Level 1: 100/100 Entries: 204/209 The Day 1c field has already gone past 200 entries. Two more players recently hit the rail in Sweden’s Simon Persson and Greece’s Emmanouil Fountoulakis. Persson has already re-entered for a fresh stack of 40,000 in chips while Fountoulakis has plenty of time to do some himself if he so…
Level 1: 100/100 Entries: 171/174 Mayhem erupted on Halloween with several players hitting the rail in the opening moments despite being 400 big blinds deep with a 40,000 starting stack. Sweden’s Tony Kennheden lasted just one hand. The formidable Norwegian Linda Nguyen opened from under the gun and was called by two players including Kennheden…
The early satellites at the Battle of Malta typically attract a crowd of under 200 entries this early in the festival. What a nice Halloween surprise it was to walk into the Eden Arena today to see already 457 entries in the €70 satellite to the €600 buy-in opening flights of the Main Event. The…
Day 1b of the 2024 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition Main Event at Casino Malta and the Eden Arena at the InterContinental Malta was historic as it was the first time a €300 opening flight was held on the island of Malta for this prestigious event. The rules were different to create parity with the…
The €600 buy-in Day 1a of the 2024 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition Main Event at Casino Malta and the Eden Arena at the InterContinental Hotel Malta was a massive success. A total of 364 runners battled it out in a marathon of a day, and 54 players (15 percent) advanced to Sunday’s Day 2…
The €330 Sviten Special has reached its heads-up action. Karol Olszewski and Soner Vanelderen were heads-up for a title when they agreed to an informal heads-up deal. Despite the money already agreed upon outside of the €200 difference between first and second places, the duo continued to battle on for at least 30 minutes and…
Players are on their third break of the day. Blinds will increase to 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 big blind ante when the action resumes in 20 minutes.
Level 12: 1,000/1,500 (1,500) Entries: 142/362 Denmark’s Michael Kim Falcon was among the chip leaders at the dinner break and things have gone swimmingly since then as he is up to 470,000 in chips, which appears to be the largest in the room without doing a full audit. He just recently took a small pot…
Level 12: 1,000/1,500 (1,500) Entries: 157/362 Adrian Cazacu was among the early chip leaders at the beginning of the day but was down to 18,000 when he jammed with fours. Michal Kral three-bet shoved for 108,000 with tens from a couple of seats over before Jan Oeye called off his stack of slightly less than…
The €300 Day 1b opening flight of the Main Event is on its first break after six blind levels of 20 minutes each. This means there are four more levels of late registration for players to get a fresh stack of 20,000 (half the 40,000 in the €600 buy-in flights) in the €300 buy-in opening…