It’s time for me to go home, otherwise I won’t wake up in time to write the story of Sunday at the Battle of Malta article, which will be posted tomorrow morning. Just before I go, a quick update on our former BOM Champions. There were four in the last time we reported on their…
They’re still falling at a pretty fast rate in the Main Event, with another hundred poker souls departing, but not empty handed. Here are the latest players to have their status changed to “eliminated.” There were actually five former Battle of Malta Main Event winners still in when we reported that there were four, our…
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it” With that thought in mind, let’s take a look at what’s going on at the Battle of Malta, right here, right now! Main Event Day 2 Day 2 of the Main Event is swimming along nicely,…
Level 19: 10,000/15,000 (15,000) Entries: 367/6,039 More hopefuls who are now without a hope, going no further this time. Position Name Payout 450 Magnus Roennbrant € 1,600 451 Dariusz Maniecki € 1,600 452 Daniel Triana € 1,600 453 Pedro Faustino € 1,600 454 Antoni Dzhelaliev € 1,600 455 Andrea Valentini € 1,600 456 Domenico Virgilio…
Here’s the latest batch of players who came, saw, but failed to conquer the Battle of Malta Main Event. They do take something home for the efforts though. Amongst this lot is Nicodema Piccolo, the winner of the very first Battle of Malta, in 2012. He finished in 627th place, taking home €1,200. Position Name…
While the Main Event is our main focus on this blog, we also like to keep you informed about what else is going down here at the Battle of Malta Autumn Edition. The Quoi Gioco €1,100 High Roller started recently and is now in the second level of the day, with over 170 entries so…
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 (10,000) Entries: 622/6,039 The blinds have just gone up and almost a quarter of those who started the day are now fallen soldiers on the battlefield floor. Here’s the next batch of losers. Position Name Payout 650 Domenico Di Vito € 1,100 651 Dimitrios Orfanidis € 1,100 652 Morten Lampe € 1,100…
With players falling at fast rate, there’s a quite a queue of players at the payout desk. It’s snaking all the way past the media area and into the adjoining corridor. This is probably going to be the situation for a while. I have just one thing to say to the hordes of people standing…
There’s over €250,000 up top and a min-cash is worth €900. Pos. Prize 1 €254,070 2 €153,450 3 €110,150 4 €83,800 5 €63,700 6 €48,450 7 €36,850 8 €28,000 9 €21,300 10–11 €16,250 12–13 €13,700 14–16 €11,600 17–20 €9,300 21–23 €8,400 24–27 €7,600 28–31 €6,900 32–39 €6,200 40–55 €5,550 56–71 €5,000 72–95 €4,500 96–119 €4,050…
Level 16: 4,000/8,000 Entries: 757/6,039 Former BOM runner up Daniel Maunders had the 3rd shortest chip stack at the start of the day with only 9,000 to his name. He was in seat 10 and with the button drawn to be on seat 5, he had only 4 hands before he would be on the…