The Mystery Siege of Malta’s third and final starting day began at 12pm. Its starting an hour earlier than the first flight began on Thursday, to allow it to finish in time for Day 2, which is scheduled to begin at 8pm. It’s already showing signs that it will be a busy one, with over…
Friday is the second full day of the 2025 Battle of Malta Spring Edition and will feature another starting day of the Main Event at 1pm and the final opening flight of the Mystery Siege of Malta at 12pm. The Mystery Siege will also conclude today, as its day 2 begins at 8pm, where those…
The first day of the 2025 Battle of Malta Spring Edition included a lot of poker and a few surprises. 1st Surprise The first surprise was that the Eden Arena looked a little different as the set up has changed. There is no stage in the middle of the floor. The tables are all well…
The first episode of the new daily Battle of Malta talk show has just dropped* on YouTube. Battle Chat TV isn’t the name of the show, just a placeholder that I’ve used for this post. If you can come up with a better name than this (I’m sure you can), head over to our social…
It’s that time of night when the blog team reduces by one, as my shift has now come to an end. But the Battle of Malta will not wait for sleepy heads like me and play will continue for many more hours. It’s not the end of the coverage though, as Chirs Karlen and Alek…
The first non-satellite tournament of the Spring Edition has now ended and we have our first winner of the series. That honour goes to Gabriel Morales Ruiz, who defeated a field of 23 players to claim the €1,840 first prize. Ryan Wilson took second place for €1,220 with Ferry Sparla and Micheal Cauchi filling the…
Experimentation is nothing new at the Battle of Malta and today marks the start of another new feature, a daily talk show. We still haven’t come up with a name for this new show, feel free to make a suggestion on the Battle of Malta Facebook page. It will be a brief show, no more…
The players in the Main Event have now returned from the dinner break and level 10 is now in progress, with blinds of 1,000/1,500 and a 1,500 big blind ante. The field has now risen to 143 entries, 71 of which are still in contention. Giulio Spampinato, the first player to be eliminated has now…
The opening flight of the €300 Mystery Bounty has now concluded, with the 19 survivors all in the money. Leading the way into Day 2 is Jonathan Wong, who bagged a stack in excess of half a million and almost 100,000 ahead of his nearest rival. Pos Player Name Chips 1 Jonathan Wong 527,000 2…
The 66 remaining players in the Main Event is now on a 75-minute dinner break. The chip counts of the leaders are being totalled up and we’ll have them published shortly.