Vaswani Has the Best Hand This Time
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Phil Hellmuth had worked his way back up to a respectable stack - but then plummeted back down to 30,000 again.
Ram Vaswani had opened for 3,000 from the button when Hellmuth made it 8,600 to go. Vaswani called, and after a brief argument about change (Hellmuth had thrown in 10,000 and declared 8,600; the dealer had done something a bit unusual with this), they saw a flop.
Both players checked the 
flop, and come the 
turn Hellmuth bet out 3,000. Call. They reverted to checking on the 
river and Hellmuth announced a pair of eights, but didn't show them as Vaswani turned over 
for a pair of aces.
Hellmuth got up and walked off, although he was back mere seconds later for the next hand, muttering some Hellmuthisms including, "At least you had the best hand," repeatedly.