Sliding Down the Matternhorn
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..."