Mattern Goes Bananas
At the start of Day 1a and Day 1b the players were informed that they were not allowed to have any electrical devices on the table, but there are allowed to use them if they are on their lap or away from the table. However, the tournament director never mentioned whether fruit was permitted to be on the table and a dealer has just questioned that over on Table 3.
Table 3 is the home to French Team PokerStars pro Arnaud Mattern and he has in front of him two bananas. For some reason the dealer took offence at this and asked Mattern to remove them. Mattern was not happy about this at all and said "In my five years playing live nobody has ever had a problem," before demanding the dealer to "call the floor!"
One of the floor staff came to Table 3 and ruled that the fruit could stay, though Chuck Clark joked he could see a red light flashing from one of them!
"I don't think the tipping will be very high this year," said an upset Mattern.