Day 4 Seat Draw

Table Seat Name Chips Big Blinds 20 1 Miguel Branco 15,225,000 102 20 2 Ivan Furniet Martinez 6,075,000 41 20 3 Cristian Mihu 4,425,000 30 20 4 Parminder Kandola 3,850,000 26 20 5 Ionut Arvatu 6,700,000 45 20 6 Daniel Mendoza 2,575,000 17 20 7 Alessio Vanni 8,250,000 55 20 8 Anthony Ouillon 2,675,000 18…

Final Five Hands

Level 31: 60,000/120,000 (120,000) Entries: 37/5,799 The floor just stopped the clock and asked each table to play five more hands before bagging and tagging into tomorrow’s Day 4. We will update of any eliminations that take place in the final hands and the final chip counts of the day before we wrap up the…

Jarefjall Runs Into a Wall With Ladies

Level 31: 60,000/120,000 (120,000) Entries: 37/5,799 Nils Jarefjall three-bet jammed from the blinds for about 500,000 and was called by Alessandro Siena, who originally opened from early position. Nils Jarefjall: Alessandro Siena: Siena connected with his king to deliver a bad beat to the short-stacked Jarefjall after the ran out on the board. “Good game,”…

Lots of Small Hands for Branco

Level 31: 60,000/120,000 (120,000) Entries: 38/5,799 Miguel Branco has had a nice run since the break and now has a pile of 30 green chips with a 250,000 denomination and that is just half his stack as he had around 15 million in total. Branco shared that he had a bunch of small hands to…

Big Slick Holds for Lugosi

Level 31: 60,000/120,000 (120,000) Entries: 39/5,799 Angelo Onorato jammed from under the gun for 1,660,000. The action paused on Stephen Dellaire, who asked for a count, before opting to fold. Meanwhile, Marton Lugosi also asked the dealer how much the jam was before he called off his stack of 1,535,000. The rest of the table…

Rockets for Petrou

Level 31: 60,000/120,000 (120,000) Entries: 40/5,799 Davide Ingegnere opened for 240,000 from under the gun before Panagiotis Petrou three-bet to 530,000 from middle position. Gabriele Pischedda jammed for about a dozen big blinds from the big blind. Ingegnere came in over the top for 4.6 million and Petrou snap-called off his stack of around 2.2…

Top Three Stacks From Each Table at Break

Level 31: 60,000/120,000 (120,000) Entries: 42/5,799 Defending champion Vasileios Zisis is going after history as he is in a prime position in second place with 42 players remaining in his quest of becoming the first two-time Battle of Malta Main Event champion. Alexandru Farcasanu leads the way at the break. Check out the top three…

Putz Loses Short Stack to Arvatu

Level 30: 50,000/100,000 (100,000) Entries: 45/5,799 Ionut Arvatu min-raised from under the gun before he called a four big blind three-bet jam by Andreas Putz from the button. Andreas Putz: Ionut Arvatu: The flop wasn’t the worst for Arvatu. Putz was looking good after reducing the amount of outs to come after pairing his ace…

Khazaradze Mucks at Showdown

Level 30: 50,000/100,000 (100,000) Entries: 47/5,799 Konstantinos Karkanidis opened for 250,000 from under the gun and Ivane Khazaradze defended his big blind for the two players to see the flop. Karkanidis check-called a bet of 220,000 on the flop by Khazaradze before check-calling again for 365,000 on the turn. The river completed the board and…