The final opening flight is in the books and it attracted another 849 runners to bring the grand total up to 5,799 smashing all records on the island and perhaps throughout all of Europe for this buy-in range. The prize pool reached a whopping €2,578,172 prize pool, also a new record for the Battle of Malta and creating one of the largest events in all of Europe in 2024.
The prize pool will be announced shortly after the start of play at 10 p.m. We will share on the blog if we get a sneak peak but can at least share that all 762 Day 2 qualifiers, including 126 on the final opening flight that just ended, earned at least an €800 min-cash and there will be six-figure digit prizes on the line.
Anthony Ouillon will head into Day 2 in a couple of hours €10,000 richer thanks to bagging the overall Day 1i chip lead with 1,077,000 in chips. Michael Howard may not be a chip millionaire with 999,000 but he also earned a healthy €5,000 bonus for the second most chips on Day 1i while Domenico Candido earned €3,000 for bagging up the third place stack of 879,000 in chips.
Day 2 will start at the earliest point the opening flights have finished with blinds at 4,000/8,000 along with an 8,000 big blind ante. It won’t be a long and tiring day even for those 126 souls that qualified through Day 1i as just four blind levels of one hour each are planned with blinds increasing to 75 minutes in length for Day 3.
Check out the full Day 1i chip counts below and we will post the starting Day 2 chip counts and the seat draw in approximately 30 minutes.
Player | Chips | Big Blinds |
Anthony Ouillon | 1,077,000 | 135 |
Michael Howard | 999,000 | 125 |
Domenico Candido | 879,000 | 110 |
Hendrik Blokdijk | 808,000 | 101 |
Michal Grzegorz Procner | 655,000 | 82 |
Adrien Di Grande | 652,000 | 82 |
Richard Msall | 632,000 | 79 |
Paul Michael Lyons | 631,000 | 79 |
Salvatore Merendino | 619,000 | 77 |
Michele Ditarano | 577,000 | 72 |
Boban Stevanovic | 539,000 | 67 |
Shaun Decesare | 535,000 | 67 |
Massimo Vullo | 525,000 | 66 |
Dan Sfarlea | 522,000 | 65 |
Joshua Norvock | 503,000 | 63 |
Francesco Blasio | 501,000 | 63 |
Emmanouil Chalkiotis | 498,000 | 62 |
Andrea Geraci | 471,000 | 59 |
Angelo Onorato | 466,000 | 58 |
Luca Sebastiani | 462,000 | 58 |
Ionut Arvatu | 440,000 | 55 |
Simon Davidson | 439,000 | 55 |
Simon Hesserud Persson | 437,000 | 55 |
Asiil Maye | 437,000 | 55 |
Patrik Zidek | 436,000 | 55 |
Frankie Chan | 422,000 | 53 |
Rakesh Attuluri | 410,000 | 51 |
Stephen Dallaire | 391,000 | 49 |
Milan Dabic | 365,000 | 46 |
Maurizio Saieva | 361,000 | 45 |
Phedonas Phinicarides | 341,000 | 43 |
Tomasz Kardas | 338,000 | 42 |
Palina Mankevich | 338,000 | 42 |
Alexandru Farcasanu | 336,000 | 42 |
Laszlo Papai | 336,000 | 42 |
Thomas Bolton | 333,000 | 42 |
Ioannis Triantafyllakis | 333,000 | 42 |
Sebastian Kos | 330,000 | 41 |
Carmelo Villafranca | 330,000 | 41 |
Juan Farre | 328,000 | 41 |
Alessio Vanni | 294,000 | 37 |
Stevan Gvozdenovic | 281,000 | 35 |
Lukas Benkovic | 276,000 | 35 |
Giuseppe Gallo | 269,000 | 34 |
Ivan Kuziv | 269,000 | 34 |
Cristian Mihu | 268,000 | 34 |
Mark Wates | 263,000 | 33 |
Dylan Petrecca | 257,000 | 32 |
Salvatore Capra | 253,000 | 32 |
Andrew Fleming | 250,000 | 31 |
Cristiano Gatti | 250,000 | 31 |
Luca Neri | 247,000 | 31 |
Minh-Ho Tran | 247,000 | 31 |
Johan Purbe | 241,000 | 30 |
Fotios Ntamaris | 236,000 | 30 |
Emanuele Cassibba | 232,000 | 29 |
Tomislav Savov | 228,000 | 29 |
Giuseppe Verderico | 228,000 | 29 |
Paul Fisher | 227,000 | 28 |
Martin Petkov | 224,000 | 28 |
Stefano Boi | 222,000 | 28 |
John Adderley | 215,000 | 27 |
Adrien Bodenheimer | 213,000 | 27 |
Tomasz Adamus | 212,000 | 27 |
Itay Barak | 211,000 | 26 |
George Demetriou | 211,000 | 26 |
Dimitrios Stavaris | 210,000 | 26 |
Yotam Yoffe | 205,000 | 26 |
Gregory Campbell | 196,000 | 25 |
Nour Dakhchoune | 196,000 | 25 |
Max Wielander | 195,000 | 24 |
Fabiano Montanaro | 194,000 | 24 |
Danilo Ialacqua | 192,000 | 24 |
Benedikt Brandl | 191,000 | 24 |
Giovanni Logarzo | 191,000 | 24 |
Gianfranco Picone | 189,000 | 24 |
Nikolaos Vouldis | 188,000 | 24 |
Erik Lindqwist | 187,000 | 23 |
Cristoforo Pascale | 184,000 | 23 |
Clement Kerrien | 180,000 | 23 |
Danas Dambrauskas | 176,000 | 22 |
Jason Shellum | 173,000 | 22 |
Michael Yeo | 168,000 | 21 |
Demos Demosthenous | 166,000 | 21 |
Nicolai Ejstrud | 166,000 | 21 |
Eljano Hysaj | 164,000 | 21 |
Todor Petkov | 164,000 | 21 |
Marko Jovanovic | 163,000 | 20 |
Paul-Calin Ciaca | 160,000 | 20 |
Ioannis Vlassis | 160,000 | 20 |
Valerio Mascolo | 158,000 | 20 |
Luigi Dell’utri | 152,000 | 19 |
Valerie Bennet | 144,000 | 18 |
Davide Iannaco | 141,000 | 18 |
Tiziano Di Romualdo | 140,000 | 18 |
Maurizio Fisicaro | 138,000 | 17 |
Panagiotis Papastefanou | 136,000 | 17 |
Przemyslaw Drab | 133,000 | 17 |
Madis Ormisson | 132,000 | 17 |
Fernando Amorelli | 121,000 | 15 |
Patrick Wulf | 121,000 | 15 |
Giuseppe D’agnese | 112,000 | 14 |
Carlo Jia Jie Vitti | 111,000 | 14 |
Sascha Manns | 100,000 | 13 |
Stefano Stefanacci | 100,000 | 13 |
Vasileios Zervas | 98,000 | 12 |
Antonios Georgiou | 97,000 | 12 |
Vincenzo Scarpitti | 90,000 | 11 |
Terry Woods | 85,000 | 11 |
Stig Rune Bjornli | 82,000 | 10 |
Riccardo Saitta | 80,000 | 10 |
Piersante Ferri | 75,000 | 9 |
Zygintas Stasiulevicius | 74,000 | 9 |
Alfredo Porcino | 70,000 | 9 |
Dmitri Dudakov | 69,000 | 9 |
Silvio Maggi | 68,000 | 9 |
Danilo Scevola | 66,000 | 8 |
Angelo Sidoti | 61,000 | 8 |
Angelo Pediglieri | 59,000 | 7 |
Halil Gecaj | 56,000 | 7 |
Mauro Brecevic | 38,000 | 5 |
Andrew Murphy | 34,000 | 4 |
Andrea D’ambrogo | 27,000 | 3 |
Wilhelm Isaak | 16,000 | 2 |
Ulf Graehs | 13,000 | 2 |
Mimikopoulos Konstantinos | 12,000 | 2 |
Registration has now closed for the final starting day of the Battle of Malta Autumn Edition and the with 849 entries in the last chance Day 1i turbo flight, the total number of entries is a record setting 5,799 (to be confirmed). The €2,578,172 prize pool is also a new record for the event. The figures are now being checked and verified and will be confirmed when payouts are announced.
