Arnaud Mattern Leads EPT Tallinn Final Table

French poker pro Arnaud Mattern looks to make EPT history tomorrow.

Arnaud Mattern has one European Poker Tour title and more than $1.5 million in tournament earnings since 2005. Now he’s one step away from doing something nobody else has ever done – becoming a repeat EPT winner. Mattern won his first EPT title in Prague, Czech Republic, back in 2007, and this will actually be his second chance to become a repeat winner. He made the final table of the EPT Polish Open main event in Warsaw back in 2008 but finished in fifth place.

Now he holds the chip lead after four full days of play at the EPT’s first stop in Tallinn, the capital of the Baltic republic of Estonia. With just eight players remaining he holds more than 29 percent of the total chips in play, while Norwegian online qualifier Kevin Stani and Russian live satellite winner Konstantin Bilyauer, who sit second and third in chips, each have more than 20 percent of the chips in play. 

There are still five other players at the table who will have something to say about the eventual outcome in Tallinn, too. But there’s no better position to be in heading into the final table than that of Arnaud Mattern. With €400,000 and the chance to become the first player ever to win two EPT main events on the line, a victory in Tallinn would be career-defining for the French poker pro. As for whether he’ll be able to achieve that feat, we’ll have to wait until the cards get back in the air tomorrow to find out.