"Luca" is Italian for "Aggressive"
Heads-up then, the flop came out . 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 , 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.