Arnaud Raises It Up High
Business as usual for Arnaud Mattern who won the first three pots of this level uncontested. Dmitry Vitkind took the next two pots with a push from UTG and then he got a walk in the big blind.
Then in the most interesting hand so far this level, Konstantin Bilyauer opened preflop to 125,000 from UTG+1/Hijack, and Kevin Stani made the call on the button. Vitkind folded in the small blind but Mattern now put in a big 3-bet to 420,000. Bilyauer looked as though he wanted to fight back and you would suspect that sooner or later he will be making a big move. But on this occasion Bilyauer folded and so did Stani, both appear to be avoiding confrontation...for now.