Final Table About To Start
The final eight contenders for the Battle of Malta title have now gathered in the conference centre at the Intercontinental Hotel. Casino Malta staff are currently preparing to get things underway. The live stream will be on a 30-minute delay and our coverage on the blog will be in sync with the stream, to avoid…
Meet The 2025 Battle of Malta Spring Edition Finalists
Let’s find out a little bit about the 2025 Battle of Malta Spring Edition’s Grateful Eight Seat: 1 Name: Giovanni Caggia Age: 37 Nationality: Italian Hometown: vittoria Chips: 4,725,000 Lifetime HendonMob Cashes: Unknown Giovanni is one of three Sicilians on the final table. He doesn’t speak any English at all and we haven’t been able…
Battle of Malta Spring Edition Reaches Final Table
The 2025 Battle of Malta Spring Edition has now reached its final table. It will be played out to a finish at Intercontinental Hotel, adjoined to Casino Malta, with play commencing at 2pm. There are now just eight players left out of the 1,542 who began the quest for ultimate triumph, the €120,000 top prize…
Side Events Roundup
Even though the Main Event has long since ended for the day, three of today’s four side events are still ongoing at Casino Malta and the Intercontinental Hotel in St Julians. The one event that has been completed was the final Pot Limit Omaha event, with a €220 buy-in. It attracted a field of 20…
The Grateful Eight
Day 4 of the Battle of Malta is now history. After Gabriele Carro’s exit, courtesy of Rasmus Lundstroem, play was adjourned. The final table will begin at 2pm on Wednesday 9th April, when the Grateful Eight will return for the final skirmish of the Spring Edition. Grateful, not hateful, there’s only positive vibes at this…
And Then There Were Nine
The final table of nine has now been reached, but play will continue until one more player falls by the wayside, as tomorrow’s TV final table is eight-handed. Here are the chip counts and the seat draw. Play is about to resume, with 64 minutes left in the level. Pos Player Name Chips Table/Seat 1…
Ivaylo Eftimov Departs in 10th for €8,100
Level 30: 100,000/150,000 (150,000) Entries: 9/1,542 Having lost the majority of his stack against Adrian Zeimichod, Eftimov was left with just 650,000. He moved all-in under the gun and was called by Robert Perelman in the big blnd. Eftimov: Perelman: It was all but over on a flop of and the on the turn made…
Chip Counts at the Break
It seems to becoming a two tier event, with a gap beginning to grow between the chip rich and the chip poor. While Adrian Ziemichod and Rasmus Lundstroem are chip aristocrats, Azerro and Szucs are paupers and the rest occupy a burgeoned middle class. Will this chip imbalance bring the day to end in the…