Luca Pagano | |
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Born | 28 July 1978 46) Treviso, Italy | (age
World Series of Poker | |
Bracelet(s) | None |
Money finish(es) | 3 |
Highest ITM Main Event finish | 40°, 2006 |
European Poker Tour | |
Title(s) | None |
Final table(s) | 7 |
Money finish(es) | 20 |
Luca Pagano (born 28 July 1978 in Treviso) is an Italian-born poker player who finished third place in the Barcelona Open, a European Poker Tour (EPT) event, in 2004. Since then he has reached six more EPT final tables, finishing in the money 20 times, placing him top of the EPT All-Time Leaderboard. He has also placed in two events at the 2006 World Series of Poker.
He was a Team PokerStar PRO member for almost 15 years and, as of 2017, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,200,000. [1]
Pagano attended the information-science branch at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice; quickly his managerial skills took over and the nightlife family-run business was profitably administrated. The big love for poker comes a little later, during a trip in Slovenia where he played a game in the Casino of Nova Gorica.
He has been a poker professional since 2004, year in which he scored the third place at the EPT Barcelona Open. This rising career takes him to play in the major tournaments having places in the most eminent cities, so that PokerStars chooses to make him the perfect Italian testimonial of the Team Pro. Pagano and PokerStars parted their ways in May 2017, consensually.
Pagano adds to his palmares many successes and builds up a very solid bankroll, rapidly becoming the player with the most in the money placements in all of Italian history.
Together with poker, Pagano is an entrepreneur, Angel Investor, TV commentator and host, main host of the Italian talent and reality show La Casa degli Assi, sponsored by PokerStars and co-owner of Italian professional eSports Team QLASH.
In the European Poker Tour, Pagano gained 20 ITM placements with 7 Final Tables. Despite the strong perseverance, he never scored any first place; his best EPT result is third place in Barcelona in 2004.
On 11 September 2008, Pagano was awarded by the European Poker Tour Awards as "The Player of the Year".
Pagano holds the first position in the EPT All-Time Leaderboard with 5.500 points, right before French player Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, and holds the second position in the EPT ITM Rank Score - he is the first, however, among Italians; the Global Poker Index has estimated his winnings in about $2,212,339.
Date | City | Event | Position | Prize |
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18 September 2004 | Barcelona | EPT Barcelona €1,000 Main Event | 3° | $24,500 |
16 February 2005 | Deauville | EPT Deauville €2,000 Main Event | 8° | $17,492 |
10 March 2005 | Warsaw | EPT Vienna €2,000 Main Event | 14° | €5,750 |
16 September 2005 | Barcelona | EPT Barcelona €1,000 Main Event | 24° | €7,800 |
19 January 2006 | Copenhagen | EPT Copenhagen DKr 30,000 Main Event | 24° | DKr 47,776 |
26 October 2006 | Dublin | EPT Dublin €5,000 Main Event | 13° | $25,563 |
30 October 2007 | Dublin | EPT Dublin €7,700 Main Event | 24° | €10,210 |
19 February 2008 | Copenhagen | EPT Copenhagen DKr 47,750 Main Event | 27° | DKr 84,346 |
12 April 2008 | Monte Carlo | EPT €10,000 Monte Carlo Grand Final | 6° | $533,253 |
10 March 2009 | Dortmund | EPT Dortmund €5,000 Main Event | 6° | $198,900 |
28 April 2009 | Monte Carlo | EPT Monte Carlo €10,000 Main Event | 55° | €31,000 |
20 October 2009 | Warsaw | EPT Warsaw PLN 25,000 Main Event | 4° | $128,930 |
1 December 2009 | Prague | EPT Praga €5,000 Main Event | 6° | €100,000 |
11 January 2010 | Paradise Island | EPT PCA World Cup of Poker NLH | 6° | $2,000 |
20 January 2010 | Deauville | EPT Deauville €5,000 Main Event | 72° | €10,900 |
1 May 2010 | Nova Gorica | All Stars of Poker €5,000 NLH | 1° | €220,000 |
11 August 2010 | Tallinn | EPT Tallinn €4,000 Main Event | 26° | €8,000 |
28 August 2010 | Vilamoura | EPT Vilamoura €5,000 Main Event | 52° | €7,263 |
13 December 2010 | Prague | EPT Praga €5,000 Main Event | 43° | €10,000 |
20 March 2011 | Hinterglemm | EPT Snowfest €3,500 Main Event | 50° | €6,000 |
7 January 2012 | Paradise Island | EPT PCA $10,000 Main Event | 30° | $46,000 |
31 January 2012 | Deauville | EPT Deauville €5,000 Main Event | 7° | €110,000 |
10 October 2013 | London | EPT UKIPT £10,000+300 NL High Roller | 7° | £60,930 |
14 February 2016 | Dublin | EPT €50,000+300 Main Event | 17° | €25,820 |
12 December 2016 | CZ Prague | EPT €2,000+200 Eureka high Roller | 83° | €4,825 |
On 1 August 2011 wins for the first time the Italian Poker Tour Sanremo step, gaining a trophy and €210,000 of prize.
