Laurent Polito Opens a Gap

Laurent Polito is used to being in this position, having one four WPT National Main Event titles in his career along with one WPT National High Roller title, and having more than double the number of tournament victories to second place finishes. Despite there not being any major confrontations, Polito appears to be winning consistently, especially pre-flop, to open up a gap of several million in chips.

Polito opened to 325,000 and Armino called. Both players checked the flop and Armino check-called a bet on the turn. Polito bet 1m on the river and Armino tank-folded, showing a nine.

The chip counts are now as follows:

Laurent Polito: 9,100,000
Leonardo Armino: 2,900,000