Get ready, poker enthusiasts! A thrilling side event is about to kick off here at the Battle of Malta. Brace yourselves for intense Texas No Limit Hold’em action, where skill, strategy, and nerves of steel will be put to the ultimate test! Here’s what you need to know about this exciting side event: Time: 7…
Level 8: 400/800 (800) Entries: 189/332 The action started with the 2022 BoM Main Event winner Giuseppe Rosa raising from UTG to 1,600. Behind him, Vasilij Barna, who had fewer chips than that in his stack, called the raise and was all-in. From the button, Cory Desmond called the raise and the Small Blind called…
Level 8: 400/800 (800) Entries: 189/331 Dominik Asztenborski four-bet jammed for close to 35,000 and was called by Samuel Tebege. Dominik Asztenborski: Samuel Tebege: It was a classic coin flip with big slick facing off against pocket queens. The queens were good after Astenborski’s big slick was unable to connect with the runout. Samuel Tebege…
Level 7: 300/600 (600) Entries: 204/315 Over at Table 10, the French player Theo Baldanza was left wondering about his actions when he was in a big pot against Elhanan Torgeman. We arrived at the table with the board reading and 12k in the middle. Torgeman open-shoved roughly 14k and Theo Baldanza needed quite some…
Level 7: 300/600 (600) Entries: 204/312 Peter Kaspar fired out for 8,500 into a pot of around 20,000 with the on the board. Dimitrios Kilintaris went into the tank for a few minutes with both players remaining quiet at first. “Ace-king?” asked Kilintaris to Kaspar. “You call, I show,” responded Kaspar before adding. “If you…
During the second break of the day, we eyeballed the biggest stacks once more. From the looks of it, Daniel Ryder is our current chip leader with over 120,000 chips. Name Chips Big Blinds Table Seat Daniel Ryder 125,000 208 15 7 Matteo Intiso 110,000 183 19 4 Roberto Caprio 100,000 167 22 3 Domenico…
Players are on their second short break of Day 2. We will update as many of the big stacks around the room as possible during the break. Blinds will increase to 300/600 with a 600 big blind ante when the action resumes.
Level 6: 200/500 (500) Entries: 206/298 We strolled by Table 3 and saw a small pot with only 4k in the middle and the board reading . But the pot was about to grow significantly. From the Big Blind Gaspare Sposato bet 3.2k and Issak Wilhelm made it 11k to go from the Cut-Off. Sposato…
The €150 Ladies Event kicked off with a tidy field of 11 ladies. We wanted to give a special shoutout to Florence Mazet who is in the field. Mazet is an old friend (she’s not old, just this reporter is, but you get the idea that we have known each other for many years) and…