With just 43 players earmarked for seats in Day and only 54 of the flight’s 286 starters remaining, its now squeaky bum time for those with short stacks in Day 1c of the Mystery Siege of Malta. Day 2 is due to start at 8pm and at the current rate of attrition, they have every…
Level 7: 500/1,000 (1,000) Entries: 166/253 Under the Gun, Angelo Finocchiaro opened to 3,500. Nikolaos Valtatzis called from the Button, and when action came to Vincenzo Mangiapane in the Big Blind, he moved all in for roughly 30,000. Finocchiaro called before Valtatzis folded. Vincenzo Mangiapane: Angelo Finocchiaro: No luck for Mangiapane on the board, and…
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Level 7: 500/1,000 (1,000) Entries: 171/246 Action folded to Artur Gjoka, who went all in for his last 7,700 from the Button. Seated next to him in the Small Blind, Arnaud Cressent made the call. Artur Gjoka: Arnaud Cressent: The flop brought all kinds of excitement, but, in the end, Gjoka doubled up as the…
Player Chip Count Big Blinds Christoph Tanner 247,600 248 Vasileios Batatolis 170,000 170 Antonio Mirabile 168,000 168 Ioannis Tsakiris 158,400 158 Cameron Sinclair 154,900 155 Alessio Assennato 148,800 149 Kostadin Mihaylov 144,000 144 Samuel Lindholm 132,000 132 Bachana Shengelia 125,000 125 Imad Fakhro 123,300 123 Oskari Piira 113,600 114 Gary Fisher 110,000 110 Krysztof Grubka…
Level 6: 400/800 (800) Entries: 172/232 The board read when Thibaut Thevenet bet 10,000. Alessandro Furneri then proceeded to go all in for 16,000. Seated to the left of him, Sergej Schuhmacher called. Action was now back on Thevenet, who attempted to go all in. However, this was deemed an illegal move as the all…
Level 5: 300/600 (600) Entries: 175/222 Kakha Khazaradze opened to 1,600 from UTG+1. Bartosz Karpowicz called from the Lo-jack, and Big Blind-player Alessio Mastrosimone also decided to join in on the fun. The flop came and Mastrosimone came out hot, betting 1,200. Khazaradze and Karpowicz both called. On the turn, Mastrosimone sized up to 2,500,…
Upstairs Battle of Malta Main Event Day 1b Now into level 5, the pace of registrations is picking up and there are over 200 participants, 85% of whom are still clinging to their tournament lives. They will be joined by more as the day progresses and won’t stop playing until just 15% of them remain.…
Level : 200/400 (400) Entries: 160/192 Claudio Trentacosti opened to 1,200 from early position. Samuel Tebege three-bet to 3,600 and only Trentacosti called. The flop came and Trentacosti checked to Tebege. He continued for 1,200 and was called. After the turn peeled the , Trentacosti led out for 2,500. Tebege was quick to make the…
Tomorrow may be the day of the Aintree Grand National, however today at the Battle of Malta it is the mixed game players’ turn to saddle their mounts and ride for glory. The Grand National is a race of attrition, but there are guaranteed to be more fallers here at Casino Malta, once the pace…