The final starting day will continue until 127 players remain. Full blog coverage will resume for the start of Day 2 at 10pm this evening.
The final starting day of the Battle of Malta Autumn Edition is well underway and players are on their the first break of the day. The flight is a full price one (€600) and is being run on a 20-minute clock. They have just begun level seven and there are four levels left for late entrants to join the flight. The latest time it is possible to enter will be just before 2pm.
So far there have been 676 entries in the flight, which brings the total number of entrants up to over 5,600 and the prize pool is now just a few players shy of €2.5m
Saturday 2nd November at Casino Malta & the Eden Arena at the Intercontinental Hotel was the biggest single day ever in Battle of Malta’s 12 year history!
With 1,759 entries Day 1g of the Battle of Malta Autumn Edition surpassed the previous record of 1,752, which has stood since 2019. Not only was it the biggest single starting day, but the record for the total number of entries in the event also fell, with two starting flights left to play.
During the half-price Day 1h, which began at 8pm, another milestone was reached, 5,000 entries in the Main Event. It’s not impossible that the final total could reach 6,000 entries during the final turbo structured starting day on Sunday morning. It started at 10am with over 300 players registered by the start of play.
The popularity of the Main Event flights on Saturday did have some downside however, as most of the day’s scheduled side events had to be scrapped due to all available space being utilized for the Main Event. The Pot Limit Omaha and the morning satellite were the only other events that started on Saturday, plus the final day of the Winamax 6-Max.
Iason Filipidis Bags Chip Lead on Bumper Day1g
By the time play ended on Day 1g of the Battle of Malta Main Event, 262 players remained, all progressing to Day 2, which begins at 8pm on Sunday. The chip leader from the flight is Iason Filipidis from Greece, who is also the overall chip leader, at this stage of the tournament. The Greek player’s 1,398,000 chip mountain is more than 250,000 in front of Humberto Galindo, who posted the largest stack from Day 1a.
Filipidis secured the €10,000 high stack bonus for his chip building efforts. Alexander Luciani claimed €5,000 for posting the second biggest stack of the flight with 1,045,000. He is one of only four players to have bagged up a seven figure chip stack from the starting days that have been completed so far.
The third biggest stack of the day was constructed by Konstantin Faerber, whose 974,000 was good enough for the €3,000 bonus prize.
Petr Kubenka Scoops Day1h Bonus Prize
Day 1h was the final half price starting day of the Main Event and was marginally the largest of the four that took place. There were 418 entries, one more than the 417 who entered Friday’s half price flight. Just 32 of the starters made it to the end of the day, with Peter Kubenka’s 668,000 being good enough for him to claim the €5,000 big stack bonus. Giampiero Arena’s 536,000 was good for the €2,000 second prize.
Daniel Heredi Ships Winamax 6-Max
The final day of the slow structured Winamax 6-Max took place on Saturday, with 28 players returning for a shot at the €13,318 first prize. It was won by Hungarian Daniel Heredi, who is a regular visitors to the Battle of Malta, having previously made a final table of the Mystery Siege in 2022. He’s an experienced player who has won two WSOPC ring events and this victory takes his lifetime winnings to close to $300,000.
Pot Limit Omaha won by Andreas Vlachos
The one side event that managed to get going was the €330 PLO, which was initially soft capped at 40 players, but ended up with 61 entries, creating a prize pool more than three times bigger than the €5,000 guarantee. It was won by Andreas Vlachos for €5,090. This was the last of the three Pot Limit Omaha tournaments taking place at the series, but there are still 8-Game and H.O.R.S.E events on the schedule.
Sunday’s Schedule of Play
The final Main Event Day 1 flight began at 10am, with a full price (€600) buy-in and a turbo structure. It runs on a 20 minute clock and late registration will close at roughly 1.50pm. This is the final chance for players to join the 636 players who have already secured their passage into Day 2, which begins at 8pm this evening.
There are also several side events scheduled today and unlike the last few days, there should be no reasons for any to be cancelled this time. However, there has been a small adjustment to the schedule, as the start time for the satellite to the Quigioco High Roller has been pushed back by one hour and will now start at noon.
Time | Event | Buy-In | Fee | Starting Stack | Levels |
10:00 | TURBO – BOM €1,500,000 GTD Day1* | €530 | €70 | 40K | 20 min |
12:00 | NLH Satellite Accumulator – QUIGIOCO – HIGH ROLLER €300,000 GTD | €110 | €20 | 10K | 20 min |
15:00 | NLH REBET24 | €260 | €40 | 20K | 20 min |
16:00 | 8-Game | €300 | €30 | 30K | 25 min |
17:00 | NLH HIGH ROLLER €300,000 GTD – QUIGIOCO (10 Levels) Day1 | €1,000 | €100 | 50K | 30 min |
18:00 | NLH FULL TILT CATANIA Bounty €70,000 GTD regressive (12 Levels) | €110 + €150 | €40 | 30K | 25 min |
20:00 | BOM Day2 €1,500,000 GTD | – | – | – | 60 min |
21:00 | NLH Satellite Accumulator – QUIGIOCO – HIGH ROLLER €300,000 GTD | €110 | €20 | 10K | 20 min |
22:00 | NLH HYPERTURBO | €130 | €20 | 20K | 10 min |
Day 1h was the largest of the half-priced opening flights, with 422 entries and 32 players surviving. This flight also set the new Battle of Malta record, and with players entering early into Day 1i, it also passed 5,000 total entries for the Battle of Malta Main Event for the first time.
Petr Kubenka led the way after bagging 668,000 from his 20,000 starting stack to earn the €5,000 chip leader bonus, while Giampiero Arena earned €2,000 for bagging the second-place stack of 536,000.
