"Don't Bluff The Romanello!"
Roberto Romanello has seen his stack swell by more than one million chips after making a great call on the river against Marco Leonzio.
Romanello raised from the cutoff to 125,000 and only Leonzio, in the big blind, came along for the ride. A flop of was met with a check from both players but Leonzio came out betting to the tune of 230,000 when the appeared on the turn. Roberto made the call, meaning we would see a river card.
The river was the and Leonzio quickly bet 700,000. Romanello counted out the chips and placed them in front of him. A call would leave him with just 10 big blinds but he made it anyway and was rewarded by Leonzio mucking his hand without even showing what he held!
Romanello turned over and mucked his other hole card before telling Leonzio, "I've said it before in this tournament. Do not bluff the Romanello."
At this point Emilliano Bono said, "Let's tell him in Italian in case he don't understand," which they did, much to the ammusement of the large number of supporters on the rail.
Romanello up to 2,625,000