500 Entries Already!
Level 1: 100/100 Entries: 500/502 Day 1d is rocking the house with already more than 500 entries in the opening moments. Already, two players lost their stacks including Poland’s Arkadiusz Sieracki and Italy’s Prospero Trovato.
Shuffle Up and Deal
Level 1: 100/100 Entries: 411/411 The opening ceremony has been concluded with a round of applause for all of the players. Cards are now in the air with more than 400 entries already in the field. Best of luck to all of the players.
Welcome to Saturday at the Battle of Malta
Today is set to be a special day as not only do we expect the largest opening flight of the Main Event in Day 1d but also today will boast a turbo Day 1e this evening. Day 1d kicks off at 1 p.m. will follow the same structure as the first three opening flights with…
End-of-Day 1c Chip Counts
Day 1c was a banner field attracting a whopping 870 entries with 134 players surviving with a min-cash into Sunday’s Day 2. Check out all of the final chip counts from Day 1c below: Player Chips Luigi Caputo 458,000 Keito Kaljulaid 455,000 Davide Ferrone 442,000 Flavio Esteves 410,500 Samuel Goodman 410,500 Sandro Fortunato 405,000 Jmax…
Francesco Biribao Bubbles Day 1c
Level 17: 3,000/6,000 (6,000) Entries: 134/870 It was the cooler of all coolers to end Day 1c. Francesco Biribao raised nearly all his stack from the middle before button Matthias De Meulder shoved to put Biribao all in. Biribao snapped it off, but they had to wait for the rest of the tables to finish.…
Break Chips on the Day 1c Bubble
Level 17: 3,000/6,000 (6,000) Entries: 135/870 They are on the bubble as Level 17 begins after the break with 135 players left. They’ll bag up for the night after the next elimination. Name Chips BB Luigi Caputo 445,000 74 Theodoros Konstantinidis 440,000 73 Davide Ferrone 430,000 72 Sandro Fortunato 400,000 67 Flavio Esteves 380,000 63…
Spin Up on Table 18!
Level 16: 2,500/5,000 (5,000) Entries: 142/870 They are nearing the end of Day 1c with about 8 players to go until they bag up for the night, but the Cinderella story reported earlier by my partner in crime, Jason Glatzer, continues as the night winds down. To recall, Estonian Marco Keskel had 900 chips earlier…
Pyzara Over 300k
Level 15: 2,000/4,000 (4,000) Entries: 152/870 Table big stack Kacper Pyzara raised early to 8,000 and only big blind Ioannis Poulios called to the flop of . Poulios check-called for 4,000 and hit the turn. Poulios checked again and Pyzara fired a roughly pot-sized bet of 30k, which was enough to get Poulios off his…
Colin Takes a Big One
Level 15: 2,000/4,000 (4,000) Entries: 167/870 Florent Colin raised to 8,500 from the cutoff, and button Robert Berglund made it 23k to go. Colin called to flop where he check-raised from 15k to 35k. Berglund tanked for a bit but tossed in the call. The turn was and Colin hit the tank for a couple…