Rep Porter raised up his small blind and Jameson "Pumpkin" Painter called in the big blind.
Porter bet out on the flop and again on the turn and Painter called him on both streets; they both checked the river and Painter took it down with just .
Steven Cowley and Jameson Painter got involved when Marc Naalden raised and Steven Cowley reraised from the cutoff. Over to Painter in the small blind who four-bet, Naalden folded and they saw a flop.
Painter bet out on the flop and again on the turn, but just check-called on the river. Cowley turned over pocket to put him up to 345,000; Painter mucked and is down to 142,000.
Jared O'Dell raised from the button and Ian Johns (or Ewan Jones, as the TD announced him when we started) called out of the big blind.
Johns check-raised on the flop and then bet out on the turn and again on the river. O'Dell called, but mucked when Johns flipped for the flopped straight.
Johns: reaching for the sky on 220,000
O'Dell: crashing down to earth on 120,000
Marc Naalden dipped down to 810,000 when Alex Keating made a rather lovely full house holding on an board. Naalden mucked.
He was able to get back up to the heady heights of 880,000 though on the very next hand. He found in the small blind and big blind Tommy Hang stayed in until the river of the board where he mucked to Naalden.
A nice river for Steven Cowley on the board -- he'd raised from the button with and Rep Porter called; Porter bet out on the flop and again on the turn and then both players checked the river. Neither had a flush, but Cowley made a bigger two pair on the river to beat Porter's .
Porter managed to lose another big hand to Tommy Hang, leaving him on just 46,000, and was in some trouble.
So when Porter found under the gun he raised, and then called a reraise from Jameson Painter one seat down.
Porter got his last in on the flop... but Painter was only too happy to call with his pocket , and with not enough help from the turn or river, we are down to eight.
It's been an up and down day for Most Enthusiastically Railed Player Of The Day, Jameson Painter.
Knocking out Rep Porter with some timely pocket aces actually helped to drag him out of the 90,000 hole he'd found himself in, but he was back down to just 55,000 after an encounter with Alex Keating.
Keating raised under the gun and Painter called out of the big blind to see a flop, on which Painter check-raised. He bet out on the turn and then check-called a bet form Keating on the river -- and mucked to Keating's full house.
A couple hands later and Marc Naalden raised under the gun and Painter reraised from the cutoff; call. Naalden checked the flop and Painter bet; Naalden raised and Painter called all in.
Painter:
Naalden: that classic under-the-gun raiser
Turn:
River: to make Naalden a straight for good measure.
"Go back in the tournament!" shouted one of Painter's disappointed railers, as the media mused upon the terrible irony of Painter's orange-clad railers (that's the Pumpkin color) inadvertently wearing the Dutch colors for the gent who'd just knocked their boy out.
Tommy Hang raised from the button and Alex Keating called him from the big blind. Both players checked the flop and Keating bet out on the turn; Hang called. They went back to checking on the river, at which point Keating announced, "I have nothing." "I probably have a bigger nothing," replied Hang, and indeed he did -- he turned over to beat Keating's .