"I Made the Mistake of Flopping a Set of Aces..."
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The early levels have not been kind to Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern - he's down to under half his 30k starting stack after getting involved with the rockets to his cost.
He'd been tricky and slow pre-flop (having a good player in position on him, apparently) and the flop couldn't have been kinder: 
. He checked, and the two others who'd made it to the flop checked behind.
The turn brought a 
and now one of his opponents made a 500 bet. Mattern raised to 2,000 and dislodged the player on the button but not the original bettor. The river was a 
and now Mattern considered the bet of just over 2,000 which faced him. Confident in his hand, there followed a raise and a re-raise - the upshot was a loss of half his stack to the 
which had comfortably rivered the straight.