As May 2017, at the time of the split from PokerStars, he holds the 8th place in the "All Time Money List" of HendonMob, for a global earnings of $2,212,339.
Date | City | Event | Position | Prize |
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23 September 2010 | Nova Gorica | IPT Nova Gorica €2,000 Main Event | 12° | €8,200 |
28 July 2011 | Sanremo | IPT Sanremo €2,000 Main Event | 1° | €210,000 |
29 April 2013 | Sanremo | IPT Sanremo €5,000 Main Event | 4° | €8,000 |
30 November 2014 | Sanremo | IPT Sanremo Grand Final €900 Main Event | 20° | €2,400 |
21 October 2015 | Malta | IPT Malta €1,000 Main Event | 87° | €2,210 |
15 May 2016 | Saint-Vincent | IPT St-Vincent €1,000 Main Event | 9° | €5,500 |
PokerStars Festival since 2017 replaces the Italian Poker Tour format.
Data | City | Event | Position | Prize |
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28 January 2017 | London | PokerStars Festival £990 Main Event | 104° | £1,690 |
Pagano's best placement in the World Series of Poker was in 2006, in the $1.500 Seven Card Stud event, where he finished in 40th place. [2]
Data | City | Event | Position | Prize |
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28 June 2005 | Las Vegas | WSOP $2,000 Main Event | 56° | $3,945 |
5 July 2006 | Las Vegas | WSOP $1,500 7 Card Stud Main Event | 40° | $2,610 |
18 June 2008 | Las Vegas | WSOP $1,500 Main Event | 149° | $3,340 |
Pagano co-hosted, together with sport commentator Giacomo Valenti, the famous TV show "Poker1Mania", aired, from 2007 to 2013, late night on Italian public television; the show was the first of its kind featuring the professional game of poker in a less technical language and earned a big audience consensus.
Pagano organizes poker events by the Venice Casino, by the detached branch Ca' Noghera, by the Casino Sanremo, Casino Saint-Vincent, Aosta Valley and Nova Gorica.
In mid 2014, Pagano hosted the first edition of talent and reality show La Casa degli Assi, original format by PokerStars produced by Magnolia Italy; this reality was aired for the first time on a terrestrial satellite TV channel and secondly re-aired on the public television, at night.
In March 2015, Pagano hosted the second edition of the talent show, aired late night on public television.
In late 2016 Luca Pagano announced his entry in the electronic sports frontier with the creation and co-owning, with professional poker player Eugene Katchalov, of a professional team in Italy.
QLASH is one of the most promising[ citation needed ] professional organizations featuring well known players from the national and international scene in different videogames: Hearthstone, StarCraft, FIFA, Fortnite, Clash Royale, Brawlstars, Vainglory, Call of Duty, Sim Racing and more. In much less time the team has been granted with important recognition in the gaming scene. QLASH is also the first professional Italian team to join the prestigious Dreamhack in Austin, with former member Simone "VKing" Larivera ranking a stellar Top20 position in Hearthstone.
In early 2019 QLASH introduced the QLASH House; a gaming house situated in Treviso, Italy. It houses many of their professional players.
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