November 3, 2024
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 |
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- Day 1h chip leader Petr Kubenka
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- Day 1h second place Giampiero Arena
