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Porter Picks Up Pot with Pocket Rockets by Jessica on 07.10.08, 4:42 am

Say that five times fast.  We dare you.

Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter (pictured at left) made a lot of headway adding to his chip stack in the final level.  With the blinds 600/1200 ante 200 Devin raised in middle position and the player in the big blind called.  The flop came AJJ and both players checked.  When the 4 fell on the turn the player in the big blind bet out 7.5K and Devin made the call.  The board double paired when the 4 came on the river and the big blind checked.  Porter bet out 15K and the other player thought for a minute before making the call.  Devin turned over AA for the flopped boat and the other player tossed his cards in the muck.

A little while later, Porter picked up another substantial pot on the last hand of the night to increase his stack to 182K. Porter, Nenad Medic and another player saw a flop of 742 and Porter bet 6.5K. Medic folded and the other player called. The J fell on the turn and both players checked. The 8 came on the turn and the other player checked to porter, who bet 14K. The other player called with a pocket pair of threes and Porter showed A4.  We here at PocketFives Live are guessing Devin is feelin oooohhhhkaaaay going into Day 3.

When PocketFives caught up to Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson’s (pictured right) table, he bet out in position several consecutive hands to take down small preflop pots.  When we talked with Darren, it seemed this strategy had been working quite well for him as he was staying strong at 190K.  However, the rest of his table seemed to be tilting before the end of the night as tempers flared and patience waned.  In one particularly inflammatory hand, Darren called a small preflop bet from a player in early position and smartly laid it down to a reraise behind.  Long story short, the floor was called because of dealer errors, the clock was called erroneously, and Darren laughed as he watched his table unravel.  We’re pretty sure he will look forward to his new table draw for tomorrow!

At a few tables over, Mike “RunScreamin” Herder managed to take down a couple of uncontested preflop pots as the rest of his table was dormant, waiting for the clock to run out on Day 2B.  Mike was excited to continue on to Day 3 and will return with a very substantial 208K in chips.

Russell “rdrcrsn” Carson fought the short stack struggle for about an hour after losing the bulk of his chips on a double-draw gone bad a few hours before the end of the day. Carson eventually busted out when he re-reraised a 4k open from the button out of the blind  for his last 18k. Carson’s opponent called with JJ, ahead of Carson’s AK. Carson was looking good after the turn when the board read T-Q-3-K but a nine on the river made his opponent a straight and sent Carson to the rail.  Joining him on the rail as play ended for the day were Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin and David “hosnimbarak” Tazbaz who got it all-in with pocket kings on a flop of Q-8-3 with his opponent holding pocket queens.

Here are some unofficial chip counts we caught as play was wrapping up for the evening:
Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy - 246K
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 237K
Brandon Schaefer - 230K
Tom “titantom32″ Braband - 213K
Mike “RunScreamin” Herder - 208K 
Aditya “intervention” Agarwal - 200K
Devin “TranquilChaos” Porter - 184K
Darren “DABADESTCHIC” Nelson - 171K
Leo “SuperfluousMan” Wolpert -170K
Garrett “GBecks” Beckman - 155K
David “DavidP18″ Peters - 153K
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier - 150K
David “Raptor517″ Benefield - 140K
Thayer Rasmussen - 140K
Brian “Like7″ Lamanna - 133K
Darren Elias - 132K
Aaron “NDGrinder59″ Steury - 130K
Senovio “DorsalFin” Ramirez - 125K
Tracey “xtrACEy” Nguyen - 120K
Allen “abari” Bari - 118K
Matt “mattg1983″ Graham - 102K
Spencer “spankybabes” Lawrence - 102K
Mike “yngmanN4quiki” Postle - 101K
David “Bakes” Baker - 100K
Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg - 90K
Jason “strassa2″ Strasser - 87K
Daniel “voff” Deveau - 85K
Brian “snagglepuss” Powell - 75K
“Bodog” Ari Engel - 73K
Frank “Round42″ Rusnak - 70K
Justin “truesyalose” Truesdell - 67K
Scott “BigRiskky” Clements - 66K
Mohsin “chicagocards1″ Charania - 65K
Clayton “clayton27″ Newman - 41K
Chris “cmoney3″ Kline - 35K
Ryan “Daut44″ Daut - 26K
Michael “benvo123″ Benvenuti - 23K

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