The Sviten was a quiet, but hard fought event which paid winner takes all, as there were just six entries. The last two decided to do an informal deal and restructure the prize pool to ensure there was something for second place, but despite this they took it seriously, playing on to determine the winner,…
DetailsThe €330 Sviten Special has reached its heads-up action. Karol Olszewski and Soner Vanelderen were heads-up for a title when they agreed to an informal heads-up deal. Despite the money already agreed upon outside of the €200 difference between first and second places, the duo continued to battle on for at least 30 minutes and…
DetailsThe first event to reach its natural conclusion was the €150 White Night. It was won by Dutch player Danny Verheij, who defeated Italian Vicenzo Scarpitti after an intense but amicable heads up battle to claim the €2,100 first prize. White Knight Result Buy-In: €150 Entries: 58 Prizepool: €7,163 Pos Player Name Prize 1 Danny…
DetailsPlayers are on their third break of the day. Blinds will increase to 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 big blind ante when the action resumes in 20 minutes.
Level 12: 1,000/1,500 (1,500) Entries: 142/362 Denmark’s Michael Kim Falcon was among the chip leaders at the dinner break and things have gone swimmingly since then as he is up to 470,000 in chips, which appears to be the largest in the room without doing a full audit. He just recently took a small pot…
DetailsLevel 12: 1,000/1,500 (1,500) Entries: 157/362 Adrian Cazacu was among the early chip leaders at the beginning of the day but was down to 18,000 when he jammed with fours. Michal Kral three-bet shoved for 108,000 with tens from a couple of seats over before Jan Oeye called off his stack of slightly less than…
DetailsThe €300 Day 1b opening flight of the Main Event is on its first break after six blind levels of 20 minutes each. This means there are four more levels of late registration for players to get a fresh stack of 20,000 (half the 40,000 in the €600 buy-in flights) in the €300 buy-in opening…
DetailsThe final event of the day is now in play with 21 players now taking part. This tournament really is a fast one as it has just ten minutes for every blind level. A quick glance at the player list reveals that at present, I don’t recognize any of the participants. However there is a…
DetailsLevel 11: 600/1,200 (1,200) Entries: 169/362 Andreas Katsanis was sitting on a healthy stack when he fired out a pot-sized bet of 21,000 with the on the board. Josef Gulas tanked for more than a minute before he opted to call. Katsanis turned over he and his trips with an ace-nine kicker were not good…
DetailsIt’s not over yet, but it’s shaping up to be a busy first day at the Battle of Malta Autumn Edition 2024. So far just one of the day’s nine events has concluded. Seven others are still in play and there is one tournament yet to start, the €150 (€130+€20) No Limit Hold’em Hyperturbo, which…
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