Mandarano Doubles Through Szopinski

Level 9: 500/1,000 (1,000) Entries: 64/152 Silvana Mandarano three-bet jammed her short stack of less than 7,000 and was called by Dawid Szopinski. Silvana Mandarano: Dawid Szopinski: Both players bricked the runout for Mandarano to win the hand with a better kicker than Szopinski to double her stack. Meanwhile, Shaun Decesare, Alfredo Cuti, Julien Micallef,…

Zukovs Boat is Good

Level 9: 500/1000 (1000) Entries: 68/152 Samuel Lindholm opened from the cutoff to 2.000, then called when Andrejs Zukovs raised the button to 6,000. They both checked the flop, but after a check from Lindholm on the turn, Zukovs bet 2,400 and got the call. The river was and Lindholm checked again, then called the…

Mystery Siege of Malta Bounty Hopping

The €450 Mystery Siege of Malta Bounty is well on its way to decimating the €100,000 guarantee in the early goings with 144 entries hopping in early into the first of two opening flights. Players start with a stack of 20,000 in chips with blinds increasing every 20 minutes. Like the Main Event, each opening…

Big Stacks at Break

Level 9: 500/1000 (1000) Entries: 74/152 Alfonso Simone is still leading the field as he is sitting with 250k at the break following Level 8. Julien Stropoli is also still sitting pretty with just over 150k. Below is a look at a few bigger stacks as they’ll be going into the final two levels of…

Third Break

Players are on their third 20-minute break. Blinds will increase to 500/1,000 along with a 1,000 big blind ante when the action resumes. The battle will continue for two more blind levels after the break. After this, a 75-minute dinner break will take place with late registration closed before the start of Level 11

“Not THAT Jack, Please”

Level 8: 400/800 (800) Entries: 76/150 It was all in before the flop when Ahmad Kheil limped early to start things off before Jianyi Liu raised to 2,000 from the middle. Small blind Ian Tabone shoved for 9,200 which pushed Kheil off his hand while Liu called it off with more. Liu was in good…

Ace-Queen No Good for Rodoplu

Level 8: 400/800 (800) Entries: 82/145 Tomas Martini checked after the came on the flop before Tayfun Rodoplu fired out for 3,500 into a pot of around 7,000. Martini raised to 10,500 and Rodoplu called. Martini jammed for nearly 19,000 on the turn. Rodoplu had a few chips more and found a quick call. Tomas…

Calleja Doubles Through Talvard

Level 7: 300/600 (600) Entries: 82/144 Local hero Brian Calleja bet 4,000 into a pot of around 10,000 with the on the board after the turn and was called by French poker beast Antoine Talvard. The river completed the board and Calleja jammed for 13,100. Talvard went into the tank for about 20 seconds before…

Simone Hits 200,000

Level 7: 300/600 (600) Entries: 82/145 Alfonso Simone looks to be the big stack still and is up to around 200k now after sending Killian Desnos to the rail. Taras Khilko started things off with a bet to 1,500, and he was called by Desnos on the button and Frederick Vesterby in the small blind…