It was a whirlwind heads up match that saw Sean Cardoso take down his first live win and first Ring here in the Black Chip Bounty. He got heads up with Edmonton McDonald's magnate DJ Sharma with the chip lead and never looked back. In the final hand, the money went in on the flop with Cardoso technically holding the best hand with a flopped pair of fives, but Sharma actually on better odds with the but flush draw and overs.

Sharma bricked all of his draws on the turn and river though, giving the BC resident his first live win. It was a pretty quick heads-up match, but I had a chance to get a little footage of them competing for the bracelet late Sunday night, or early Monday morning.

"I really wanted to win the ring." Those were DJ Sharma's words when I chatted with him after the game tonight and he was actually a small favorite to double and stay alive on the final hand, despite winner Sean Cardoso flopping the best hand technically with a pair of fives. Sharma was on major outs with the nut flush draw holding but Cardoso's queen-five hit a pair on . Sharma's draws and overs were about 1% ahead of the pair for Cardoso, but that's only relevant when it gets there. turn and river bricked for Sharma and he had to settle for second place.

Sharma has been knocking on the door lately with a Main Event FT this year on the other local tour as well as a win earlier this year in an Edmonton charity event. he'll have to wait for another day to add a ring to his trophy case, however.

It was a brutal end to the night for Wayne Hoffert tonight, largely at the hands of SJ Sharma. Hoffert had to endure two different Sharma Times. After Hoffert doubled Sharma up, he shoved 370k on the button. It folded to Sharma in the big blind, and after doing some mental math, he elected to call blind.

"Congratulations, I'm calling blind," he said, flipping over nine-four, well behind the ace-eight for Hoffert. Sharma time came on the turn this time as Hoffert missed the board and Sharma turned a nine.

That leaves Sharma heads up with Sean Cordoso with Cordoso in the lead.

They are down to 3 left now after Richard "Shadow" Hoffmaster ended his day in 4th place. His opponent turned a queen to take it down, but the Montana resident who likes to come up to Canada once a year at least picked up $4,266 for 4th.

You always know when DJ Sharma has won a hand -- it's SHARMA TIME! It was blind on blind when DJ Sharma shoved the small and Wayne Hoeffert snap-called the big. Sharma needed to hit with against for Hoeffert. Hoeffert flopped his jack on but the flop also put Sharma on a gutshot. The river was a brick, but the river hit Sharma in the gut for the big double.

Hoeffert has doubled and taken some hands since then, so he's chipped back up. 

It was blind on blind when Jason Tomei shoved the small and Sean Cordoso snap-called from the big. Tomei was dominated with king-seven into king-queen suited. The board ran dry for both hands and the queen kicker played to send Tomei out. Tomei is among the more entertaining players in the game and with DJ Sharma at the table, they've been chatting it up quite a bit.

They are down to 5 now after Bobby Gropp busted in 6th place tonight. I've been working on pictures so I haven't been able to watch much action.

It was a brutal run for Edric Lim at the end. He had over a million chips before it all went south on him in three successive hands that included losing ace-king vs ace-king to a flush.

There are 7 players left now after Leizel Castro hit the rail in 8th place. Castro final-tabled the closing Big 30 Stach game in January this year so this is her second Circuit final table.

They are down to 8 left now after Kevin White's sevens couldn't hold against ace-jack when it hit two pair.

It's been a day. The Black Chip bounty is now down to the final table with just 9 left. Aaron Hill, who is here with the KKPoker crew, was 10th place, busting just as the final table was being set.Hill went out in a particularly brutal fashion with death by underquads. He was all in with queens against nines, but the nines flopped quads for a decisive no-sweat runout.

The full payouts to 10th place are loaded under the Payouts tab.

There are three games scheduled for today with Day 2 of the 4-Flight playing out in the Chrome room, the Seniors game nearing the end of entries in the Sundance room, and the Black Chip Bounty set to start at 5 pm tonight.

Players will sit down with 20k in chips for 20-minute levels throughout the day. They'll have 9 levels to enter the game or rebuy and the last chance to enter should be about 8:30 pm tonight. This game may not get any coverage tonight depending on how the 4-Flight and Seniors games go. At the very least, I'll get the results updated by the end of the night or first thing tomorrow (which on my schedule is like 2 pm usually lol).