Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A Wasannin Players Championship a watan Disamba na 2011, Painter ya doke Colin Osborne, Gary Anderson, Mervyn King, da Scott Rand don isa babban wasan karshe na farko tun bayan Gasar Duniya a 2004. Nasara a kan Rand ya gan shi ya farfado daga 9<unk>6 a cikin mafi kyawun wasan 19 kuma ya tsira daga darts biyu a wasan na goma sha bakwai. Sa'an nan kuma Painter ya doke Mark Webster 13<unk>9 a wasan karshe don lashe gasar farko ta farko a talabijin. Wannan nasarar ta dawo da shi zuwa saman 10 a cikin PDC Order of Merit a karon farko tun 2006. A gasar cin kofin duniya ta PDC ta 2012
, Painter ya ci Arron Monk da Mark Walsh kafin ya sake rasa John Part ta hanyar saiti hudu zuwa biyu.