07-10-2009 12:45 UTC-12

Arieh Doubles Through Hellmuth

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Phil Hellmuth moved to table 43, seat 7 joining Josh Arieh and Alexander Kostritsyn. He sat down and immediatly played his first hand in the big blind in the following hand:

Alex Kostritsyn raised the pot to 5,000 and Josh Arieh called from behind. Hellmuth came along for the ride in the big blind saying, "I have a big hand here, boys."

The flop came down {Q-Clubs}

and action was checked to Josh Arieh, who bet 12,000. Hellmuth check-raised to 28,000 and Kostritsyn got out of the way.

Arieh reraised to 63,000. Hellmuth asked for a count of Arieh's remaining stack, and after hearing he had 48,300 more he moved all in.

Arieh snap called.

Hellmuth: {8-Clubs}

Arieh:

When Hellmuth turned over his hand he reconized the severity of his mistake saying, "I'm drawing dead. Good play, kid"

Arieh doubles up with trip queens to 245,000 while Hellmuth takes a hit to 223,000.

Tags: Josh Arieh Phil Hellmuth