Pagano Closes the Gap
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The first two players kicked in their cards, and Luca Pagano completed from the small blind. Oleksandr Vaserfiner made it 100,000 straight from the big, and Pagano quickly added the matching chips to the pot.
The flop came out
, and both players checked. Fourth street brought the 
, apparently the action card. Pagano stacked out a bet of 150,000, and Vaserfirer quickly reached for raising chips. He settled on 350,000 and moved them across the line in two towers of blue checks.Pagano would take his time to mull it over before quietly announcing, "All in." Slowly and steadily, he pulled each 20-stack of chips out and stuck them across the betting line. The total was right around 1.1 million, and Vaserfirer shook his head and eventually folded away his hand.
After that big chip-up, Pagano has moved to about 1.45 million, now hot on the heels of Vaserfirer's 1.6 million.