Richard Busts Trickett; Takes Chip Lead

There was a Sam Trickett-sized hole over on the far table and Frenchman Otto Richard sitting with a large stack of chips.

Richard told us that Trickett had opened preflop and that he (Richard) and Ram Vaswani had called to see a flop. Trickett bet 60% of the pot on the flop with Richard the only caller. Trickett bet the same percentage on the turn before shoving on the river for just over the size of the pot. Richard had called him down with and Trickett flashed before mucking.