Check out the full chip counts from Day 1h below:
Name | Chips |
Petr Kubenka | 668,000 |
Giampiero Arena | 536,000 |
Domenico De Francesco | 498,000 |
Christian Kempf | 494,000 |
Cosmin-Ionut Nica | 492,000 |
Manuel Persico | 470,000 |
Wojciech Radomski | 411,000 |
Giuseppe Zuccarello | 370,000 |
Tomi Arponen | 352,000 |
Loris Fabbri | 335,000 |
Jennifer Jordi | 328,000 |
Davor Mudric | 316,000 |
Malte Harff | 289,000 |
Jakub Ojrzynski | 271,000 |
Alfio Morello | 266,000 |
Mohamed Bouzgarrou | 256,000 |
Aristeidis Giannatos | 247,000 |
Rain Moelderkivi | 244,000 |
Romperto Koskidinis | 229,000 |
Daniel Stancer | 226,000 |
Robert Shearing | 213,000 |
Daniele Staropoli | 190,000 |
Santiago Gonzalez | 160,000 |
Fabio Prinari | 150,000 |
Fabio Motta | 144,000 |
Gabriella Carollo | 130,000 |
Abraham Berkovitch | 128,000 |
Antonio Chemi | 117,000 |
Michele Casaburi | 96,000 |
Giuseppe Bossa | 84,000 |
Stavros Tsakas | 68,000 |
Dimitrios Karagkounis | 59,000 |
It was a record-breaking day at the 2024 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition Main Event with Day 1g attracting 1,759 entries to eclipse the old record of 1,752 entries established before the pandemic on Day 1d of the 2019 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition Main Event won by Serghi Lisii after he defeated Steven “The Viking” van Zadelhoff heads-up.
Iason Filippidis made the most of the day as he led the 262 Day 1g survivors and bagged the overall chip lead after ending the day with 1,398,000 in chips. This earned him a whopping €10,000 bonus for the day, while chip millionaire Alexander Luciani earned €5,000 for his second-place performance with 1,045,000, and Konstantin Faeber earned a €3,000 bonus for bagging the third-place stack of 974,000.
Check out the full chip counts below of Day 1g:
Name | Chips |
Iason Filippidis | 1,398,000 |
Alexander Luciani | 1,045,000 |
Konstantin Faerber | 974,000 |
Yarin Matan | 927,000 |
Enrico Perra | 843,000 |
Luka Lerga | 832,000 |
Marc Meden | 815,000 |
Manuel Licata | 787,000 |
Janos Pergel | 720,000 |
Alexandros Papadopulos | 715,000 |
Ashley Scott | 694,000 |
Carl Frejd | 692,000 |
Berend Hooijer | 667,000 |
Georgian Georgescu | 633,000 |
Marek Ohnisko | 606,000 |
Stefan Gheorghe | 602,000 |
Lucia Antunes | 569,000 |
Domenico Ruggero | 561,000 |
Panagiotis Petrou | 545,000 |
Pawel Wakuluk | 537,000 |
Gabriele Pischedda | 533,000 |
Darko Svesko | 533,000 |
Adrian Cazacu | 530,000 |
Sergio Somma | 526,000 |
Zhenghao Zhou | 523,000 |
Jose Guerrero | 522,000 |
Vincent Smith | 521,000 |
Bartolomeo Selvaggi | 519,000 |
John Sande | 504,000 |
Kajetan Renke | 487,000 |
Dalibor Mijic | 472,000 |
Kestutis Jungevicius | 468,000 |
Kevin Campbell | 462,000 |
Ioannios Logothetis | 462,000 |
Antonio Mirabile | 462,000 |
Vincenzo Ruggiero | 460,000 |
Hussein Abdulsamad | 455,000 |
Thom Giesberts | 453,000 |
Niko Petro | 451,000 |
Francesco Vitale | 443,000 |
Jozsef Harsing | 442,000 |
Francesco Natale | 436,000 |
Jussi Julkunen | 435,000 |
Konstantinos Karkanidis | 434,000 |
Alfonso Amendola | 430,000 |
Florian Dubrawski | 427,000 |
Dario Marinelli | 427,000 |
Timothee Rey | 406,000 |
Marcus Borg | 402,000 |
Marco Arcodia | 387,000 |
Gaetano Cristaldi | 384,000 |
Lorenzo Arduini | 376,000 |
Dalibor Mijolovic | 376,000 |
Dongyue Su | 374,000 |
Emmanouil Zografakis | 371,000 |
Alessio Scarano | 368,000 |
Gustav Andersson | 366,000 |
Gianluca Fichera | 365,000 |
Philip Butt | 357,000 |
Maurizio Cristaldi | 357,000 |
Andreas Brendholt | 354,000 |
Rinaldo Filho | 352,000 |
Massimo Arigo’ | 351,000 |
Parminder Kandola | 351,000 |
Mirko Bellavia | 349,000 |
Dushko Bogoevski | 348,000 |
Aleksandar Sunjevaric | 348,000 |
Cristian-Ilie Visoiu | 348,000 |
Ioan Guramulta | 335,000 |
Antonios Kandilas | 333,000 |
Vitalii Shcherba | 328,000 |
Christou Christos | 327,000 |
Alberto Cucca | 327,000 |
Prokopios Mountrichas | 326,000 |
Daniel Prior | 323,000 |
Idan Levy | 320,000 |
Lukas Pazma | 319,000 |
Michail Emmanoyha | 315,000 |
Domenico Pediglieri | 309,000 |
Tomas Dusanek | 308,000 |
Iraklis Manikaros | 308,000 |
Lieven Van Hoof | 303,000 |
Rune Espedal | 301,000 |
Milovan Dinovic | 298,000 |
Domenico Fazio | 295,000 |
Nico Frenn | 294,000 |
Lin Wang | 293,000 |
Dimitrios Anastasakis | 291,000 |
Miguel Abad | 290,000 |
Simone Sintucci | 288,000 |
Silvio Giuliano | 285,000 |
Davide Marabello | 285,000 |
Giandomenico De Chiara | 278,000 |
Francesco D’aspromonte | 272,000 |
Michael Leng | 265,000 |
Claudio Barone | 264,000 |
Marco Leonzio | 264,000 |
Haim Ofer | 264,000 |
Giovanni D’alia | 263,000 |
Sebastian Pabian | 260,000 |
Ilie-Ionut Ababei | 259,000 |
Stefan Fabian | 259,000 |
Vaidas Siriunas | 259,000 |
Marius Agica | 258,000 |
Andrija Vujic | 257,000 |
Igor Milutinovic | 254,000 |
David Urban | 254,000 |
Defrim Alia | 253,000 |
Alkan Aydingoez | 252,000 |
Oliver Kong | 250,000 |
Richard Nicol | 250,000 |
Ilija Savevski | 249,000 |
Antonio Guido | 248,000 |
Giuseppe Liotta | 248,000 |
Flaviano Cammisuli | 246,000 |
Andras Jakabfi | 246,000 |
Salvatore La Vardera | 246,000 |
Sebastiano Di Falco | 245,000 |
Jake Caldwell | 234,000 |
Nuredin Spaho | 231,000 |
Vasileios Tsaknis | 231,000 |
Andrew Salami | 226,000 |
Luke Vinnicombe | 226,000 |
Silvio La Rosa | 225,000 |
Manuel Janas | 224,000 |
