. Partly because it's a game not many people play, and partly because the buy-in, along with the fact that it's a rebuy, causes people to pay 3.2 times the original buy-in on average, thus making the average cost of competing in this event about $16.000! With 85 entrants and a total of 272 rebuys and add-ons, we get to see a decent prizepool of over 1.7 million dollars, not bad eh?

So another sick final table, only 2 of the 7 haven't won a bracelet yet (David Benyamine and Tony G) while all of them are familiar faces to the general public. For Erick Lindgren this is the third time this year he makes the final day, finishing 1st in event 4 and 10th in event 12. Tom "durrrr" Dwan fell just short of this final table btw, when he got knocked out 8th.

So chipcounts at the final table:

Seat 1: Jeffrey Lisandro (Salerno, Italy) 461,000
Seat 2: Mike Matusow (Las Vegas, Nevada) 520,000
Seat 3: Tom Schneider (Scottsdale, Arizona) 162,000
Seat 4: Erick Lindgren (Las Vegas, Nevada) 1,104,000
Seat 5: Barry Greenstein (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) 541,000
Seat 6: Tony 'G' Guoga (Melbourne, Australia) 394,000
Seat 7: David Benyamine (Las Vegas, Nevada) 410,000

Those who didnt have a bracelet were out pretty quickly, Benyamine and Tony G busted out first, so we'd be sure to have player win his 2nd or 3rd bracelet. Meanwhile all players are chatting along, which makes Mike "The Mouth" Matusow feel like he's in his natural habitat. With him, Lisandro and Greenstein being the last 3 standing, play continues for over 4 hours like this. Matusow, as calm as ever: "You ain't gonna get in my head like you did before," Mike Matusow said to Jeff Lisandro. "I'm not tired now. You ain't gettin' in my head like you did. "Nope, you're gonna donk it off to me, and then you're going to say 'oh well.' I got all day. I mean, I tried to bluff one time. I'm 0-for-1. I'm about ready to try number two. I can't handle it no more.".

Than we see some more action. First we see Barry Greenstein all-in, losing to Jeff Lisandro because he drew a pair vs the ace low of Lisandro. He finished 3rd.

This means Jeff Lisandro and Mike Matusow are heads-up for the title, both with about equal stack. With tabletalk from Matusow going up, so was his chipstack, more and more winning the big pots off Lisandro. When they finally got all-in for the title, Lisandro announched he'd draw one, while leaving 9-6-5-3 behind. Matusow considered his options, with Q-8-7-4-3 he could go either way, either draw the Q or not, he decided to stand pat after all. That meant that if Lisandro would draw a pair or Q or higher, Matusow would win his 3rd bracelet, and it was just that, when the came down, Mike Matusow won his 3rd bracelet and $537,862 with it.

Final results:

1.Mike Matusow $537,862
2.Jeffrey Lisandro $347,004
3.Barry Greenstein $225,552
4.Erick Lindgren $156,151
5.Tom Schneider $104,101
6.Tony (Tony G) Guoga $78,075
7.David Benyamine $58,990

By: Pindarots

my favourite player, SWEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTT!!!!!

hah Matusow was one of the first faces of Poker I got to know nice that he won in the middle of such a sick table

so now he is only what, 3 million in debt?

jesus that final table must've been hell

i'm glad matusow won, seems like he runs worse than any other pro ever

wow sick Durrrr

ya Durrr is doing very well !

i hope ESPN broadcast this final table

On June 12 2008 13:23 alphablend wrote: so now he is only what, 3 million in debt?

more, with the cash monies he lost it all and bought more drugs

Now we'll have to listen to how he pwned wsop and has multiple bracelets etc ...etc...

pretty impressive, im sure mike could have been a good player if he didnt suck

On June 12 2008 16:47 all_in_4tw wrote: ya Durrr is doing very well ! i hope ESPN broadcast this final table

I'm not sure if they're gonna broadcast the entire final table, because the first 4 hours or so they werent actually playing on the actual TV table (some rumours about insurance problems or something). So if they're gonna broadcast, it maybe after the eliminations of Tony G, David Benyamine and Tom Schneider, leaving only 4 players at the table. But that all remains to be seen, it could be that they'd have filmed the other table as well, but I'm not sure about it. This is what's in the live reporting about it on wsop.com:

Slight Delay Play should be underway in a few minutes. There was a long discussion between executives from the Rio, Bluff magazine and ESPN as to whether the final table should be moved into the Milwaukee's Best Light No-Limit Lounge and be broadcast on ESPN360. There apparently was an insurance issue with moving the final table into the lounge and so, for now, players have taken their seats at a table just outside the lounge. Nolan Dalla was overheard saying that if the issue can be resolved during the course of play today, we will move into the lounge. As to be expected for such a star-studded final table, the rail is full of spectators.

A New Era of Poker Much to the dismay of players and fans alike, this final table is not being held in the Milwaukee's Best Light No Limit Lounge/ESPN Final Table area. Details are scarce, but rumor has it this was due to some sort of insurance issue. When the subject was recently brought up at the table, Barry Greenstein playfully pointed out "we never had any insurance issues at Binion's." "They didn't have anything to insure!" retorted Matusow.

Anyway, we'll have to see about that.

On June 13 2008 01:42 Nazgul wrote: pretty impressive, im sure mike could have been a good player if he didnt suck

lol wut