November 2, 2024
Day 1f of the 2024 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition Main Event at Casino Malta and the Eden Arena at the InterContinental Malta boasted a half-price €300 opening flight. 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.
This is not all, as instead of 15 percent advancing, just 7.5 percent was slated for these flights. Also, 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 on Day 1f with 561,000. Check out the full chip counts below from the 31 Day 1f survivors.
| 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 |
| Yinchian Liu | 332,000 |
| Tony Kennheden | 322,000 |
| Pawel Spyra | 267,000 |
| Markus Kentzler | 266,000 |
| Pantelis Pavlis | 234,000 |
| Attila Berezvay | 224,000 |
| Carl Davies | 224,000 |
| Luigi Rieti | 203,000 |
| Kikenis Konstantinos | 199,000 |
| Wai Hung Hung | 168,000 |
| Michele Pieri | 153,000 |
| James Moore | 146,000 |
| Christian Christandl | 144,000 |
| Frank Schelling | 142,000 |
| Johannes Thoni | 140,000 |
| Anthon Burvall | 126,000 |
| Edoardo De Bellis | 126,000 |
| Giuseppe Caciolo | 120,000 |
| Frederik Brink | 114,000 |
| Andreas Fjeldstad | 90,000 |
| Tom Meiners | 72,000 |
