Back in the 1970s and early 1980s this was the chant in the school playground when two kids started hitting each other. A crowd would form a circle and spur them on, until a janitor or teacher inevitably broke it up. These fights were sometimes quite fierce and blood was drawn on some occasions. But…
Table Seat Name Country Chips Big Blinds 1 1 Alkan Aydingoez Germany 270,000 9 1 2 Leonardo Romeo Italy 360,000 12 1 3 Vincenzo Lembo Italy 315,000 11 1 4 Longmao Fan China 1,775,000 59 1 5 Alexandru Boboc Romania 545,000 18 1 6 Alberto Cucca Italy 1,075,000 36 1 7 Mateo Ciglar Croatia 805,000…
Day 2 of the Main Event witnessed the field narrowed down to just 196 hopefuls, each locking up at least €2,900 after laddering up several payouts. Angelos Michael from Cyprus leads the way with 4,760,000, but there are still three more days of player in an international affair with the top ten players hailing from…
Day 2 has concluded; it’s been a marathon. Thanks to everyone who’s been tuning into today’s live blog, we’ll see you tomorrow. Chip counts will be uploaded ASAP.
Level 21: 10,000/25,000 (25,000) Entries: 211/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Estonia’s Herli Olop was kind enough to share a hand with the live coverage team. Said Estonian was seated in the Big Blind, and was faced with a 450,000 shove from “Mr. X” UTG. Olop made the call, and the players revealed their holdings. Mr. X…
Level 21: 10,000/25,000 (25,000) Entries: 242/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Joakim Berg fancied an opening to 50,000 from the Hi-jack. Gianluca Cabitza made the call from the Button, and Cristian-Marius Campan also joined the fun from the Small Blind. After an initial check from Campan on the flop, Berg fired a 75,000 continuation bet. Cabitza made…
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 (20,000) Entries: 280/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Seated UTG, Calin Ciolte opened to 40,000. Danijel Tatarovic three-bet to 115,000 from UTG+2, and Ciolte made the call. First to act, Ciolte checked the flop, and Tatarovic bet 75,000. Without much hesitation, Ciolte made it 175,000 to go. Tatarovic moved all in for 540,000, and…
It’s time for me to go home, otherwise I won’t wake up in time to write the story of Sunday at the Battle of Malta article, which will be posted tomorrow morning. Just before I go, a quick update on our former BOM Champions. There were four in the last time we reported on their…
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 (20,000) Entries: 324/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 The remaining players are now on the second break of the day. I managed to identify some big stacks prior to Level 20. Player Chips Big Blinds Angelos Michael 3,500,000 175 Jan Gompers 3,400,000 170 Mike Alonso 2,500,000 125 Nico Deperna 2,400,000 120 Ruggero Magri 2,000,000…
They’re still falling at a pretty fast rate in the Main Event, with another hundred poker souls departing, but not empty handed. Here are the latest players to have their status changed to “eliminated.” There were actually five former Battle of Malta Main Event winners still in when we reported that there were four, our…