Massimo Centola | 222,000 |
Daniel Kugler | 222,000 |
Giulio Serpillo | 222,000 |
Itaco Voto | 222,000 |
Niklas Aahlund | 221,000 |
Giovanni La Rosa | 221,000 |
Athanasios Kechagias | 220,000 |
Rasmus Adjers | 220,000 |
Milan Dondur | 217,000 |
Ioannis Georgopoulos | 217,000 |
Stylianos Kollatos | 217,000 |
Danilo Bartone | 214,000 |
Vladimir Cocis | 214,000 |
Alexandros Tasoulis | 213,000 |
Vittorio Bevilacqua | 210,000 |
Mike Kuehl | 210,000 |
Viktor Waal | 210,000 |
Fraser Mackenzie | 206,000 |
Nunzio Iandolo | 201,000 |
Alfred Holzer | 198,000 |
Francesco Onorato | 197,000 |
Anthony Counsell | 196,000 |
Tayfun Rodoplu | 193,000 |
Michael Koran | 191,000 |
Andrea Taffari | 190,000 |
Phanishsarn Tanapatr | 189,000 |
Karl Cooper | 183,000 |
Josef Gulas | 182,000 |
Daniel Lemanowski | 182,000 |
Emanuele Giufre’ | 180,000 |
Roberto Palmieri | 180,000 |
Davide Campione | 176,000 |
Loris Invito | 176,000 |
Fabrizio Zucca | 176,000 |
Paolo Chiatante | 174,000 |
Alessio Scire’ | 172,000 |
Roberto Barone | 171,000 |
Andrei-Calenciuc | 168,000 |
Dario Ivancevic | 168,000 |
Christos Katis | 168,000 |
Giuseppe Nacci | 167,000 |
Kristian Dahl | 163,000 |
David Hindley | 163,000 |
Gian Marchesi | 163,000 |
Silvio Atzeni | 162,000 |
Samuel Consonni | 162,000 |
Samuel Goodman | 162,000 |
Georgios Bimperis | 161,000 |
Antonello Ferraiuolo | 161,000 |
Nicolaj D’antoni | 159,000 |
Catello Cascone | 156,000 |
Danilo Zaccagnini | 152,000 |
Marios Georgiou | 150,000 |
Nunzio Gambino | 147,000 |
Davide Ingegnere | 147,000 |
Francesco Viscomi | 147,000 |
Jose Matos | 146,000 |
Salvatore Santonocito | 146,000 |
Rosario Saddemi | 145,000 |
Alex Montgomery | 144,000 |
Luca Piccirillo | 144,000 |
Angelo Patane’ | 142,000 |
Javier Moreno | 140,000 |
Carlo Dell’uva | 139,000 |
Stephen Brown | 138,000 |
Jolanda Leverdingen | 138,000 |
Luca Tonarelli | 138,000 |
Alberto De Barberiis | 137,000 |
James Parker | 135,000 |
Hristo Stinov | 134,000 |
Artur Kulanurk | 133,000 |
Charalampos Siakaras | 133,000 |
Patrick Koppitz | 132,000 |
Rakesh Attuluri | 131,000 |
Giuseppe Chiaia | 128,000 |
Giorgio Arato | 127,000 |
Alessio Vichi | 126,000 |
Gianluca Cabitza | 125,000 |
Guglielmo Susini | 124,000 |
Milos Nedeljkovic | 123,000 |
Miguel Aguilar | 122,000 |
Vincenzo Alvino | 121,000 |
Giovanni Bertuccio | 119,000 |
Loukas Kioutsoukis | 118,000 |
Massimo Bruno | 116,000 |
Francesco Mastroianni | 116,000 |
Maciej Szahaj | 116,000 |
Marco Persico | 113,000 |
Iulian Rautu | 113,000 |
Pawel Michalek | 112,000 |
Nicusor Matei | 110,000 |
Claudio Mazza | 110,000 |
Dimitrios Gkatzas | 109,000 |
Johan Vallgren | 108,000 |
Romone Gerald | 106,000 |
Antonio Villadiego | 104,000 |
Salvatore Di Dio | 103,000 |
Salvatore Cundari | 101,000 |
Carmelo Fangano | 101,000 |
Aleksandar Zuberovski | 101,000 |
Adrian Ziemichod | 99,000 |
Giovanni Aleo | 98,000 |
Sergidis Philippos | 97,000 |
Falko Grath | 96,000 |
Natale Chiocchetti | 95,000 |
Emmanouil Fountoulakis | 95,000 |
Joseph Grech | 95,000 |
Dino Valzano | 94,000 |
Cristian-Dinu Cirja | 92,000 |
Bruno Pacelli | 92,000 |
Marc Schulze | 90,000 |
Jay Ronald Yerby | 90,000 |
Anamaria Hemmert | 89,000 |
Nazareno Calvo | 88,000 |
Niccolo’ Cadoni | 87,000 |
Claudio Pucci | 86,000 |
Elia Iudici | 84,000 |
Lino Loddo | 84,000 |
Johan Olsson | 82,000 |
Martin Ganchev | 79,000 |
Emmanouil Kostakis | 79,000 |
Mario Cocco | 77,000 |
Christodoulou Giorgos | 76,000 |
Eirini Kokoni | 72,000 |
Andis Rozentals | 72,000 |
Andreas Avgousti | 69,000 |
Joost Van Waasdijk | 63,000 |
Kenneth Boquera | 62,000 |
Grigoris Kyriazi | 62,000 |
Adrian Ionescu | 53,000 |
Samuel Todisco | 42,000 |
Salvatore Chillemi | 40,000 |
Achilleas Pappas | 39,000 |
Marton Lugosi | 37,000 |
Kapalka Krystian | 34,000 |
Fayez Jarrad | 32,000 |
Frank Robotka | 32,000 |
It’s that time again, when the blogging team is preparing to make a sharp exit before the end of the night. But before we head off into the night, here’s an update on what’s going on here at Casino Malta and the Eden Arena at the Continental Hotel.
Main Event Day 1g
- Level 12: 1,000/1,500 (1,500)
- Entries: 817/1,759
Officially the biggest starting day in Battle of Malta history, it’s now in level 12 and play will continue there are 264 players left.
Main Event Day 1h Half Price
- Level 8: 400/800 (800)
- Entries: 218/408
The final half price starting day is now in level 8 and is shaping up to be the biggest of the new format flights with 385 entries. It needs to get to 418 entries to achieve this feat.
Winamax 6-Max
The Winamax 6-Max is now on the final table and there are still five players left fighting it out for the €13,318 first prize.
Pot Limit Omaha
Tonight’s PLO has 13 players left, having attracted 61 entries and will pay first place €5,090, €90 more than the €5,000 guarantee on the prize pool, which ended up over €17,000.
The 2024 Battle of Malta Main Event just hit its magically 5,000th entry for a new gold standard and the largest in Malta poker history for this level of buy-in. The new record will continue to grow with tomorrow’s turbo Day 1i €600 opening flight expected to attract another 1,000 entries. Today’s Day 1g alone with 1,759 entries would already be a success elsewhere, but the Battle of Malta wanted to break its own record and here we are!
