Clash of the Big Stacks
A couple hands later, all of them taken down by simple preflop raises, Arnaud Mattern raised again, and this time Konstantin Bilyauer called in the cutoff. They saw a flop, and the media all edged a little closer to the table.
The flop read and Mattern bet out 130,000. Bilyauer called, and the press edged in just a little more.
The press would soon back off again, though, as both players checked down the turn and river. Mattern revealed , but Bilyauer turned over for the second-tiniest full house, and took the pot.
Mattern has slipped down to 3.05 million, but that is still a quarter of the chips in play and good enough for the chip lead. Bilyauer meanwhile is gaining on him, with more than 2.6 million.