High and Super High Roller News

Both the €1,100 High Roller and €2,200 High Roller are taking place today. The High Roller is on its dinner break now with 120 of the 714 players who started still in possession of stacks, some bigger than others, life isn’t fair. Vasileios Zisis is still in the mix and when they return, it will…

Full Chip Counts at the Dinner Break

Level 27: 50,000/100,000 (100,000) Entries: 62/6,039   Pos Player Name Chips Table/Seat Big Blinds 1 Rafal Lubczynski 12,630,000 1/6 126 2 Gabriele Cappiello 7,480,000 7/2 75 3 Luigi Shehadeh 7,080,000 8/1 71 4 Emmanouil Fountoulakis 5,850,000 1/8 58 5 Peter Kovacs 5,250,000 8/5 52 6 Jan Gompers 4,840,000 8/2 48 7 Dalibor Dula 4,820,000 9/3…

Dinner Break In the Main

The Main Event is now on a 60-minute dinner break. We will be seeking out chip counts before play resumes and will report back on that shortly. Meanwhile, here’s a snapshot of everything that’s going on right now at the Battle of Malta.   Time Tournament Name Buy-in Status Entries/Remaining 11:00 NLH Satellite One Shot…

Sadly, We Have a Cancellation

Tonight’s Poker Experience Tour Hyper Turbo will sadly now be experienced by anyone, as it has been cancelled. There’s almost 1,000 players seated across the events taking place right now and the Super High Roller is due to start at 8pm. The management would like to apologise to everyone for this regrettable, but unavoidable situation.…

Re Makes Bold Prediction After Insane Pot

Level 25: 30,000/60,000 (60,000) Entries: 78/6,039 Prize pool: €2,728,970 At this stage, the pots are becoming very crucial. My feeling is that I see a lot of three-bets pre-flop; players are trying to take down the pots with early aggression. Candido Cappiello opened to 125,000 from UTG+1. Milan Vanek made the call from the Hi-jack,…

Further Casualties

Position Name Payout 80 Danijel Tatarovic € 4,500 81 Lee Mulligan € 4,500 82 Mike Alonso € 4,500 83 Nicolaj D’antoni € 4,500 84 Costa Pinheiro € 4,500 85 Miltiadis Zografos € 4,500 86 Jose Vieira € 4,500 87 Jakub Fiala € 4,500 88 Paulo Sousa € 4,500 89 Flynn Meichtry € 4,500 90 Lorenzo…

Requesting a Mulligan

Level 25: 30,000/60,000 (60,000) Entries: 80/6,039 Prize pool: €2,728,970 Big-stacked Davis Modans fancied an open to 125,000 from the Hi-jack. Lee Mulligan decided to put in a 435,000 from the Big Blind. Modans inspected his opponent’s stack, and then decided to force Mulligan all in for an additional 1,300,000. Without any hesitation, Mulligan made the…

Diperna Finds the Goods

Level 25: 30,000/60,000 (60,000) Entries: 89/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Seated UTG, Charalampos Siakaras opened to 130,000. Nico Diperna made it 405,000 from the Lo-jack, before Jakub Fiala moved all in for roughly 2,800,000 from the Hi-jack. Siakaras spent two minutes in the tank before mucking his hand, but Diperna made the call faster than the…

Chip Leaders in the Main Event

Posting this on behalf of Christoffer, who is having technology issues, as he now will explain: I arrived to the tournament venue at 16:00, eager to join my colleague Jonathan Raab for the Day 3 coverage. Much to my displeasure, my computer decided not to be very cooperative today. After roughly 45 minutes worth of…