We will update the final chip counts from Day 1g and Day 1i in the morning with play expected to go on for approximately four more hours. Starting tomorrow, we will be posting more hands from the Main Event with the intensity of reporting of hands increasing even more during Day 3 and Day 4.
Meanwhile, a massive congrats to all of the players and staff for making this event a massive success. Jonathan and I both wish all the players (especially our friends, but officially play no favorites) the best of luck to find a bag and advance to the final table on Day 5 on Wednesday.
Level 11: 600/1,200 (1,200)
Entries: 882/1,759
Total Entries: 4,885
Late registration has now closed in the Main Event Day 1g and it has broken the record for the biggest starting day in the history of the Battle of Malta with 1,759 entries. That record has stood until 2019.
Day 1h Half Price
The half price starting day which began at 8pm is now in level 6 and is still accepting registration until the end of level 10. There are already over 340 players registered. Combined, over 2,000 players have so far entered the Main Event today alone.
With one starting day left, the full price turbo leg at 10am on Sunday morning could push into uncharted territory when it comes to the final total number of entries.
It was always a goal to break the pre-pandemic record for the most number of entries in the Battle of Malta Main Event of 4,657 entries established in the autumn of 2019.
Great success has been achieved as the 1,685 entries in the full-priced Day 1g and the 278 entries in the half-priced Day 1h brings the grand total of entries up to 4,741 entries and counting with both flights still open for late registration along with tomorrow’s turbo Day 1h starting at 10 a.m., which also already has nine players ahead of the curve registered.
The prize pool record of €2,258,645 will be the next to crack as it is already close with €2,081,721 already in the prize pool.
As reported earlier, yesterday’s Mystery Siege of Malta was won by Dennis Stemmler, who scooped the €41,200 first prize. What we were not able to report on earlier was who took down the big three bounties, but we have now tracked down that info.
Day 2 started at 9pm, later than planned due to the huge turnout in Day 1d, which pushed the total entries over 1,000 mark. In total 154 players began Day 2 and by the first break at 11pm, over 100 of them had been eliminated.
During the first break players who had taken scalps drew their bounties in a spectacular show compered by Telly Bartolo, with understudy Jason Glatzer taking over as the bonus prize master of ceremonies. None of the big bountied were claimed during the first break, but they all tumbled during the second.
Bounty Payouts
The player who lucked out and drew the largest bounty of €40,000 was Emmanouil Chalkiotis. Ruggero Magri plucked the second biggest of €20,000 while Emiel Kroese took the €10,000 prize.
Here are the payouts from the final table, which include bounty prizes.
Pos | Player Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1 | Dennis Stemmler | €41,200 |
2 | Richard Koppel | €34,100 |
3 | Emiel Kroese | €28,130 |
4 | Daniel Jackson | €12,940 |
5 | Nikola Minovic | €10,750 |
6 | Emmanouil Chalkiotis | €52,460 |
7 | Giuseppe Milone | €10,040 |
8 | Michael Stewart | €7,430 |
9 | Nicolai Ejstrud | €10,020 |
The full payouts list is posted in the results section
It’s get up and stretch time for players in the massive Day 1g opening flight as they set to embark on a 75-minute dinner break. As a point of comedy, it was initially announced as a 75 dinner break. We were instantly curious to see if one player could eat 75 dinners before the floor quickly corrected and said it was a 75-minute dinner break. Perhaps that is for the best as setting new food records can be saved for a different type of festival.
Blinds will continue to be 500/1,000 with a 1,000 big blind ante when the action resumes. Late registration will close after the first level is completed after the dinner break.
Level 9: 500/1,000 (1,000)
Day 1g Entries: 1,005/1,614
Total Entries: 4,514
The Day 1g flight has grown to 1,614 and for the first time we are seeing some tables being broken which is great news for those that want to play in the Day 1h half-priced €300 opening flight of the 2024 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition Main Event.
This brings the total number of entries up to 4,514 or just 143 entries away from the record of 4,657 in the autumn of 2019 when Serghii Lisii defeated Steven “The Viking” Van Zadelhoff. These figures include the 135 entries registered to Day 1h, which will begin momentarily.
Congratulations are in order as the prize pool just exceeded €2 million and will continue to grow with plenty of more players expected to hop into the final moments of late registration of Day 1g, the half-priced Day 1h, and the full-priced, last chance saloon turbo Day 1i taking place tomorrow at 10 a.m. before the start of Day 2 at 8 p.m.
The record €2,258,645 prize pool established just before the pandemic is within reach and seems almost a certainty to be broken tomorrow if not later today.
Good luck to all of the players in this epic Battle of Malta Autumn Edition at Casino Malta and the Eden Arena at the Intercontinental Hotel Malta.
Level 7: 300/600 (600)
Day 1g Entries: 1,099/1,534
Total Entries: 4,367
Michele Pipitone was low on chips but found an amazing spot with the best hand at poker. Pepitone four-bet jammed for 10,900. Mimikopoulos Konstantinos, who opened for 2,000, folded. Meanwhile, Anthony Counsell, who three-bet to 4,000, called.
Michele Pipitone: A♠A♥
Anthony Counsell: A♣5♣
Aces were good for Pipitone to gain some breathing room during the final hand of Level 7 after Counsell bricked the 7♦J♦9♠2♠4♥ runout.
Anthony Counsell – 40,000
Michele Pipitone – 25,000
Jason Glatzer has just been on his nightly walkabout as this is being published. Check out our facebook page for this one his and previous Martin Brundle-esque floor walks. Its 7pm here are the Battle of Malta on this extraordinary day, which looks poised to set a new record for a starting day field in the event’s 12-year history.
Let’s take our own blog based grid walk to see what’s going on at Casino Malta and the Eden Arena at this stage of proceedings on the busiest day of the event.
Battle of Malta Main Event Day 1g
- Current Level: 8
- Players Left/Entries: 1,099/1,536
The massive starting day continues to grow and the single starting day record of 1,752 that was set in 2019 looks like it could be toppled.
Winamax 6-Max Day 2
- Current Level: 22
- Players Left/Entries: 12/186
Twelve players remain in the Winamax sponsored 6-Max event, which will conclude this evening, but not for some time, due to its very slow structure. Simon Persson had assumed the chip lead at the last break, with 874,000, narrowly ahead of Mari Nitteberg on 839,000.
Pot Limit Omaha
- Current Level: 5
- Players Left/Entries: 36/50
Sadly Chris Da Silva’s inaugural PLO tournament didn’t go too well, as he exited in 38th place and has opted not to re-enter. Its up to 50 entries now and is about to go on its first break of the day.
What’s On the Menu for Later?
Unfortunately the two €300 side events that were due to take place at 4pm and 6pm have fallen victim to the success of the Main Event. They have been cancelled and there is a possibility that the satellite and side event that is on tonight’s tournament schedule may go the same way. That won’t be determined until it’s clear how many players have rocked up at the start of Day 1h at 8pm, the last remaining half price flight.
