Sugar Bear on a Roll
Omaha 8/b
Al Barbier seems to be losing small pots and winning big ones. That's a great way to build a chip stack. He three-bet the button after Hani Awad opened with a raise. Awad was the only caller.
Awad checked and called a bet on the flop and another on the turn. When the board paired nines on the river, , both players checked. Awad had nines and fours with ; that wasn't good enough against Barbieri's tens and nines, with two other cards.
Barbieri and Dustin Leary are threatening to blow away the rest of this final table.