"Luca" is Italian for "Aggressive"

Luca Pagano has been involved in just about every pot since the cards went in the air, and we join another of his hands in progress just moments ago. A player under the gun had opened with a raise to 300, and Pagano made the call in the next seat over. When the table folded around to the button, the player there announced a re-raise to 1,000, flicking out a single red raising chip. The initial raiser ducked out, but Pagano came along with another call.

Heads-up then, the flop came out {8-Diamonds}

. Pagano reached for chips and led out into the pot with a bet of 1,200. His opponent shrugged his shoulders and made a shaky-handed raise to 3,000. Pagano capped his cards with a green chip and leaned back in his chair to consider his options. After about a minute, he uncapped those cards and used the free chip to slide them back to the dealer.

"Kings?" he asked. His opponent flashed the {Q-Hearts}

, and Pagano knocked the table. "I folded tens," he said. "Tens."

Pagano's activity cost him about 4,500 chips in the early going, but it is beginning to turn around for the Italian. Following that last hand, Luca has taken down a few small pots with river bets to bring his stack back close to 30,000.

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2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv

2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv

"Luca" is Italian for "Aggressive"