First Winner of the Week!

The first event to reach its natural conclusion was the €150 White Night. It was won by Dutch player Danny Verheij, who defeated Italian Vicenzo Scarpitti after an intense but amicable heads up battle to claim the €2,100 first prize.  White Knight Result Buy-In: €150 Entries: 58 Prizepool: €7,163 Pos Player Name Prize 1 Danny…

Falcon Piling on Chips

Level 12: 1,000/1,500 (1,500) Entries: 142/362 Denmark’s Michael Kim Falcon was among the chip leaders at the dinner break and things have gone swimmingly since then as he is up to 470,000 in chips, which appears to be the largest in the room without doing a full audit. He just recently took a small pot…

Day 1b Achieves Century Mark

The €300 Day 1b opening flight of the Main Event is on its first break after six blind levels of 20 minutes each. This means there are four more levels of late registration for players to get a fresh stack of 20,000 (half the 40,000 in the €600 buy-in flights) in the €300 buy-in opening…

HyperTurbo Now In Play

The final event of the day is now in play with 21 players now taking part. This tournament really is a fast one as it has just ten minutes for every blind level. A quick glance at the player list reveals that at present, I don’t recognize any of the participants. However there is a…

Full House for Gulas

Level 11: 600/1,200 (1,200) Entries: 169/362 Andreas Katsanis was sitting on a healthy stack when he fired out a pot-sized bet of 21,000 with the on the board. Josef Gulas tanked for more than a minute before he opted to call. Katsanis turned over he and his trips with an ace-nine kicker were not good…

Busy First Day at Battle of Malta

It’s not over yet, but it’s shaping up to be a busy first day at the Battle of Malta Autumn Edition 2024. So far just one of the day’s nine events has concluded. Seven others are still in play and there is one tournament yet to start, the €150 (€130+€20) No Limit Hold’em Hyperturbo, which…

Late Registration Closed; 362 Entries

Level 11: 600/1,200 (1,200) Entries: 176/362 Late registration has closed for Day 1a of the Main Event with the field unofficially attracting 362 entries. Assuming there are no final adjustments after double and triple checking the numbers with the cashier, Day 1a will end when the action is down to 54 players or less, each…