Mattern For the Worse

We just caught the tail end of the action, but it turned out to be a pretty sizable pot relative to the chip stack of Arnaud Mattern, who was the aggressor in this heads-up confrontation.

On the turn, the board showed {4-Diamonds}

, and Mattern made a bet of somewhere around 10,000, though the exact amount is unclear. Luca Falaschi thought it over for a quick minute before making the call, and the river brought the {8-Hearts}

. Mattern took quite a while to eye up the size of the pot and figure out an appropriate bet, and he eventually settled on 12,400, sliding the chips into the middle of the felt in a long string. Falaschi took only a few seconds to plunk in the calling chips, and Mattern could only tap the felt and say, "You win."

Falaschi flipped over the {3-Hearts}