Ascari Entertains, Pagano Doubles
As Fabrizio Ascari was forced to fold his 3-bet to a shove, the dealer checked if the self-styled "Mad Italian" had actually folded.
Ascari launched into a little speech, "I have king-king off, it's an impossible call against the second chip leader here...hahahahhaa."
The next hand saw Luca Pagano raised to 5,700 and Andras Nemeth moved all-in from the button to cover. Pagano asked, "You have something like tens, jacks?" He then called all-in for 59,000.
The flop was helping neither player as suddenly Ascari began to sing, "Forever young, I want to be, forever young."
Unperturbed by this outbreak of Alphaville, the dealer put out the turn and river and Pagano, the EPT's record casher doubled to 120,000. Also, he managed to get Ascari to temporarily stop singing for a few moments, an even more impressive feat.