Event 4 Flight F: One for Matt Waxman

Escalator VII Series Event 4
$600 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$400,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Flight F Players Remaining:  43 of 295

The player under the gun raised, the player in the cutoff called, Matt Waxman called in the small blind and Steven McKoy called in the big blind.

The flop was 9d6c7h and action checked to the cutoff who bet 18,000. Only Waxman called.

Both players proceeded to check the 2d turn and 7s river.

Waxman showed 8c8s for eights and sevens, besting his opponent’s 4h4s to win the pot.

Matt Waxman  –  180,000  (30 bb)