Sugar Bear Gets Salty
It took until 10:15 for Sugar Bear to flip his lid. Not too bad. Al Barbieri is now screaming and yelling in something between a stand-up comedy routine and a temper tantrum.
"Bunch of fourth-graders playing poker over here!" he shouted. At full volume, Barbieri complained about the players at his table not knowing where the button was, playing the wrong game, grabbing cards out of the deck to rabbit hunt, and other behavior Al deemed inappropriate for the game's top pros. "What? They put you guys on tv?" Mike "Little Man" Sica egged him on from the rail, and Greg "FBT" Mueller threw in his two cents from 30 feet away.
Of course, while he was speechifying about professionalism, Sugar Bear had to be reminded the action was on him. Barbieri folded, freeing himself to stand up behind his seat to add a bit of theatricality to the performance.
The floor came over to calm Barbieri down and issued him a warning. "What? I'm disturbing other people?" He seemed genuinely surprised. Matt Glantz, who is sitting next to Al, said he didn't mind, but Sugar Bear's monologue could be heard clear across the Amazon room. Barbieri told the floor man that he'd needed the chance to rant and will behave now.