The first day witnessed the Battle of Malta Main Event field grow to 608 entries. Humberto Lopes Galindo leads the way after bagging up 1,146,000 in chips on Day 1a. There is already €239,163 in the prize pool with still seven more opening flights to go. Today’s action is already a barnburner with already 260…
Daiva Byrne has become a mainstay here at the Battle of Malta, having hosted many of the €150 NLH Ladies Events in the past. The Lithuanian poker influencer, who founded the women’s poker group FLIP, will once again be the host for the €150 Ladies Event on Monday, Nov. 4 at 4 p.m. This event…
Level 2: 100/100 (100) Entries: 226/233 Manish Rawal fired out for 3,300 with the board and a bit more in the pot. Sergidis Philippos paused for a few moments before he called. Rawal turned over the for Broadway. Philippos couldn’t match the nuts and mucked his hand for Rawal to collect the pot. Manish Rawal…
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.