Lunkin Chops With Sugar Bear
Omaha-8 is a tough game and it's a game where you try your best to scoop pots. Most of the time though, pots will be chopped as this one was.
The flop came down
between one of the big stacks, Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri, and one of the shorter stacks, Vitaly Lunkin. Barbieri bet out and was called by the Russian. The turn was the 
and Barbieri checked. Lunkin fired a missile and Barbieri called.The river paired the pair with the
and Barbieri check-called another bet from Lunkin. Lunkin tabled 
for the low half of the pot. Barbieri scooped the high with a flush, showing 
. As happens so often in split games, the pot was chopped.
and Zimmerman fired. he was called. The river was the 
, making the board eligible for a low. Zimmerman bet and was all in. His opponent called.
for the low hand and his opponent scooped the high with 
. Zimmerman returned to keeping his short stack of about 9,000.![[user67765]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
) for a seven-six-low made by sixth street however Croc was visibly upset to see Derei had caught good with his (
) 
(
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and was called down to reveal 
to take it down. He's up to 72,000 chips.
to make Schwartz a flush and eliminate Penn from the tournament. Schwartz has a mountain of chips in front of him that would be close to 90,000.
against he opponent's 
. Mayrinck pulled a full house by the end of the hand, aces over kings, and scooped the pot. She now has 11,000 chips and some life back into her stack.