Mercieca Hero Calls

Level 5: 200/400 (400) Entries: 125/152 Jeremy Bametz limped in from the cutoff and Arun Sardana followed suit on the button. Vitalii Shcherba completed his small blind before James Mercieca made a raise to 2,400 from the big blind. Bametz and Sarda got out of the way, but Shcherba made the call. Both players then…

Risky Business For Pace

Level 5: 200/400 (400) Entries: 126/152 A raise by UTG player and a call on his left didn’t seem to bother Itaco Voto who re-raised to 3,500. Luke Pace was sitting on the button and he didn’t think twice before putting in his remaining 13,000 chips (32,5 blinds) in the middle, the first two players…

Scott Loses Consecutive Four-Bet Pots

Level 4: 100/300 (300) Entries: 123/144 Edas Cimbolas raised to 700 in the cutoff and was called by Massimo Bruno on the button. Ashley Scott then made it 2,800 to go in the small blind before Ville Pohjalainen four-bet to 6,700. All three players folded and the pot was shipped to Pohjalainen uncontested. The next hand,…

Sposato Doubles Through Karlsson

Level 4: 100/300 (300) Entries: 123/139 There wasn’t much in the pot when Mats Karlsson checked the flop. Gaspare Sposato bet 1,100. Karlsson check-raised to 4,000. Sposato tanked for a few moments before he called. Karlsson fired out for 5,000 on the turn and was called by Sposato before checking the river, which put a…

Sardana Puts On The Pressure

Level 4: 100/300 (300) Entries: 122/142 Heads-up action between Arun Sardana and James Mercieca after a raise and a call by the latter. We saw a flop of which looked in favor of Mercieca on the small blind as he led it for 800. Sardana looked like he was thinking about a raise, but ended…

Sardana Thinks Wrong as Staniukaits Eliminates Nedden

Level 4: 100/300 (300) Entries: 123/139 Moritz Nedden threw in his final 300 chips from under the gun, after which Arun Sardana made a raise to 600 in the next seat over. Nikodermas Staniukaitis then three-bet to 2,100 on the button and Sardana called. The flop fell and Staniukaitis continued for 1,500, which Sardana check-called.…

Three-Way All-In On The FLOP!

Level 4: 100/300 (300) Entries: 121/136 A big pot was played after a raise from Domenico Condo UTG, a call by Stylianos Kollatos on the cutoff, and a re-raise by Egidijus Zube to 3,200 which was called by both his opponents. Off to the flop and quick checks by Condo and Kollatos, followed by another…

Assorted Big Stacks

Player Chip Count Big Blinds Eimantas Pleksavicius 79,000 263 Jens Voertmann 64,500 215 Vito Burgio 60,000 200 Itaco Voto 59,000 197 Vitalii Shcherba 57,500 192 Oliver Briegel 56,000 187 Tadas Stasiulis 55,500 185 Rytis Pranarauskas 53,200 177 Pawel Pudlowski 52,000 173 Achilleas-Grigorios Kouros 52,000 173

First Break of BoM

The 115 players who are playing on Day 1a of the Battle of Malta Main Event can enjoy some of the Maltese sunshine as they have been sent on a 20-minute break. I 115 giocatori che stanno giocando il Day 1a del Main Event del Battle of Malta possono godersi un po’ di sole maltese…