Moving Downstairs on Wednesday

The majority of the Battle of Malta tournaments have been held in the Eden Arena, but this is the last day that we will be here. For tomorrow’s final table, the action will take place downstairs, in the conference centre on the level below, where satellites were held. The rig is being set up for…

Scarpa Doubles Through O’Brien

Level 31: 100,000/250,000 (250,000) Entries : 20/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Seated in the Lo-jack, Andro Scarpa min-raised to 500,000. When action came around to Killian O’Brien, he made it 1,200,000 from the Button. Scarpa then elected to move all in for 6,125,000, and O’Brien made the call. Andro Scarpa: Killian O’Brien: O’Brien was trailing, and…

High Roller Final Table

The High Roller has now reached its final tables and the nine remaining players have gone for a short break before it begins.  Their stacks have been counted and verified and the chip counts going into the final table can now be revealed. Dimitrios Amplianitis, the unofficial “Player of the Series” with two victories under…

Kovacs Bids Farewell

Level 31: 100,000/250,000 (250,000) Entries : 20/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Rafal Lubczynski min-raised to 500,000 UTG. Action folded all the way to Peter Kovacs in the Big Blind. Kovacs counted his 2,700,000, then announced all-in. Lubczynski made the call fairly quickly. Peter Kovacs: Rafal Lubczynski: It was a classic coinflip scenario, and the pocket pair…

Chip Counts at the Last Break

Level 31: 100,000/250,000 (250,000) Entries : 22/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 The players have just returned from their second break of the day. Its getting tight at the top between Daskalis and Lubczynski. Pos Player Name Chips Big Blinds 1 Ioannis Daskalis 27.72M 111 2 Rafal Lubczynski 26.32M 105 3 Davis Modans 20.47M 82 4 Veljko…

All-In and “No I Didn’t Call”

Level 30: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries : 24/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 On a flop of and facing a bet of 350,000 from Jan Gompers, Charalampos Siakaras pushed all-in for just over 3m. His German opponent asked for a count, but Siakaras misheard it as a call and exposed his hand . After the inevitable initial confusion,…

Back and Forth

Level 30: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries : 24/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 On a board with roughly X in the middle, Veljko Glavicic checked it over to Jorge Geraldes, who bet 400,000. Glavicic wasted little time before raising to 1,000,000, and Geraldes made the call. The dealer revealed the on the river. Glavicic now bet 1,500,000, and…

Lubczynski Wins the Lot

Level 30: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries : 25/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 I arrived at Table 5 when the board read , with a whopping 10,000,000 in the middle. Charalampos Siakaras had checked it over to Rafal Lubczynski, who’d forced his opponent all in for just north of 5,000,000. Siakaras spent no less than 10 minutes in…