Brutal Day Ends in Bust for Mattern

We ran into Arnaud Mattern in the hallway, not a good sign when a new level just started and no break is to start for over an hour. Mattern told us he had a brutal day and followed up that statement with a series of hands that eventually resulted in him being knocked out.

In one hand he called a middle position raise from the small blind with . Mattern explained that his neighbor in the big blind was a very novice player who literally didn't knew the hand rankings, and so Mattern did anything to get into a pot with him. The big blind folded unfortunately so Mattern was heads up. Mattern flopped gold on and check raised the 500 continuation bet to 1,500. His opponent called and called the 2,600 bet on the turn as well. The river was the and Mattern bet 4,600. His opponent called with and so beat Mattern's flush with a slightly higher flush.

Another hand saw Mattern cold call with tens from the small blind after a raise and three bet to 1,000. The initial raiser called as well and Mattern was the only one check calling another bet on with two hearts. Mattern check folded to a second barrel on the turn and his opponent claimed to also have tens.

A third hand that helped eliminate Mattern's stack was one where the Frenchman called three barrels with on a board of . His opponent had jacks and Mattern was left with just about 12,000 after that hand.

With that stack Mattern finally found a big hand. Mattern opened with queens on the button for 400. Frederik Jensen made the call in the big blind and check called a bet of 500 on . Jensen checked called another 1,200 on the turn after giving it some thoughts first. The river came the and Jensen checked a third time. Mattern bet 3,000 with just a small stack behind, and Jensen pushed all in. Mattern was convinced Jensen had something like , or at least a better hand than queens, and mucked.

With just 4,800 remaining, Mattern squeezed all in with after a 500 raise and call. "This was just one of these days where the guy had aces" said Mattern who couldn't out draw his opponent despite turning a gut shot.