Having been absent at the Battle of Malta for a while, the Israeli Poker Championship is holding its first event here in three years. It’s a €360+€40 Deepstack Turbo and has just begun its 4th level of the day, with 196 entries so far. Registration remains open for another two hours.
By the end of Day 1, 55 players had entered the ACR Poker Super High Roller. More than that number again have already paid the €2,200 buy-in and there is just under an hour before registration closes. There have now been 114 entries in total, with new entrants including the site’s sponsored pros Jon Pardy,…
Position Name Payout 40 Eldor Levy-Sahar € 5,550 41 Emmanouil Chalkiotis € 5,550 42 Janos Jancsik € 5,550 43 Milan Vanek € 5,550 44 Sucurija Lika € 5,550 45 Alexander Regler € 5,550 46 Corrado Martinelli € 5,550 47 Marek Ohnisko € 5,550 48 Itay Malach € 5,550 49 Asiil Maye € 5,550 50 Adriatik…
Level 29: 100,000/150,000 (150,000) Entries : 31/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 When the chips were being bagged up last night we discovered that Darren Harbinson sadly had to abandon his stack, after becoming unwell during Day 3. He had been up to 9m chips at one point during the day, but had 5m when he…
Reporting on an 8-day poker marathon can be tiring, but we wouldn’t do it if we didn’t enjoy it. This is the seventh day, and we’ll be creating some content for you, here on the blog and on social media. Today the festival reaches a crescendo, with the three key events taking place simultaneously from…
It was another action packed day at Casino Malta and the Intercontinental Hotel in St Julian’s, as the third day of the Battle of Malta Main Event played down to the last five tables. With seven other tournaments taking place, there was a lot to choose from, with a variety of different formats on offer,…
The players have now departed from the tournament area and their chips are now all bagged up. Pos Player Name Chips Table/Seat Big Blinds 1 Ioannis Daskalis 15,950,000 6/4 106 2 Mikel Calo` 10,700,000 4/4 71 3 Gabriele Re 10,470,000 7/4 70 4 Dalibor Dula 10,270,000 6/3 68 5 Jorge Alves Geraldes 9,970,000 2/6 66…
Level 28: 60,000/120,000 (120,000) Entries: 39/6,039 There’s less than 10 minutes on the clock before the end of Day 3 and the story of the Main Event is beginning to take shape. We’ll have the full chip counts from the survivors once play ends and they’ve been counted, verified and uploaded to the system. Meanwhile,…
The High Roller did reach the bubble during the first level after the dinner break, with just a few minutes left in level 20. Defending a raise from Leon Worthington-Leese from mid-position, Andre Scerri Moved all-in on a flop of and was called. He turned over for an open ended straight draw and found himself…
A few more players from the ACR Poker Super High Roller that have impressive profiles. A Cypriot Andreas Mavromoustakis is also taking part. I recently reviewed an interview that Andreas gave on The Chip Race Podcast, speaking to Dara O’Kearney and David Lappin. Its an interesting listen, but if you wan’t the cliffs, check out…