Sweet Lady On the River Gives Mattern Happy Ending
From under the gun, Andrew Lichtenberger raised to 800. The next two players called and then action fell on Andy Bloch in middle position. He reraised to 3,200. Arnaud Mattern called the three-bet from the cutoff seat and play folded back around to Lichtenberger. He thought for a bit and then folded, as did the two players behind him who had called the opening raise.
With play down to just Mattern and Bloch, the flop came down 
. Bloch fired out 5,000 and Mattern made the call.
The turn brought the 
and Bloch opted to check. After a few moments, Mattern announced all in. Bloch asked if he was all in and then asked that if Mattern was all in, if he could push his stack forward. Mattern did just that and started to break it down when Bloch announced a call.
The cards were on their backs and it was Bloch's 
ahead of Mattern's 
.
The river was a big, fat lady in the form of he 
and Mattern spiked his two-outer to double up. He was all in for 13,350 and Bloch sent over the chips. Bloch was knocked down to 2,900.