Sexton Lives On

Mike Sexton is best known to poker-television watchers across the country as the voice of the WPT. He's in today's field, seated at the same table as Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri and Jimmy Fricke. The three got tangled in a big pot preflop. Barbieri opened with a raise to 1,800 that Fricke called. Sexton reraised to 8,000, about 40% of his stack.

Barbieri wasn't happy to see that raise; he mucked his hand. Fricke responded by immediately moving all in. He had Sexton well-covered.

Sexton commented that he thought his problem would be getting by Barbieri. He took a swig from a bottle of Pepsi on a service tray by the table, then moved his chips in. He showed {A-Clubs}