Level 7: 300/600 (600)
Entries: 1,122/1,411
Total Entries: 4,185
Main Event Day 1g is about to go on its second break of the day, which will be another extended 30 minute pause in play. We are now beginning to think that the single flight record of 1,752 entries which was set in 2019 might be under threat today.
We have had tons of firsts during the 2024 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition including a wedding proposal yesterday during the live-streamed Redtooth Poker Malta 52 invitational.
Today, we ran into Chris Da Silva, who has had tons of success on the island of Malta in the past. He already bagged 121,000 in the Main Event two days ago on Day 1c and now will venture into a new game he has never played in the €330 Pot Limit Omaha after learning that the €300 NLH MAS Event was canceled due to the impressive turnout on Day 1g.
Da Silva, who this author considers a friend, arrived to Malta on Wednesday and immediately headed to Casino Malta. He asked this author as soon as he arrived how deep the Main Event was.
“It’s on Level 4,” we shared on Wednesday. Blinds are 100/300 and you start this Main Event with 40,000 instead of 30,000 as it was in the past.”
“That’s too early,” said Da Silva. “I will wait a bit.”
This author thought that he meant he would wait until after the next break when ti was Level 7 with blinds at 300/600 with a 600 big blind ante. However, instead we witnessed Da Silva battling it out already on Level 5 with more chips than he started with.”
He ran that bullet up and shared that he would have 20 big blinds to start Day 2 to make a run. However, we just learned from the tournament director that as of now the action will roll back to 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 big blind ante which would equate to around 15 big blinds. Either way, Da Silva has proved in the past that 15 big blinds can be plenty to work with.
Before the pandemic, Da Silva late-entered the 2019 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition €1,320 High Roller at the very last second with just 15 big blinds. He ran that up to defeat a talented field of 322 players to win the massive €73,070 top prize. This author was busy commentating the final table of the Main Event at that time (which was epic in itself) and has vivid memories of Da Silva taking in his success.
We quickly explained the rules to pot-limit Omaha and how tournament strategy can vary especially early on with a higher importance of post-flop intelligence.
“I know where to find you,” Da Silva shared. “I may come back for some basic tips during the first break.”
We wish Da Silva the best of luck playing four-card poker for the first time. He is quite good at game theory, so I wouldn’t discount him from finding his way to the winner’s circle despite this being his first attempt at the game.
Level 6: 200/500 (500)
Entries: 1,112/1,375
Total Entries: 4,141
With Main Event registrations flying in faster than bots get deployed to meet guarantees on disreputable online poker sites, the total number of entries has jacked up past the 4,000 barrier with incredible ease. We are now up to over 4,100 players and the pace of entry is only slowing slightly. How much further will this beanstalk grow and who will climb to the top to tame the giant that is the Battle of Malta Autumn Edition! Stay tuned to find out.
Today’s Pot Limit Omaha tournament is capped at 4 tables and is now in play with 28 players registered so far. It will fill up quickly and anyone who wants to play is advised to register soon. One player who has done just that is Chris Da Silva from London.
- Buy-In: €330 (€300+€30)
- Tournament Began: 5pm
- Starting Stack: 30,000
- Blind levels: 25 mins
- Play Ends: When we have a winner!
The 28 players who made it into Day 2 of the €400 Winamax 6-Max returned today for a 3pm restart and they are now down to the last three tables, with 18 players left in. It’s a very slow structured tournament and still has a lot of play left in it, with more than €13,000 up top for the eventual winner.
Level 4: 100/300 (300)
Entries: 1,093/1,218
Today’s €400 NLH MAS side event has had to be cancelled as the numbers in he Main Event just keep on growing. Over 100 new players have joined the tournament in the last 30 minutes, taking the total to up to 1,218. Where will it stop?
Tonight’s Pot Limit Omaha, which starts at 5pm will have a 40 player cap again, as per yesterday.
Friday’s Omaha was capped at five tables and that filled up, to produce a field of 40 runners. It was won by Akos Palhazi.
- Buy-In: Invitation Only
- Entries: 49
- Prize Pool: £12,500
Pos | Player Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1 | Akos Palhazi | £3,870 |
2 | Wai Lam | £2,680 |
3 | Miko Maennistoe | £1,710 |
4 | Miha Pirsic | £1,310 |
5 | Matteo Pistillo | £1,030 |
6 | Jaan Vaabel | £800 |
The Redtooth Private Event was won by Frankie Chan
- Buy-In: Invitation Only
- Entries: 49
- Prize Pool: £12,500
Pos | Player Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1 | Frankie Chan | €5,000 |
2 | Colin Broadhead | €2,500 |
3 | Benjamin Wilkins | €1,500 |
4 | Richard Sharpe | €1,000 |
5 | Scott Hattersley | €700 |
6 | Martin Branscombe | €500 |
7 | Stewart Rooney | €400 |
8 | Garry Webb | €350 |
9 | Jonathan Hankins | €300 |
10 | Michael Yeo | €250 |
Level 4: 100/300 (300)
Entries: 969/1,043
The Main Event has just gone on its first break of the day and the field has now reached four figures, with 1,043 entries so far in the flight. With hours and hours to go until registration closes, this is sure going to be a big one! Play will resume in 30 minutes.
Level 2: 100/100 (100)
Entries: 870/903
Day 1g is booming and is nearly past the 939 entries attracted on Day 1e with 903 entries already in the field and 33 players hitting the rail during the first two blind levels.
The prize pool is already at €1,613,466 and growing as players continue to file in.
Level 3 is about to kick off with blinds at 100/200 along with a 200 big blind, providing new players a huge stack of 200 big blinds. A short 20-minute break will take place after Level 3 before three more blind levels will be played.
Level 2: 100/100 (100)
Entries: 845/862
Vicenzo Messina three-bet the button to 1,300 and was called by James Parker in the small blind, Giacomo Scarpaci from the big blind, Andrea Mazza from under the gun, Marc Schulz from early position, and Hans Nyberg from the cutoff.
Parker checked the T♣2♣J♠ flop before Scarpaci led out for 3,000. Mazza folded before Schulze went into the tank before calling. Nyberg then folded while Messina and Parker both found a call.
The four players all checked after the 7♦ turn before three players checked the Q♠ river. Messina bet 7,200. Parker tanked for about 30 seconds before he called. Scarpaci quickly folded before Schulze tanked for about 30 seconds as well. Schulze eventually folded but not before he showed the table he made a big lay down that he will soon regret with him flashing the Q♦J♦ for the top two pair.
Messina tabled the 8♣7♣ which didn’t get the job done against Parker who tabled the A♥Q♥ to win the hand with the top pair.
James Parker – 75,000
Vicenzo Messina – 40,000
Giacomo Scarpaci – 25,000
Marc Schulze – 25,000
Level 2: 100/100 (100)
Entries: 792/802
Level 2 just kicked off on Day 1g and the field has already surpassed 800 entries. The action is fast and furious at some tables with ten players thus far losing their 400 big blind stacks in the opening moments. At least thus far, no player has yet hit the rail twice, but that would have been quite the feat and required some serious coolers in Level 1.
The €400 6-Max by Winamax concluded its opening flights yesterday. The event attracted a short-handed field of 186 entries to create a €60,078 prize pool. Just 28 players survived with the payouts to be posted later in the day with the action starting at 3 p.m.
