Matt Graham -- What's My line

Until recently, Matt Graham was widely known for his bracelet in last year’s $1500 limit hold’em shootout. He took on Jean Robert Bellande heads-up and won his first bracelet, while earning $278,180 in the process.

That was just the beginning of Graham’s success as this year, he won his second bracelet in a much tougher field, in event no. 40, the $10,000 pot-limit omaha world championship. This year, he denied Vitaly Lunkin his second bracelet of 2009 and took home $679,402.

With 19 people left, Graham made a big call against Matt Vengrin with just one pair for his tournament life to help propel him to the final table. He sat down to break down his thinking on each street.

Event – Blinds	WSOP $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha	8,000-16,000
Player	Matt Graham	Matt Vengrin
Hand	AA22	KJ109
Chip Count	450,000	420,000

The Hand

With 19 people left, Matt Vengrin limped under the gun for 16,000. It was folded around to Matt Graham who was in the big blind and he raised the size of the pot, to 56,000. Vengrin made the call and they took the flop heads up.

The flop fell 863 and Graham led out for 90,000. Vengrin then decided to move all in for his remaining chips. After five minutes or so, Graham made the call. The two hands were turned up and Graham saw that he was way ahead.

The 10 fell on the turn, giving Vengrin more outs as he picked up another straight draw, a flush draw, as well as any 9,10,J,or K. The 2 fell on the river and that sent Vengrin home in 19th place and put Graham near 1,000,000 in chips.

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