Watch the third episode of the Battle of Malta’s daily talk show. In this show Glenn Brown is joined by Telly Bartolo and Casino Malta’s General Manager Slawomir Switalski. News about the Battle of Malta Online Series is revealed in this episode.
With most of our focus being on the Day 2 of the Main Event and the additional distraction of the players party, we’ve barely had a chance to catch up with what else is going on at Casino Malta and the Eden Arena at the Intercontinental Hotel in St Julians. Here’s a brief look around…
The player party is currently underway at The Eden (across the road from the Casino Malta) with a team competition still ongoing. Teams of six players compete to see which team can post the highest score in 10-pin bowling, followed by the lowest number of darts to get from 301 to 0. Needless to say,…
Another pay jump has come and gone and these latest departees all leave with €1,360. Position Player Prize 96 Peter Jaksland €1,360 97 Akser Osak €1,360 98 Francesco Caruso €1,360 99 Alessandro Signoriello €1,360 100 Indre Stanaityte €1,360 101 Gaetano Moribondo €1,360 102 Nikolaos Zacharakis €1,360 103 Bruno Desnos €1,360 104 Sebastian Mortensen €1,360 105…
The latest crew of unlucky hopefuls to exit stage left all left the Eden Arena with €1,180 for their efforts. Fallers at this hurdle included Giulio Spampinato (143rd) and Joris Ruijs (128th). Position Player Prize 120 Leendert Nederlof €1,180 121 Nigel Stentiford €1,180 122 Manish Rawal €1,180 123 Konstantinos Souliotis €1,180 124 Krzysztof Grubka €1,180…
The 135 remaining players in the Battle of Malta Spring Edition are now on a 20-minute break, having completed two full levels of play. They will play six levels in total this evening. Chip counts of the leaders to follow shortly.
The next batch of former participants have now had their poker carcasses removed from the tournament floor. Meanwhile their souls have each collected €1,070 from the payout desk. One of the first to depart once the money had edged up a little was James “Grogsy” Grogan, who fell in 181st place. He had returned with…
There’s Telly, he’s the boss, always dashing around like the most enthusiastic firefly that ever lived, Diane, the steady logistics guru, Marcello staff organiser extraordinaire, Andy legend of a TD, Jason, our media mogul of sorts and Andrii, fixing problems at record pace to keep the show ticking along. But all of them, to a…
As soon as “shuffle up and deal” been uttered, the machine guns began firing and the attrition rate started to ratchet upwards. Within a level of the restart, fifty poker corpses were littering the battlefield floor. Their €1,000 min cashes may help to bring them back to life again someday and try again, on another…
The clock has now been restarted for Day 2, with all 233 remaining players now back in action. But it won’t stay that way for long, as they are expected to start hitting the rail right from the start. Before play began there was another screening of the welcome video, after which Glenn Brown warmed…