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Arnaud Mattern - excellent posture at least
Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern started this level in great shape on 118,000 - but following a few mishaps he's managed to lose half of those chips.
We witnessed at least some of those chips heading across the table in this manner. Mattern opened for 3,000 under the gun and it folded right around to Tobias Heinsdorf in the small blind, who reraised. In the big blind, Rumen Nanev shoved for around 25,000. Mattern re-shoved, Heinsdorf folded, and they flipped their cards.
Mattern:
Nanev:
Board:
Nanev doubled to 55,000 or so, and Mattern dropped to 60,000. "Nice shove," Mattern told him sadly.
Update
We just received a text message from Mr. Mattern expressing his displeasure with how this level has gone so far. It ended, "Lost every single pot except a set of tens that did not get any action. Doomswitch please."
Luca Pagano, never reaching the upper chip echelons in Day One, has been calmly plugging away today slowly building upwards. He just took a pot from Karolis Grybauskas on the turn of a board betting 9,300 into the now 18k pot and getting a reluctant-looking fold from the Lithuanian.
As he stacked with professionally quick fingers, another Italian on the table, Antonio Tarantino, muttered cheerfully at him, the only word of which I'm pretty sure I understood being, "Momentum!"
Pagano, one of the Italian forerunners of big tournament poker in his home country, has been gracing the EPT with his final table attendances and series of stylish glasses since the very beginning, and the popular player has so far made an eye-opening six finals and 15 cashes.
Dmitry Stelmak just was eliminated calling all-in with on a board against Joe Ebanks' which missed the turn but hit the river to bust the Russian who had gone deep in San Remo earlier this year.
As it turned out, most players who headed out to the balcony on the break said something that sounded like, "Arrghhh!" and immediately headed back inside before they turned to dust. Nevertheless, a few folks braved it, and this is how they looked.
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Liv Boeree - No longer as happy as this.
EPT San Remo champion Liv Boeree had dropped all the way down to 19,000 after she flopped two pair with on an board against Pedro Guedes's which counterfeited her two pair in a monster pot worth about 250,000.
Soon after Guedes knocked Boeree out when his held against her and even managed to flop a set.
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Aaron Lerner in happier times and direct sunlight
A bad level for Aaron Lerner, which turned out to be his last. He was first spotted looking depressed (that's how we generally read head in hands, switching to head on table) after the lady in seat two took a reasonable pot from him the hand before (I only saw the dealer pushing up the turn and river, her hand being and his dwell/muck combo on this though). Subsequently short, with less than 16k which he stacked, clicked, counted and messed into a pool repeatedly, he was just looking for The Spot and looked pained to have passed his button and resigned when he moved in on the cutoff instead. The button called him with and he didn't look directly as his took them on...
No hit and the final race was won by the pair sending him to the rail almost halfway through Day Two.
I remember my father saying something like this, but about bears, I think it was. Anyhow, this always struck me as somehow profound and just now Tobias Heinsdorf experienced the sharp end of a draw as his hit a flop plenty hard enough to commit his remaining stack (over 30k). Dmitry Gromov took him on with which immediately came good on the turn leaving the river just a lime wedge in the flat coke of defeat. Busto, while Gromov continues to build a very big stack - over 200k.
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board betting 9,300 into the now 18k pot and getting a reluctant-looking fold from the Lithuanian.
on a 
board against Joe Ebanks' 
which missed the 
turn but hit the 
river to bust the Russian who had gone deep in San Remo earlier this year.
on an 
board against Pedro Guedes's 
and even managed to flop a set.
took them on...
flop plenty hard enough to commit his remaining stack (over 30k). Dmitry Gromov took him on with 
turn leaving the 
river just a lime wedge in the flat coke of defeat. Busto, while Gromov continues to build a very big stack - over 200k.
