Day 2 Seat Draw

Table Seat Player Chips Big Blinds 1 1 Francesco Vitale 443,000 55 1 2 Valentin Imperatore 369,000 46 1 3 Maria Koutsouki 682,000 85 1 4 Hristo Stinov 134,000 17 1 5 Ciaran Mccullagh 194,000 24 1 6 Joseph Grech 95,000 12 1 7 Marco Basta 250,000 31 1 8 Giuseppe Verderico 228,000 29 2…

Opening Day 2 Chip Counts

Place Player Chips Big Blinds 1 Iason Filippidis 1,398,000 175 2 Humberto Galindo 1,146,000 143 3 Michael Kim Falcon 1,106,000 138 4 Anthony Ouillon 1,077,000 135 5 Alexander Luciani 1,045,000 131 6 Michael Howard 999,000 125 7 Konstantin Faerber 974,000 122 8 Yarin Matan 927,000 116 9 Cecilia Pascaglini 889,000 111 10 Domenico Candido 879,000…

Some Facts About Today

To eliminate any confusion, here are some facts about today. The final opening flight is ongoing but it’s deep in the game with 142 players remaining and 127 players slated to earn their spots into Day 2 with at least a min-cash of €800. We will be updating the chip counts of the final flight…

Petr Kubenka Bags Day 1h Chip Lead

Day 1h was the largest of the half-priced opening flights, with 422 entries and 32 players surviving. This flight also set the new Battle of Malta record, and with players entering early into Day 1i, it also passed 5,000 total entries for the Battle of Malta Main Event for the first time. Petr Kubenka led…

The Magical 5,000!

The 2024 Battle of Malta Main Event just hit its magically 5,000th entry for a new gold standard and the largest in Malta poker history for this level of buy-in. The new record will continue to grow with tomorrow’s turbo Day 1i €600 opening flight expected to attract another 1,000 entries. Today’s Day 1g alone…

New Attendance Record!

It was always a goal to break the pre-pandemic record for the most number of entries in the Battle of Malta Main Event of 4,657 entries established in the autumn of 2019. Great success has been achieved as the 1,685 entries in the full-priced Day 1g and the 278 entries in the half-priced Day 1h…

75 Dinner Break

It’s get up and stretch time for players in the massive Day 1g opening flight as they set to embark on a 75-minute dinner break. As a point of comedy, it was initially announced as a 75 dinner break. We were instantly curious to see if one player could eat 75 dinners before the floor…

€2 Million and Growing!

Level 9: 500/1,000 (1,000) Day 1g Entries: 1,005/1,614 Total Entries: 4,514 The Day 1g flight has grown to 1,614 and for the first time we are seeing some tables being broken which is great news for those that want to play in the Day 1h half-priced €300 opening flight of the 2024 Battle of Malta…