It's Z's World

[user66118]

We just caught the tail end of a big pot at Table 237 between Steve Zolotow and Al Barbieri. Walking up after the final card was out, we saw Zolotow turn over trip kings. Barbieri had a jack showing on board, and he rolled over his first two down cards, revealing two more jacks that had been hiding in the pocket, leaving his seventh card face-down.

"What do you got?" asked Zolotow, who was a little impatient for Barbieri's liking. "I don't know. I'm sweating it," he said, as he very slowly squeezed his last card. He needed to pair any of his cards to make a winning full house (or quads), but it appeared he missed as he slapped his cards onto the table face-down.

Barbieri wanted one more look though; he gathered his seven cards into his hands as if playing Rummy, giving them one last long staredown before once again slapping them down on the table and shaking his head.

With his bigger trips, Zolotow raked in the pot worth about 18,000 chips. He has climbed up to 44,000, bumping Sugar Bear down to 28,000.

Tags: Al Barbieri Steve Zolotow Sugar Bear