Sour Bear
2-7 Triple Draw
Al Barbieri raised from the cutoff, and the button called. Phil Hellmuth called from the small blind as well, and it was three ways to the first draw. Hellmuth and Barbieri took two cards, and the button stood pat. Action checked to the button, and his bet was quickly matched by both opponents.
On the second round, Hellmuth took one, Barbieri two again, and the button patted. The action started the same with the button betting, but Hellmuth raised this time. Barbieri quickly announced another raise, and the button tanked and folded. Hellmuth took a stare, then said, "I better get one more raise in here," as he dropped 3,200 chips into the pot. Barbieri now spent a couple minutes in the tank, long enough that he finally made Hellmuth squirm. "You got trips down there or somethin'?" he asked, and Barbieri smiled for a quarter of a second. Eventually, he called.
Hellmuth patted, and Barbieri still wanted one card. Hellmuth bet in the dark, and Barbieri squeezed and spun his cards into the muck.
"You know I like you, Al," Hellmuth continued, "so I'll show you. I had Number Two. You wanna see it?" Barbieri really didn't care by that point, but Hellmuth's half of the table did see him start with 
. Number Whatever, Hellmuth takes the pot to move up to 24,000, knocking "Sugar Bear" down to 9,800 in the process.
for top pair. Aguiar had an inferior 
, and nobody could beat Mueller. He's up to about 28,000 now, sending Aguiar to the rail in his wake.
, he had raised a players bet of 1250 to 5,000 total. Action was on Abraham Mourshaki, who we just discovered is the current chip leader at around 46,000. He folded after about 45 seconds of thought, and the other opponent shoved all in for around 12,000 total. Buchman called, and saw that he would have to dodge some straight outs.
and Buchman held on to win. Mourshaki was upset after the river, saying that he had folded a jack-nine that would have given him the whole pot. Buchman is now sitting on 28,000.
s peeking out.
