Barber Bursts the Bubble

Limit Hold 'em

After Brian Yoon raised in the hijack and got three-bet by Alex Livingston in the cutoff, Andrew Barber went into the tank with 12,000 of his remaining 19,000 chips in on the big blind.

Barber waited a couple of minutes before making a decision to see if any other players were all in as well. Word got to him that Phil Hellmuth was all in during a pot in Stud Hi-Lo, but that the outcome would be a chop.

After receiving that news, Barber committed his final chips.

The flop came 4♦K♠Q♣ and after a check from Yoon, Livingston bet and Yoon folded. Barber would need some help to survive.

Andrew Barber: 10♠10♣
Alex Livingston: A♠Q♦

Livingston had outflopped Barber's tens, and after the 7♣7♥ runout, Barber became the bubble boy putting the final 28 players into the money with a min-cash of $16,354 in their pockets.

The first to collect that sum was Jerry Wong who was eliminated in the first hand after the bubble burst.