Payouts Announced!

Level 16: 2,500/5,000 (5,000) Entries: 299/1,992 The payouts have been announced for the 2023 Battle of Malta Spring Edition €600 Main Event at Casino Malta by Olympic Casino. All the returning 299 players each locked up €1,000 with much more to come with Tuesday’s winner taking home a hefty top prize of €156,600! Here is…

Cards in the Air

Level 16: 2,500/5,000 (5,000) Entries: 299/1,992 Day 2 has kicked off with a replay of Level 16 with blinds at 2,500/5,000 along with a big blind ante of 5,000. There are many short stacks in play as each opening flight played down to the money. So expect some early mayhem with a slew of eliminations…

193 Entries in the Turbo Day 1d

Late registration is closed for the Turbo Day 1d flight with the field attracting 193 entries to bring the total up to 1,618 entries with still one turbo flight to go tomorrow morning at 11 a.m. The prize pool has grown to a whopping €814,663 to crush the €500,000 guarantee slapped on the 2023 Battle…

Break Time

Players are on a 20-minute break. The field is down to 192 players who will return to blinds at 1,500/3,000 along with a 3,000 big blind ante. Day 1c will conclude when the field is down to 120 players or less. So this might not be the last break but it will be the last…

Russo Loses His Short Stack to Vainio

Level 12: 1,000/1,500 (1,500) Entries: 220/799 Giovanni Russo jammed for 3,700 from middle position. The action paused on Jukka Vainio from the button. However, Alessandro Spata likely didn’t see this from the small blind and appeared prepared to act. “How much is it?” asked Spata. He reached for his chips soon after but the dealer…

Only Quads for Pawlowski

Level 12: 1,000/1,500 (1,500) Entries: 232/799 There was a bit of betting going with not much in the pot preflop on the flop when we caught up with the hand with Mateusz Pawlowski committed his stack of 24,000 against Henriques Pereira. Mateusz Pawlowski: Henriques Pereira: Pawlowski was miles ahead but Pereira still had slim hopes…

Vieira Wins Massive Pot With a Set of Nines

Level 11: 600/1,200 (1,200) Entries: 272/799 It was a three-bet pot preflop when Cyril Vieira check-called a bet by Meir Vaqnin on the flop. Things got more interesting after the landed on the turn. Vieira led out for 9,000. Vaqnin jacked it up to 20,000. Vieira three-bet to 50,000. Vagnin four-bet shoved and Vagnin called…

Late Registration Closed on Day 1c

Level 11: 600/1,200 (1,200) Entries: 284/799 Players are back from dinner break, which means late registration has been closed. The Day 1c attracted a massive field of 799 entries with 284 players coming back from the dinner break to bring the total field up to 1,425 entries from the first three of five opening flights.…

Solidoro Wins the Battle of the Daniele’s

Level 9: 500/1,000 (1,000) Entries: 344/789 Daniele Solidoro fired out for 10,000 into a pot of around double this amount with the on the board after the turn. Daniele Gugliotta tanked for a couple of minutes before he called. The river completed the board. Solidoro jammed for 25,100. Gugliotta didn’t tank this time and made…