Pantaleo's Fortunes Change - Slightly
Finally! Finally Giuseppe Pantaleo has picked up a pot. It wasn't a biggie but it's a start.
Konstantin Puchkov opened for 175,000 and it folded around to Pantaleo in the small blind. He re-popped to 470,000. Puchkov immediately stood up and bent over the table to study Pantaleo, who to our minds looked dreadfully unhappy. Eventually Puchkov folded though, and Pantaleo started out on what he presumably hopes is the long road back to the chip lead.
As far as we can see from squinting at the live feed (as well as hole cards, other things the TV guys are not keen on showing include chip counts) Pantaleo is back up to 2.8 million or so.