Paino Takes a Hit
We just caught the tail end of the betting action, but Tom Dwan was all in after a flop of , and chip leader Antonio Paino put him to the test. With close to 150,000 chips in the middle of the table, the cards were on their backs:
Dwan: (second pair, flush draw, gusthot straight draw)
Paino: (top pair, gutshot straight draw)
The turn was the to improve Dwan to the king-high straight and put him one card from a double up. Paino needed to fill up or catch a jack to eliminate "durrrr", but the river was a safe blank, doubling the dangerous Dwan.
He's up to 145,000 now, and Paino is still doing just fine with his stack of 240,000.