Mattern Has Jack, Still 5-bets Ostensson Preflop
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A preflop raising war saw Jimmy Ostensson make it 10k, Arnaud Mattern on his immediate left up it to 30k, only to find him making it 65k. A micropause later, and Mattern had a big stack of 5ks ready to go over the line, and he slowly moved them forward, saying, "One forty-two." This 142k was the final straw which broke this standoff (one hesitates to use the term pissing contest when there is a prizepool of millions of Euro involved), and Ostensson passed.
Mattern showed him 
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