Mattern Moves Up
Level 3
: 100/200, 0 ante
Allen Kessler limped into the pot, and Arnaud Mattern raised to 750. He found four callers including Kessler, and off they went to a flop. Mattern continued out with 2,200 chips, only to be check-raised all in for his last ~16,000 by one of the villains in the hand. Mattern quickly put himself at risk with for the set, and he was ahead of his opponent's .
There were a lot of spades for Mattern sweat, but the turn and river bricked off to double him up to about 34,000.
Mattern has just won another small pot with the same pocket tens, climbing further to about 38,000.