Numbers are now climbing in Day 1g of the Main Event with 750 players now participating by the midpoint of the first level of the day. Last year, this same fight ended up with 1759 entries and whether we match that number today remains to be seen, but there are certainly going to be many…
Yesterday Battle of Malta host Glenn Brown visited the ACR booth, supping a limoncello and shooting the breeze with some of online site’s sponsored pros, including Jon Pardy and Jeff Boski. Several of their team are also here at the Battle of Malta this year, including Eboney Kenney and Ana Marquez. Also here with ACR…
The cards are now in the air for Day 1g of the 2026 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition Main Event. There were 600 players seated when the first hand was dealt and the total number of entries has now surpassed 3,000.
The Mystery Siege of Malta played until 5am, by which point just five players remained. The overnight chip leader is Hans Werge, on 8.01m, who takes a lead of almost 3m into the final day. These are the chip counts of the famous five, who will resume play today at xpm. There’s €45,305 up top…
Play hasn’t even begun and already the Eden Arena is buzzing with anticipation. The staff all came in a little early today for the traditional team photo. The Main Event is 30 minutes away from the start of Day 1g, which by all accounts is going to take up the vast majority of the 130+…
The final Main Event satellite has been running for almost 45-minutes now and there are over 500 players taking part so far, chancing their luck at one final opportunity to get into the Main Event for less than the €600 buy-in. We’re now hoping to resolve the issues with PokerLens, which crashed last night and…
A new attendance record has been set for the Mystery Siege of Malta, with a total of 1,313 entries in the €450 Mystery Bounty Event. The final starting flight saw 647 players take their seat for the morning starting final flight of the event, resulting in a total prize pool of over half a million…
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 (10,000) Entries: 138/923 Some technical issues made the last hour of Day 1b hard to track properly; apologize for the blog going idle for a while. That being said, the bubble just burst, sending 138 players on to Day 2. Soft hand-by-hand was introduced with 140 players remaining. There were perhaps seven…
Level 16: 4,000/8,000 (8,000) Entries: 158/923 Alessandro Furneri moved all in UTG for 85,000. Seated right next to him, Krzysztof Iszczuk re-shoved from UTG+1 for perhaps 280,000. There were no other takers. Alessandro Furneri: Krzysztof Iszczuk: An unfortunate scenario for Furneri, who didn’t crack aces as the board spelled out . Krzysztof Iszczuk: 365,000 Alessandro…
Level 15: 3,000/6,000 (6,000) Entries: 271/923 My good friend Robin Wikemar told me he played what probably is the craziest hand of his live poker tournament career. He explained what went down, and one has to admit, it is quite astonishing. His unknown opponent – let’s say “Mr. X” – opened to 10,000 (keep in…