Benyamine Gathering Chips
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A player in middle position limped and the player sitting to his left raised to 1,350. It folded back to David Benyamine in the small blind who called the raise, and a short-stacked player in the BB called as well. The original limper stepped aside.
The flop came 
. Benyamine bet the pot, and his neighbor committed his final 1,150 to the pot. The dealer was clarifying the action, saying "pot bet, call," which Benyamine thought might have been the preflop raiser saying "pot" (as in he was reraising). "He bets pot?!" said Benyamine, and the situation was quickly explained to him. "He's excited!" said the all-in player, perhaps suggesting Benyamine was happy to take this hand as far as his opponent wanted.
Whatever the case, the original raiser folded, and the remaining two tabled their cards. Benyamine had 
while the all-in player had 
. "Nut-nut," said Benyamine, referring to his strong draws in both directions. But the turn was the 
and river the 
, and the pair chopped the pot with Benyamine taking the high with his straight and his opponent the low.
Benyamine is up over 17,000 now.