Italian Madness
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Fabrizio Ascari opened for 1,000 under the gun. There was a reraise and a call behind him before he called, and then checked the 
flop. The reraiser checked behind, and the gent who'd called on the button preflop took the pot with a 2,500 bet.
Granted, as hands go, even Day 1 hands, this was not particularly newsworthy - but for the fact that Ascari is in possession of over 60,000 in chips and is therefore currently among our chip leaders.
We spoke to tablemate James "Flushy" Dempsey during the break, who told us a little about sharing a table with Ascari. "Every table has one," he said, "but this guy actually volunteered it - he said 'I am the mad Italian' so I didn't need to wait five minutes to figure it out."