A new attendance record has been set for the Mystery Siege of Malta, with a total of 1,313 entries in the €450 Mystery Bounty Event. The final starting flight saw 647 players take their seat for the morning starting final flight of the event, resulting in a total prize pool of over half a million Euros.

Main Event Climbs to over 2,500 Entries

Friday’s Day 1e of the Main Event saw 923 players take their seats, 138 of whom made it through to Day 2. A further 330 entered the evening’s half price flight. With three of the biggest starting days still to come, it remains in the balance as to whether a new participation record will be set at the Battle of Malta Spring Edition.

Unfortunately, a technical issue affecting the tournament cloak occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning, which prevents us from publishing the names and chip counts of the survivors from Friday’s Main Event, or the full results of the Mystery Siege and the other tournaments that were still running when the fault occurred.

Further details of Main Event survivors and side event winners will be published as soon as the issues have been resolved.

Dimitrios Amplianitis Wins Second Trophy of the Festival

It’s not even half way through the 2025 Battle of Malta Autumn edition and already we have a contender for the fantasy player of the series title. It’s a fantasy title because there is no such POS race, however if there was one, he’d be the front runner.

Dimitrios Amplianitis won the first outing of the Dark Knight on Wednesday, becoming one of the first recipients of a Mdina Glass warrior trophy. That simply made him hungry for more and on Friday he quenched that thirst, taking down the title in Friday’s White Knight, after a heads up deal with Swiss Adrian Vogt.

It was reported that the deal took place after Dimitrios Amplianitis had won a huge double up to take a massive chip lead, but was so determined to get a second trophy that he offered his opponent an almost 50/50 deal, which one presumes was snap agreed to.

Amplianitis cashed for €3,578.50 in the Dark Knight and added a further €4,260 to his running total for the week in the White Knight. There’s no other versions of the Knight tournaments for him to win next, but we’re pretty sure he will take a stab at acquiring a third trophy.

Friday’s €330 PLO tournament had a 4/5 card round of each format. It was almost as busy as Thursday’s four card PLO offering, with 99 players taking part. This event took place within Casino Malta, in the basement of the hotel and it’s expected that this is where Saturday’s PLO will also be staged.

The Dark Knight also ran, with 214 entries. Due to the technical issue with the tournament clock, we are still awaiting the full results of these events.

The Redtooth Malta 52 also took place on Friday, with Glenn Brown hosting the pub league’s annual overseas jaunt to escape the miserable October UK weather. It was a good natured event, as it always is and was won by Edward Cherrie.

Satellite Battle Light

Thursday’s two satellites had 1,303 entries between them and that seemed big, but Friday was even bigger, with over 1,500 buy-ins. The morning satellite saw 688 players have a breakfast time bash at winning a Main Event, meanwhile the evening version roused a further 820 souls to have a go. In total 140 seats for the Main Event were awarded and Saturday’s final Main Event qualifier at 11am is expected to be the biggest yet!

Saturday’s Schedule at the Battle of Malta

Saturday at Casino Malta will be the single busiest day of the festival. With the Siege of Malta now concluded, the focus of the day will be fully on the Main Event. There’s two further Main Event starting days, at 1pm and 8pm. There are expected to be 900+ in the satellite and maybe a similar number at the start of Day 1g of the Main Event.

There are three other side events scheduled, the sponsored €260+€40 NLH MAS event, the final €300+€30 Omaha event of the festival and another €170+€30 Dark Knight.

The final event of the day, at 9pm, is a €110+€30 satellite into the €1,000+€100 Qui Gioco High Roller

Time	Tournament Name	Buy-in	Stack	Levels
11:00	Satellite One Shot to BOM €1.500.000 GTD	€60+€10	10K	20 min
13:00	BOM €1.5m GTD Day 1G 15% progress to Day 2	€530+€70	40K	40 min
15:00	NLH MAS Event	€260+€40	20K	20 min
17:00	Pot Limit Omaha 5,000 GTD	€300+€30	30K	25 min
18:00	NLH Dark Knight	€170+€30	20K	20 min
20:00	BOM €1.5 GTD Day 1H 7.5% progress to Day 2	€265+€35	20K	20 min
21:00	NLH Satellite Accumulator – HIGH ROLLER €300,000 GTD	€110+€20	10K	20 min