Vasileios Zisis Regains Chip Lead

Play is now resuming in the main event and stacks of the remaining players have been counted and verified. These are the chip counts of the final ten. Position Player Name Country Chips Big Blinds 1 Vasileios Zisis Greek 38,300,000 64 2 Alessandro Siena Italian 36,275,000 60 3 Shervin Ghassemlou English 28,650,000 48 4 Kyriakos…

Play Slowing Down with 10 Left

Level 38: 300,000/600,000 (600,000) Entries: 10/5,799 Apologies for the lack of updates. Recently things have been moving quite slowly in the Main Event. There have been a few all-ins recently, but in all cases, the short stack has either doubled up or split the pot. In other news has recently been confirmed that we will…

Panagiotis Petrou Out in 11th (€9,290)

Level 37: 250,000/500,000 (500,000) Entries: 10/5,799 Soon after Blokdijk was taken out on the feature table, another all-in took place on the other table. In this hand, Greek Panagiotis Petrou lost out to Alessandro Siena. We didn’t catch the entire hand, but his was not good enough to beat Siena’a on a board. Alessandro Siena…

Hendrik Blokdijk Out in 13th (€8,080)

Level 36: 200,000/400,000 (400,000) Entries: 12/5,799 In the last hand before the break Hendrik Blokdijk pushed all-in for his remaining 4.5m with versus of Pasquale Gregorio, who was still steaming from having the clock called on him in the previous hand with Zisis. It was all over for Hendrik when the board ran out .…

Twelve Left at the Break

The players have now gone on a 20-minute break. Only one player fell during the last level. In one of the last hands before the break, Zisis won a sizeable pot from Gregorio to move north of 30m once again. Updated chip counts coming soon. Breaking News Just as the players were going on break,…

Dinner Break in the Main Event

The Battle of Malta Main Event is now on a 75-minute dinner break.  Full chip counts of the 14 remaining players will be updated shortly. When they return, the blinds will be 200,000/400,000 with a 400,000 big blind ante. Breaking News… In the very last hand before the break, Ionut Arvatu was eliminated in 15th.…

Two Tables Left in the Main Event

Level 35: 150,000/300,000 (300,000) Entries: 16/5,799 After Anthony Ouillon was eliminated in 17th place, table 23 was broken and there are now 16 players left in with a chance of scooping the €300,800 first prize.  Sadly for those who exited in 17th-23rd their chance at a monster pay day is over and they will have…