Level 31: 100,000/250,000 (250,000) Entries : 16/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Action folded all the way to Leonidas Georgopoulos, who clicked it to 500,000 from the Button. Seated in the Small Blind, Candido Cappiello raised to 1,750,000. Georgopoulos wasn’t imtimidated, and he four-bet to 5,600,000. After a minute’s worth of consideration, Cappiello forced his opponent all…
Level 31: 100,000/250,000 (250,000) Entries : 17/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 After an initial min-raise to 500,000 from Giuseppe Ciancio from the Cut-off, Jorge Geraldes made the call from the Small Blind. “Now’s my chance,” Piotr Przybylski must’ve thought, as he moved all in for 3,150,000. Ciancio made the call, before Geraldes mucked. Piotr Przybylski: Giuseppe…
Level 31: 100,000/250,000 (250,000) Entries : 19/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Leonardo Romeo opened to 550,000 from the Hi-jack. Davis Modans made the call from the Cut-off, and and former champion Gabriele Re also joined the party from the Big Blind. Action was checked to Modans on the flop, and he fired a 700,000 bet. Re…
The majority of the Battle of Malta tournaments have been held in the Eden Arena, but this is the last day that we will be here. For tomorrow’s final table, the action will take place downstairs, in the conference centre on the level below, where satellites were held. The rig is being set up for…
Level 31: 100,000/250,000 (250,000) Entries : 20/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Seated in the Lo-jack, Andro Scarpa min-raised to 500,000. When action came around to Killian O’Brien, he made it 1,200,000 from the Button. Scarpa then elected to move all in for 6,125,000, and O’Brien made the call. Andro Scarpa: Killian O’Brien: O’Brien was trailing, and…
The High Roller has now reached its final tables and the nine remaining players have gone for a short break before it begins. Their stacks have been counted and verified and the chip counts going into the final table can now be revealed. Dimitrios Amplianitis, the unofficial “Player of the Series” with two victories under…
Level 31: 100,000/250,000 (250,000) Entries : 20/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Rafal Lubczynski min-raised to 500,000 UTG. Action folded all the way to Peter Kovacs in the Big Blind. Kovacs counted his 2,700,000, then announced all-in. Lubczynski made the call fairly quickly. Peter Kovacs: Rafal Lubczynski: It was a classic coinflip scenario, and the pocket pair…
Level 31: 100,000/250,000 (250,000) Entries : 22/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 The players have just returned from their second break of the day. Its getting tight at the top between Daskalis and Lubczynski. Pos Player Name Chips Big Blinds 1 Ioannis Daskalis 27.72M 111 2 Rafal Lubczynski 26.32M 105 3 Davis Modans 20.47M 82 4 Veljko…
Level 30: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries : 24/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Jan Gompers opened to 400,000 from the Hi-jack. Leonardo Romeo fancied a call from the Button, before big-stacked Davis Modans decided to pump it up to 2,300,000 from the Small Blind. Gompers made the call, before Romeo decided to let his hand go. First to…
Level 30: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries : 24/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 On a flop of and facing a bet of 350,000 from Jan Gompers, Charalampos Siakaras pushed all-in for just over 3m. His German opponent asked for a count, but Siakaras misheard it as a call and exposed his hand . After the inevitable initial confusion,…