With 360 runners on Day 1e, we have a total of 1,978 entries and the prize pool is over €1,000,000. Below are the starting flights in numbers: Flight Entries Survivors Average % Advanced Chip Leader Chips Big Blinds Day 1a 273 41 166,463 15.0% Antoine Talvard 691,000 115 Day 1b 353 53 166,509 15.0% David…
While we slept the sleep of the just after three very long days, poker was already being played at Casino Malta early this morning from 10 o’clock. The last starting day of the Battle of Malta attracted over 300 entries, bringing the total number of entries across all starting days to almost 2000. Flight 1e…
With all set and done, we have a new overall chip leader. Lior Sahar manages to bag 639,500 chips and leads the pack going into Day 2. Tomorrow Today at 10 am starts the last turbo starting flight and at 7 pm Day 2 will commence. We will be back for coverage of Day 2.…
Name Chips Big Blinds Ilyaev Raul 509,500 85 Shmuel Maman 434,500 72 Asciak Michael 360,500 60 Steven Smart 329,000 55 Kyriakos Mitsopoulos 297,500 50 Yair Kimhi 238,500 40 David Lappin 210,000 35 Dusan Bartak 181,500 30 Oliviero Bacchi 177,500 30 Andrea Dominici 171,500 29 Doron Ferenbach 165,500 28 Diego Grisiglione 150,000 25 Udo Hemmert 142,000…
The bubble at the Main Event lasted only one hand. Over at table 13, Marco Bartolini was all-in in the first hand of the hand-for-hand mode with . He was called by and could not find any of his two outs to win the hand. With that, all the other players are in the money…
We’re still 4 players away from the money ranks in the Main Event Day 1c. But the Turbo Flight Day 1d already commenced with 29 / 193 entries surviving the day. We will come back with chip counts for this flight in a bit.
We’re right before the bubble with 123 players left. 119 players will make Day 2 and be in the money. After the end of Level 16, the players embark on the last 20-minute break of the day.
Level 15: 3,000/6,000 (6,000) Entries: 129/799 In a rather unusual hand, we saw Nikolaos Zacharakis fold Ace King before the flop. The hand began with him raising from middle position. Behind him Johan Guilbert re-raised and the action was back on Zacharakis. He made it 55k. Without skipping a beat Guilbert moved all-in for 142.5k.…
Level 15: 2,000/4,000 (4,000) Entries: 144/799 The blinds are high, the stacks are shallow, and the actions sometimes are forced. One of those virtually forced actions was Desmond Farrell’s all-in with and 4.5 big blinds behind. Leonardo Romeo went along for the ride but had Farrell crushed with . Lady luck had other plans than…