Mattern Still Ducking and Diving
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One gets the feeling that Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern has been living constantly on the knife edge this tournament. Since he lost chips early on Day 1A he's never been in a critical position but never, seemingly, been over 40 big blinds. That "In between" stack play is what separates the bad from the good and the good from the great tournament players. Decisions in this bracket are so crucial and that makes them so difficult.
The Frenchman just took down a pot to move up to 38,000 or 31.6 big blinds. He was sat in the small blind and completed. Priit Turner checked his option from the big blind and the flop came 
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Mattern led for 1,900 before Turner raised it up to 4,800. Mattern was having none of it and pushed all-in. Turner thought for a minute before folding. Mattern flashed us (and only us) his holding of 
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