Sliding Down the Matternhorn
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First up he found himself holding
on an 
flop; not bad. But the turn came another six, the river an irrelevant three, and his opponent turned over a six to beat Mattern's top two.A couple hands later and Mattern found himself holding
in the small blind. He and Luca Falaschi got all the way to the river of an 
board, at which point Falaschi turned over pocket fours for a full house and took possession of most of Mattern's remaining chips.Mattern was down to just 6,000 and looked rather depressed.
"BUT," he said, "The good news is I brought my snowboard..."
and Negreanu's opponent bet 3,200. Negreanu quickly kicked in his hand, dropping to 25,000.
and Horecki checked. Nitsche bet 750. The other two players folded, prompting a raise to 2,000 by Horecki.
, trailing Nitsche's 
. The 
turn and 
river were blanks for Horecki and he is out early in Day 1a.