Arnaud Mattern has been involved in four of the last five pots.
The first time, he made it 150,000 from the small blind. Kristian Kjondal called from the big. Arnaud bet 220,000 on the turn, with the board reading , to win that one.
Next hand, his button raise got through.
After that, Kristian was allowed to steal the blinds from the button.
Arnaud and Kristian clashed again in an unraised pot from the blinds. Kristian bet 85,000 on a flop and Arnaud called. Turn was the and they checked. The river was the and Arnaud bet 150,000, which was quickly called by Kristian with . Arnaud showed .
Arnaud raised again on the button and Gino called. The board read and Arnaud raised Gino's 85,000 bet to 220,000 for the win.
Hand 1: Mattern raises to 140,000 from the button and wins the blinds.
Hand 2: Kjondal raises to 135,000 from the button and takes the blinds.
Hand 3: Gino Alacqua raises to 155,000 from the button and takes the blinds.
Hand 4: Mattern raises to 140,000 from the button and wins the blinds.
Hand 5: Mattern gets a walk. Exciting stuff.
Then finally on hand 6, Kjondal calls from the small blind and Gino Alacqua checks in the big blind.
Flop:
Kjondal bets 75,000 and Alacqua calls.
Turn is the and both players check.
River is the and again no one bets.
All fold round to Arnaud Mattern in the small blind, and he raises to 120,000. Juha Lauttamus in the big blind asks for a rough count of Arnaud's chips and when he is told it's around 1.5 million, he moves all in. Arnaud can't believe his luck as he snaps off an instant call showing two red aces. Lauttamus has pocket nines, which do not improve when the five board cards are dealt out.
Arnaud Mattern is now a big chip leader again with 3,100,000, whilst Juha drops back to the bottom of the counts with 400,000.