Josh "brikdog24" Brikis and Tom Schneider were heads up with the board reading . Brikis led for 7,200 and Schneider called.
The turn brought the and Brikis led again - this time for 11,200. Schneider again called.
Both players checked the on the river and Brikis rolled over for a pair of queens. Schneider mucked, and Brikis is now up to 92,000 chips. Schneider slipped to 102,000.
The board read when PokerStars Team USA Pro Victor Ramdin and an opponent got all the chips in the middle.
Ramdin's was in front, but his opponent held and was drawing to any club in the deck. The on the turn gave him two more outs as well, but the on the river bricked off.
Ramdin successfully doubled to 105,000 chips and is looking for another deep run at the 2010 WSOP.
After Larry Wilder had raised it up from early position, Jonathan Little moved all in for the cut-off for around 20,000 and Wilder made the call.
On their backs and it was coin flip time with Wilder a gnat's nose hair in front with versus . A board proved of no use, and it was too Little, too late for the former WPT champ.
A player on Table 366 was just penalized for checking behind with a straight flush.
The board read and after checking behind the gentleman tabled not knowing he had the stone cold nuts. His tablemates were confused, and although they weren't suspicious of collusion, they called over the floor to investigate.
Sure enough he was penalized for one orbit for, "soft play." Here's the official rule from Section IV of the 2010 WSOP Official Tournament Rules:
"Collusion includes, but is not limited to, acts such as: chip dumping; soft play; sharing card information with another player; sending or receiving signals from or to another player; the use of electronic communication with the intent to facilitate collusion; and any other act that Rio and WSOP deem inappropriate."
The man exited the Amazon Poker Room for a smoke, and will return shortly.
Sam Trickett, who finished second in an event earlier in the Series, is now your current chip leader with a meatalicious 365,000. On one hand, he flat called a raise with pocket aces, check-called a seven high flop (the initial raiser ducked out of the way) and led for 20,000 on the king turn. His opponent pushed all in with pocket fives, and Trickett snapped him off with the bullets before duly evading the two remaining outs on the blank river.