First Pot of the Day to Ghassemlou

Level 38:  300,000/600,000 (600,000) Entries: 9/5,799 The day kicked off with Ivaylo Eftimov opening the pot to 1,300,000 with from the early position and getting a call from Shervin Ghassemlou in the big blind holding . A flop of gave both players top pair with Ghassemlou being ahead with an ace kicker. He checked-called the…

Meet the BOM November Nine

It’s the final table of the Battle of Malta Main Event Autumn Edition and after 5,790 eliminations, just nine players remain. It’s November and there are nine of them left, it would be rude not call them the November Nine. The WSOP abandoned the concept that created the original November Nine name, which was to…

Cards Are Now in the Air!

Play has now begun on the final table. Before play started, the players all agreed to an adjusted prize pool, which was proposed by the tournament director after feedback at the end of Tuesday’s play in the Main Event. This is what they are now playing for: Position Prize 1 €255,800 2 €160,800 3 €115,800…

Vasileios Zisis Regains Chip Lead

Play is now resuming in the main event and stacks of the remaining players have been counted and verified. These are the chip counts of the final ten. Position Player Name Country Chips Big Blinds 1 Vasileios Zisis Greek 38,300,000 64 2 Alessandro Siena Italian 36,275,000 60 3 Shervin Ghassemlou English 28,650,000 48 4 Kyriakos…

BOM Main Event Day 4 Photos

Maruen Zormati Alexandru Farcasanu Alexandru Farcasanu Hendrik Blokdijk Marco Arcodia, out in 10th Niccolo’ Cadoni Marco Arcodia Vasileios Zisis Miguel Branco Cristian Mihu Cristian Mihu Alessio Vanni Anthony Ouillon Anthony Ouillon Robert Shearing Alessandro Siena Cosme Gomez Martinez Clement Kerrien Psaquale Gregorio Stephen Dallaire Alessandro Siena Alessandro Siena Davide Iannaco Kyriakos Papadopoulos Kyriakos Papadopoulos Christou…

Play Slowing Down with 10 Left

Level 38: 300,000/600,000 (600,000) Entries: 10/5,799 Apologies for the lack of updates. Recently things have been moving quite slowly in the Main Event. There have been a few all-ins recently, but in all cases, the short stack has either doubled up or split the pot. In other news has recently been confirmed that we will…