Over at Table 362, Kyle Julius open-shoved for his remaining 22,000 chips from the cutoff and then there was a bit of confusion.
The player on the button released and another player in the small blind quickly folded, but he needed change so the action stalled for a bit. Once the deal made change, the last player in the big blind called and tabled .
"What?" Julius blurted. "Slowroll?"
Julius opened and was well behind until he mad a set on the flop. The turn () and river () were both blanks, and Julius more than doubled to 45,500 chips.
"You took so long," Julius said. "I thought for sure you were folding."
We're going to be results-oriented and say it was a good thing he called.
A player in early position made it 16,000 to go and Dutch Boyd called. On the flop, EP checked, Boyd bet 16,000 and EP called. The turn was the and EP once again check called, this time to the tune of 32,000.
The river went check, check, Boyd just about taking the pot with over . The recent bracelet winner is now up to 200,000.
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.
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.
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.