The end of the day is approaching, but not for the players, as several tournaments are still in play and they have some way to go before the action draws to a standstill for the night. However, for the reporting team, the end of the day has been reached and we are off to recharge…
Second starting day of the Mystery Siege of Malta has no concluded. 21 of the 140 players who started today have joined the 32 who progressed from Day 1a. There have been 350 entries in total and the prize pool is already almost €30,000 above the modest €100,000 Guarantee that Casino Malta placed on the…
Everybody Shuffling Players, players everywhere Day 1 at The Battle of Malta Play Begins in the Main Event Jianyi Lu Jianyi Lu Danny Verheij, White Knight Winner, with runner up Vicenzo Scarpitti Danny Verheij, White Knight Winner Lise Kristiansen Josef Gulas Cards Ready Michael Kim Falcon Soner Vanelderen, Sviten Winner Sviten winner Soner Vanelderen with…
The Sviten was a quiet, but hard fought event which paid winner takes all, as there were just six entries. The last two decided to do an informal deal and restructure the prize pool to ensure there was something for second place, but despite this they took it seriously, playing on to determine the winner,…
The €330 Sviten Special has reached its heads-up action. Karol Olszewski and Soner Vanelderen were heads-up for a title when they agreed to an informal heads-up deal. Despite the money already agreed upon outside of the €200 difference between first and second places, the duo continued to battle on for at least 30 minutes and…
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…
Players are on their third break of the day. Blinds will increase to 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 big blind ante when the action resumes in 20 minutes.
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…
Level 12: 1,000/1,500 (1,500) Entries: 157/362 Adrian Cazacu was among the early chip leaders at the beginning of the day but was down to 18,000 when he jammed with fours. Michal Kral three-bet shoved for 108,000 with tens from a couple of seats over before Jan Oeye called off his stack of slightly less than…
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…