Pantaleo Extends Lead
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
Quite unlike yesterday's early risers in the chip tower department, Giuseppe Pantaleo has accrued an enormous stack for Level 5 - over 125,000 (with fluctuations, of course). Several others look to have topped the six-figure mark by the dinner break (a level and a half away) but every time we pass his table, Pantaleo's stacks have crept further towards his chin.
His most recent pot: Lukasz Wasek and Andreas Bauer both called Pantaleo's preflop raise to 700. Bauer checked the flop and Pantaleo bet 1,175, called by Wasek in position and Bauer out of it. The turn was the and the same pattern of check-bet occurred - but this time neither of his opponents called Pantaleo's 3,850. Another drop in the ocean...