Pagano Near the Top
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flop, with Luca Pagano on the button. The first player checked, the second player bet 6,500, Pagano called and the first player got out of the way.Pagano and his opponent went heads up to the
turn and this time Mr. Opponent checked. Pagano bet 7,000 and Mr. Opponent stacked up his chips and looked just a hair's breadth away from shoving - but he folded, and Pagano took the pot to put him up to around 130,000, in contention for the chip lead.