We counted some more chips during the break. Currently, Cyril Vieira & Lior Sahar lead the pack. Name Chips Big Blinds Table Seat Cyril Vieira 405,000 135 3 5 Lior Sahar 390,000 130 23 7 Albert Keuftedjian 340,000 113 25 3 Ugo Gasparini 310,000 103 2 9 Christos Paparistodemou 310,000 103 14 9 Michal Anzulewicz…
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…
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 (2,000) Entries: 213/799 Some hands just play themselves without much strategy and thinking. One of those hands is aces versus kings. One of those hands we just witnessed over at Table 10. It began with Alaa Ganem raising and Hassan Nima reraising. Gaspare Sposato was caught in the middle and caught the…
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…
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…
Level 12: 1,000/1,500 (1,500) Entries: 235/799 With the blinds ever increasing, the action becomes faster and faster and we are seeing all-ins virtually every minute. Yigal Shafian just eliminated his countryman Assaf Cabra in one of those all-ins. Both had all their chips in the middle before the flop with Assaf Cabra being minimally ahead…
Level 12: 1,000/1,500 (1,500) Entries: 252/799 Watching poker and playing poker doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive. Over at Table 13, Marco Labate spent most of the day watching poker episodes on his phone. We just witnessed him increase his stack significantly while watching other people play poker on his phone. We arrived at his…
Level 11: 600/1,200 (1,200) Entries: 258/799 Vitalii Seman fired out for 16,500 into a pot of 31,000 with the on the board after the river. Andrea La Monica jammed for 55,600 and Seman went into the tank for around five minutes until La Monica called the clock. The floor promptly came and the clock started…
The most important people in the casino are the dealers. Without a skilled and motivated team of dealers, no cash game and no tournament can run. Patrisha Rimfire met up with Marcello Caloro. He’s the senior Dealer Coordinator here at the Battle of Malta and shares his insights into running successful poker tournaments. Learn how…
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…