Although this is the first day of our blog coverage, it’s not the first day of the festival, as that began on Tuesday evening with two satellites to the main event, plus the first starting day of the €450 Mystery Siege of Malta event. But let’s call yesterday Day Zero as today is the first…
The Battle of Malta began in 2012 and this is the 14th running of the biggest poker event in Malta. The Autumn 2024 edition has a packed schedule of over 40 events, including the €1.5m guaranteed Battle of Malta Main Event, the €100,000 GTD Mystery Siege of Malta and the €300,000 GTD Quigioco High Roller. …
Day 4 of the Battle of Malta Spring Edition’s Main Event on Monday saw 101 contenders return to the Eden Arena at the Intercontinental Hotel to fight it out for a place on the eight-player final table of the €600 buy-in event. It was also the second day of the Amazingbet €1,100 High Roller and…
Seat 1: Daniel Maunders (15,130,000) Daniel Maunders comes from Southampton and usually plays in local casinos in his home town and nearby Portsmouth, where he achieved his best live cash to-date, £19,736 for winning a £400 buy-in tournament in Portsmouth. It’s not first trip to Malta and this is second Battle of Malta Main Event…
The Final Table of the Battle of Malta will be live-streamed tomorrow afternoon, but earlier in the festival the €150 FLIP Ladies Event was also covered, with Jason Glatzer calling the action. It was originally intended to be just the final table on the stream, but a late decision was made to cover the entire…
The Dark Knight is one of the staple tournaments at the Battle of Malta. Its a recurring €220 No Limit Hold’em event and this is the fourth edition of it during the Spring Festival. When most people think of the Dark Knight, they instantly conjure up images of Batman, the caped crusader of Gotham City.…
The €250 MAS Full Bounty, which is a 100% Knockout Tournament is now underway. It’s €220+€30 and players get €220 for every bounty they take. Should be interesting! The players are just beginning to take their seats for this rare structure. It’s very tempting to just quit the day job on the spot and buy-in…
The final mixed-game event of the festival started slightly later than the 5pm advertised time, as most of the contenders were still out in the paddock and had not even put their saddles on by then. But they soon began to trot into the venue and the tournament is now in-running with nine players now…
€1100 High Roller Amazing Bet Reggressive Final As I arrived today for the start of my shift, I happened to pass table 76 of the Battle of Malta High Roller, where the colorful and enigmatic Italian player Fabio Peluso was in the act of shoving all-in for his remaining chips on a board. I’d missed…
With the Main Event resuming and the High Roller also attracting a sizeable field of late entries today, it was already a busy room by 1.30pm. The first side event of the day to shuffle up and start dealing is the €330 Novibet Ultra Deep PKO. There were just over 100 players in their seats…