Those of you who are keeping an eye on the chip counts will have no doubt noticed he has flown up the standings after starting the day as a short stack.
He told us he has been all in twice and both times had 100% equity. The first he held on a flop and was all in against then he got his bigger stack in the middle with vs Giovanni Rizzo's on a board.
Now that Mattern has chips at his disposal he has more room to actually play poker and he is certainly a threat again here in Malta.
Sampo Ryynanen is our new chip leader after taking almost all of Alfonso Amendola's stack and all of Timothy Reilly's.
He claimed Reilly's chips for his own whilst holding t Reilly's on a fop that had two diamonds on it, then almost scalped Amendola in a huge coinflip versus .
Amendola lost the rest of his stack with against Ryynanen's when the board ran out .
Andrea Dato is now pretty short-stacked after getting his stack in with against the of Julien Biague. The final board ran out and Biague helped himself to Dato's chips.
We joined the action on the far end of the room where Thomas Eychene was in the cutoff and had 13,000 chips over the betting line and he was in the tank. Jackson Genovesi had raised a massive 56,900, effectively putting Eychene all in.
"King-jack?" asked Eychene.
"I cannot talk about my hand," came the reply, "but I think I have a better hand than you."
One minute later Eychene asked , "Will you show me if I fold?"
"No. Too much information to the table," replied Genovesi, "if it was just you and me then I would but trust me I have the best hand. I'm 85% sure."
Eventually one of the inactive players called time an as Christian Scalszi, the tournament director, got down to 30 seconds on his 60 second clock, Eychene folded.
"Seven-nine!" joked Genovesi, and his table mates all burst into laughter.
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Jason Mercier has finished multi-tasking playing this tournament and high stakes cash games online and is concentrating fully on the task in hand.
He just opened to 2,400 from under the gun and when the action folded to Puk Nabuurs on the button, Nabuurs three-bet to 5,800. Both blinds quickly got out of the way but Mercier had other ideas and four-bet to 12,200. Nabuurs suddenly did not see too confident in his hand an after less than a minute he folded his hand.
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