Luca Pagano
It is common knowledge that being good with numbers means that you’re good in chess and other games that involve logic and computation. Poker is one of those games, and world famous professional poker player Luca Pagano is just one of those people who 
is able to apply his math skills from a computer programming degree as well as his experience trading in the stock market in order to excel in poker. While browsing through the internet, he stumbled upon PokerStars.com and this marked a significant point in his career where he made the decision to play professional poker full time.
Luca started playing online poker and learned the ropes almost immediately. After gaining enough confidence to play in land casinos, he started to play at the free tables with no real money involved. It was during these “trial games” that Luca realized his amazing potential to excel at poker. He knew he was the player to beat, and so did the other players.
When Lucas finally started to play with actual cold hard cash, it’s safe to say that his life changed forever. The winnings started small – PokerStars online tournaments, low stakes cash tables, and even some of the smaller live tournaments. When he finally amassed enough wealth to build up his bank roll, Luca decided to join tournements with higher stakes.
His first major victory came in the form of 24,500 US dollars for the European Poker Tour Main Event last September of the year 2004. Four years later, we find him taking home more than half a million US dollars for winning the European Poker Tour’s No Limit Hold’em Main Event. He currently holds the EPT’s world record for the player with the most number of cash wins, and Luba continues to play the tables and develop his poker skills until he can finally win the WSOP Bracelet someday.