Luca-ing Good
We arrived at the table to find the board reading and Luca Pagano going all in from the button for 10,500 or roughly twice the pot. David Frieling (under the gun) looked rather irked by this, and sat for a long time just scratching his head and thinking about it. Eventually he pushed the call across the line, but mucked when Pagano turned over for the rivered straight.
If you recall yesterday Arnaud Mattern was rather short rather early - before in the course of two massive hands finding himself among the chip leaders and staying that way for the rest of the day. Pagano right now seems to be heading the same way - although he's still a little below his starting stack after that, he is not afraid to get his chips in and we would not be in the least bit surprised if he ends up making his seventh EPT final table this week.