2007 Bellagio Cup Champion, Kevin 'Belowabove' Saul

The 2007 Bellagio Cup Championship has finally come to an end with the winner taking home over 1 million dollars!

Heads up was between Mike Matusow and Kevin 'Belowabove' Saul. Kevin Saul is a well known aggressive player at PokerStars where he is known as Belowabove. You can find Kevin at the higher buy in tournaments. Ask around there about him and you will learn that he is one of the most feared players at PokerStars. The tow professional players battled it out passing chips back and forth. Until Kevin finally took all the chips in one last hand.

This is how the hand was played out. Saul looked down to see pocket queens and decided to slow play them, Matusow holding 8-7 of clubs. The flop came 10-6-5 the 6 and 5 both being clubs giving Mike an open ended straight flush draw. Saul moves all in with the current chip stack and was called by Matusow. The turn and river were bricks for both players. Kevin Saul's pocket queens hold up and give him the win taking home a total of $1,342,000. Although Mike Matusow did not win, he went home with a heft $671,320 for second place.