The opening day ceremonies are one of our favourite traditions at the Battle of Malta. The Spring edition earlier this year took place during the height of Malta’s strawberry season, which resulted in some rather fruity treats for the players. But as today is Halloween, the treats have been replaced with tricks and the entire…
The field had nearly reached 300 entries when the first 20-minute break took place. The blinds will increase to 100/300 with a 300 big blind ante when the action resumes. In other words, new players will start off with at least 100 big blinds if they join the action during Level 4 or Level 5.…
Level 3: 100/200 (200) Entries: 257/274 Stefan Fabian opened from early position and was called by Vladan Blagojevic before Cameron Sinclair three-bet to 1,500 from the small blind. Nikodem Dubiel cold-called from the big blind before Fabian jacked it up with a four-bet to 7,300. Blagojevic called before Sinclair went into the tank. Eventually, both…
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…
The Battle of Malta Autumn edition is by far the biggest poker event of the year on Malta’s busy poker calendar. The demand to play in it is huge and this has been evidenced in the massive turnouts there have been for the satellites that have taken place so far. Today’s opening satellite will likely…
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…