Pasquale Gregorio will kick off the action with the chip lead with 555,000 in chips. This represents a massive stack of 139 big blinds with blinds starting at 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 big blind ante and blinds increasing every 30 minutes until a champion is crowned this beautiful Saturday evening.
We decided to share the seat draw early, but there will be another reminder before the start of play about this fun event held in a cozy environment next to Casino Malta one floor below the lobby of the luxurious Intercontinental Hotel Malta.
Table | Seat | Name | Chips | Big Blinds |
158 | 1 | Daniel Kugler | 52,500 | 13 |
158 | 2 | Palina Mankevich | 117,000 | 29 |
158 | 3 | Mattia Ridi | 105,500 | 26 |
158 | 4 | Tiziano Colona | 78,500 | 20 |
158 | 5 | Ioannis Oikonomidis | 93,500 | 23 |
158 | 6 | Kyriakos Papadopoulos | 59,500 | 15 |
159 | 1 | Kristine Helveit | 180,000 | 45 |
159 | 2 | Luca Delrio | 460,500 | 115 |
159 | 3 | Siddharth Sudunagunta | 28,500 | 7 |
159 | 4 | Pasquale Gregorio | 555,000 | 139 |
159 | 5 | Valentin Imperatore | 320,000 | 80 |
159 | 6 | Nikolaos Valtatzis | 135,000 | 34 |
160 | 1 | Victor Fryda | 502,000 | 126 |
160 | 2 | Mari Nitteberg | 488,500 | 122 |
160 | 3 | Janos Kuertoesi | 37,000 | 9 |
160 | 4 | Daniel Heredi | 311,000 | 78 |
160 | 5 | Nicolas Belhair | 49,500 | 12 |
160 | 6 | Alexander Swieton-Barnes | 47,000 | 12 |
161 | 1 | Pierre Claverie | 210,000 | 53 |
161 | 2 | Christian Pedersen | 149,000 | 37 |
161 | 3 | Michael Kim Falcon | 300,000 | 75 |
161 | 5 | Pablo Garcia Alba | 246,500 | 62 |
161 | 6 | Roar Floetre | 251,000 | 63 |
162 | 1 | Vasyl Laba | 91,500 | 23 |
162 | 2 | Simon Persson | 425,000 | 106 |
162 | 3 | Patrick Frew | 102,000 | 26 |
162 | 4 | Hugo De La Fouchardiere | 89,000 | 22 |
162 | 5 | Adrian Panko | 113,000 | 28 |
With Day 1g now in play, let’s take a look at the full stats for the completed starting days of the Main Event so far. With three very busy flights left, the final tally is going to be much higher and some records may be broken. Stay tuned to the blog for news of every milestone that get reached throughout the day.
Flight | Entries | Survivors | Prizes | Chip Leader | Chips |
Catania | 111 | 8 | €27,944 | Andrea Savasto | 621,000 |
Day 1a | 362 | 54 | €182,267 | Humberto Lopes Galindo | 1,146,000 |
Day 1b | 133 | 10 | €33,483 | Krystian Nalepka | 599,000 |
Day 1c | 533 | 80 | €268,366 | Ivaylo Eftimov | 817,000 |
Day 1d | 274 | 21 | €68,980 | Jorris Neron | 762,000 |
Day 1e | 940 | 141 | €473,290 | Cecilia Pascaglini | 889,000 |
Day 1f | 417 | 31 | €104,980 | Anthony Loots | 716,000 |
Total Before Day 1g | 2770 | 345 | €1,159,309 | Humberto Lopes Galindo | 1,146,000 |
Level 1: 100/100
Entries: 723/724
One player has already busted their opening stack and re-entered in Israel’s Idan Levy. This isn’t the first time Levy has been witnessed at the Battle of Malta as he had a deep run in the 2022 Battle of Malta Main Event before bowing out in 109th place for €1,740.
Levy is hoping for a better run this week, or at least a better run on his second bullet of the day.
The final satellite for the Main Event began at 11am today and had a cap of 500 players put on it, which is reached pretty quickly. The cap was necessary due to the huge demand for seats into Day 1g of the Main Event, which began with 640 players and has new players entering at a steady rate.
They are down to 200 left in that satellite, which will produce 50 seats, most of whom will jump straight into Day 1g, which looks set to smash well past the 1,000 mark.
In total, the Main Event satellites at this edition of the Battle of Malta have generated 324 seats. For stats junkies, here’s the breakdown:
- Satellite 1 (Tue): 251 entries, 25 seats won
- Satellite 2 (Tue):182 entries, 18 seats won
- Satellite 3 (Wed): 256 entries, 25 seats won
- Satellite 4 (Wed): 424 entries, 42 seats won
- Satellite 5 (Thu): 508 entries, 50 seats won
- Satellite 6 (Thu): 459 entries, 45 seats won
- Satellite 7 (Fri): 409 entries, 40 seats won
- Satellite 8 (Fri): 299 entries 29 seats won
- Satellite 9 (Fri): 500 entries, 50 seats won
Level 1: 100/100
Entries: 680/680
The lofty €1.5 million guarantee at the 2024 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition Main Event has already been smashed seven minutes into Day 1g. The 680 early entrants have brought the total field size up to 3,450 including players from the half-priced flights to create a €1,501,185 prize pool and growing.
The prize pool will grow considerably from here with a full €600 Day 1g, half-priced €300 Day 1h tonight, and tomorrow morning’s turbo-charged €600 Day 1i.
Congrats to all of the players and staff for making this event yet another success story in everlasting story of Battle of Malta folklore. Best of luck to everyone battling today as we look forward to the next five days until a champion is crowned.
Day 1f of the Battle of Malta Main Event is now in play at Casino Malta and the Eden Arena at the Intercontinental Hotel in St Julians. Yesterday’s afternoon starting flight ended up with 940 participants, 141 of whom will be returning on Sunday evening once the last of the Day 1s has concluded.
When play commenced there were already over 640 players seated eager to begin their campaigns for a place in Day 2. This flight will be the major focus of our blog coverage today and rightly so, as its shaping up to be the mother-of-all flights at this edition of the Battle of Malta.
Already registered and doing battle are several familiar faces, such as Greek Fotios Ntamaris, the ninth place finisher in this year’s Spring Edition of the Battle of Malta. Also installed in the traps early today is a player who’s legendary status is currently trending on social media, the UK’s Paul Romain. Fingers crossed he has a better start to the day than he did in yesterday’s Redtooth event, where he had to settle for a very early bath.
The action stepped up another notch on Friday at the Battle of Malta Autumn Edition, with a seam bursting day that saw a total of 1,317 entries combined across both starting days of the €1.5m Main Event. In total there have now been 2,770 entries with three starting days to go. All in all, its shaping up to be one of the biggest in Battle of Malta history and could potentially become the biggest of all-time.
Here’s a roundup of Friday’s action from Casino Malta and the Eden Arena at the Intercontinental Hotel.
Day 1e of the Main Event
Friday’s daytime Day 1e, a full price €600 buy-in flight was the largest so far, with 940 entries getting into the mix. The day ended with 141 players finding a bag into Sunday’s Day 2 and saw three players finish with over 800,000 in chips to earn the flight’s leaderboard bonuses.
All the players that advanced will already be in the money for at least an €800 min-cash.
Italy’s Cecilia Pascaglini proudly bagged 889,000 to earn the honors of the Day 1e chip lead. This awarded her a whopping €10,000 bonus for an amazing return already on the Main Event.
Fellow Italian Francesco Tino earned €5,000 for ending the day with 822,000 in chips, while Greece’s Ioannis Diamantopoulos earned €3,000 for his third-place finish in the opening flight with 802,000 in chips.
The top 10 chip counts from the flight.
Player | Chips |
Cecilia Pascaglini | 889,000 |
Francesco Tino | 822,000 |
Ioannis Diamantopoulos | 802,000 |
Bogdan Jontulovic | 686,000 |
Maria Koutsouki | 682,000 |
Pavel Heger | 675,000 |
Nicola Sasso | 595,000 |
Dimitrios Manekas | 590,000 |
Ugo Gasparini | 557,000 |
Adrian Siewiera | 556,000 |
Check out the full chip from Day 1e in this blog post
Day 1f Half Price
Day 1f was a half-price €300 opening flight in which the rules were different, to create parity with the regular €600 opening flight. The 40,000 opening stack was halved to 20,000, as were the blind levels from 40 to 20 minutes.
Also, instead of 15 percent advancing, just 7.5 percent get through from these flights. Additionally, the end-of-day bonuses are awarded to the top two players (instead of the top three), with a total of €7,000 in bonuses instead of €18,000.
Day 1f witnessed 417 entries getting into the mix, with just 31 players finding a bag. On Sunday’s Day 2, they will start the day with at least a minimum amount of cash in hand worth €800.
Anthony Loots bagged the Day 1f chip lead after catapulting his 20,000 stack into 716,000. This was good enough for him to earn the €5,000 bonus, while Vladyslav Sikikhin earned an extra €2,000 for bagging the runner-up stack with 561,000.
These are the top ten finishers for the flight.
Player | Chips |
Anthony Loots | 716,000 |
Vladyslav Sidikhin | 561,000 |
Gabriele Nuzzo | 543,000 |
Gino Tolone | 498,000 |
Raffaele Caputo | 443,000 |
Alan Vinnicombe | 382,000 |
Valentin Imperatore | 369,000 |
Alessandro Acampora | 345,000 |
Paolo Nicolo’ | 335,000 |
Sven Reimaa | 333,000 |
The full list of chip counts for all 31 Day 1f survivors can be found here.
Mystery Siege Won By Dennis Stemmler for €41,200
The Mystery Siege of Malta also had a huge final starting flight and it could have been even bigger, however it reached its operational capacity and registration had to be capped earlier than expected. 354 players managed to get in before registration was closed, bringing the total number of entries up to 1,034. The final prize pool was quadruple the €100,000 guarantee.
The victor was Dennis Stemmler for €41,200 with Richard Koppel in second (€34,100). It was a late finishing event and we will deliver further details about how it unfolded and who won the big bounties in a dedicated post during today’s blog coverage.
Winamax 6-Max Day 1b
The €400 Winamax 6-Max saw a further 106 players join the 80 who played in Thursday’s opening flight, 16 of whom made it into Day 2 and guaranteed themselves a payday. In total 28 players will return at 3pm, when the prize prizes will be confirmed. The chip leader going into the final day is Italian Pasquale Gregorio, who has 555,500 chips. Check the blog later this afternoon for the full list of chip counts and the final day seating draw.
Satellites News
Friday’s satellites produced a further 69 Main Event seat winners. It would have been much more, but the evening satellite had to be capped due to the high attendance in both of the day’s Main Event flights. There is one further Main Event satellite on Saturday morning and this evening the satellite slot at 9pm switches focus to the Quigioco High Roller, which begins on Sunday afternoon.
Friday’s Side Event Results
In addition to the Mystery Siege of Malta, two other tournaments produced winners on Friday.
Frankie Chan won the Redtooth private event to take the £5,000 first prize, defeating a field of 49 players in a good natured event, which served as the seasonal final for the UK Pub Poker organization. Colin Broadbent was the runner up for £2,500 while Benjamin Wilkins claimed third for £1,500. One of the other finalists, Scott Hattersley even proposed to his girlfriend on the event’s final table live stream, which host Glenn Brown provided a running commentary for. She said yes!
Congratulations to Akos Palhazi, who won the evening’s €330 Pot Limit Omaha, which was contested by 40 players. He took the €3,870 first prize, defeating Wai Lun Lam heads up. Estonia’s Jaan Vaabel sneaked into the money in this one, finishing in 6th place.
Full results of these and all other completed events can be found on the results page.
Saturday’s Action At The Battle of Malta
Saturday is traditionally the biggest day for the Main Event at the Battle of Malta and if yesterday was anything to go by, we could be in for an absolute behemoth of day. With two further Main Event starting days taking place and already over €1m collected in the prize pool, the €1.5m guarantee is sure to be surpassed in Day 1g, which begins at 1pm.
Day 1g, the final half price (€300) flight begins at 8pm and is also likely to be busier than any of its previous sibling flights, the biggest of which so far was Friday’s Day 1f, which had 417 entries.
The only remaining Main Event satellite is the first event of the day. It begins at 11am and has 10 x 20 min levels for late registration.
The Winamax 6-Max event has reached its final day and resumes at 3pm
Two sponsored €300 No Limit Hold’em tournaments are taking place today, the first of which is the NLH MAS event at 4pm, with the NLH Netwin360 at 6pm.
There is another €330(€300+€30) Pot Limit Omaha today at 5pm and the first satellite for the Quigioco High Roller is scheduled for 9pm. There is also a €150 Hyper Turbo on the plan for 10pm.
Unfortunately due to just how much demand there was for players to play in both the full price and half price Main Event starting days, two of the tournaments on Friday had to be cancelled, the Dark Knight and the Hyper Turbo. Caps may be required to be placed on some events on Saturday and players are advised to buy-in early.
Time | Event | Buy-In | Fee | Starting Stack | Levels |
11:00 | Satellite One Shot to BOM €1,500,000 GTD | €60 | €10 | 10K | 20 min |
13:00 | BOM €1,500,000 GTD Day1G* | €530 | €70 | 40K | 40 min |
15:00 | 6max by Winamax (Day2) | 30 min | |||
16:00 | NLH MAS event | 260 | €40 | 20K | 20 min |
17:00 | Pot Limit Omaha €5,000 GTD | €300 | €30 | 30K | 25 min |
18:00 | NLH BETWIN360 event | €260 | €40 | 20K | 20 min |
20:00 | BOM €1,500,000 GTD Day1H** | €265 | €35 | 20K | 20 min |
21:00 | NLH Satellite Accumulator – QUIGIOCO – HIGH ROLLER €300,000 GTD | €110 | €20 | 10K | 20 min |
22:00 | NLH HYPERTURBO | €130 | €20 | 20K | 10 min |