September 8, 2026
Since its debut in 2012, the Battle of Malta has built a well-earned reputation as one of the premier stand-alone mid-stakes festivals in Europe, and it leaves home soil for the first time via an exciting international partnership with Card Casino Šamorín to welcome players to the Battle of Malta, Slovakia Edition.
The festival features a full week of action from September 7–14, headlined by the €400 buy‑in, €400,000 Main Event. Players can also dive into a packed schedule of side events, including a €40,000 Mystery Bounty and a €50,000 High Roller.
Card Casino Šamorín brings its own pedigree to the partnership, being Slovakia’s largest casino and one of Central Europe’s most serious poker rooms. Card Casino hosted the WSOP Circuit in both 2025 and 2026, with the 2026 edition carrying a €2,800,000 guarantee, and the event is set to return in February 2027.
Our reporting team will be on the floor bringing you coverage of all the action, while daily recaps will be at poker.pro. The Main Event final table will be streamed on September 14 on the Battle of Malta’s YouTube channel, with poker.pro‘s Jason Glatzer providing commentary, while our wonderful social media team will be bringing you all the big moments from the event via Facebook and Instagram. poker.pro’s Glenn Brown and Valeria Tamburin are on hosting duties throughout the week, bringing their well-known on-site energy to the festival’s first stop outside Malta.
Several innovations give added value to players, with Day 1a of the Main Event featuring a half‑price buy‑in, while the top-three finishers in Day 1b earn a chip‑leader cash bonus, with €3,000 for the player who tops the standings.
In addition, players who qualify in multiple starting flights will receive a cash bonus, with best-stack forward rules applying. A second Day 2 bag will secure players a €1,000 bonus, a third qualification earns €2,000, while the maximum bonus a player can earn is for four qualifications, which will result in a €4,000 payday.
A full satellite schedule also gives players a low‑cost route into the Main Event, while a satellite offering five €1,300 packages to the Battle of Malta in October 2026, with a €1.5 million guaranteed Main Event, takes place on September 12.
€400 Main Event Coverage
The reporting coverage of the €400,000 guaranteed Main Event kicks off at 6 p.m. local time on September 8 with Day 1a, the first of nine starting flights, which features a half-price €200 buy-in.
Players sit down to a 40,000 starting stack at blind level 100/200/200, with the clock set to 30-minute levels. Late registration remains open until the start of Level 11, with 12.5% of the field set to qualify from each flight.
All players who qualify for Day 2 will be in the money, and will receive an early payout of €500, while the final four will receive a €1,500 ticket to the WSOP Circuit event in Bratislava in February 2027, and fifth to ninth will receive a €1,200 package to the Battle of Malta in October. All prizes are deducted from the prize pool.
We will be on the floor from Day 1a until the trophy is lifted on September 14, with the full schedule below.
Battle of Malta Slovakia Edition Full Schedule
| Date | Time | Buy-In | Event | Starting Stack | Blinds | Late Reg | Prize Pool |
| Sept 7 | 19:00 | €70 | Satellite to Day 1b | 20,000 | 00:15 | 8 | 10x TCK |
| Sept 8 | 18:00 | €200 | Main Event Day 1a – Half Price | 40,000 | 00:30 | 10 | €400,000 |
| Sept 8 | 19:00 | €70 | Satellite to Day 1b | 20,000 | 00:15 | 8 | 10x TCK |
| Sept 9 | 17:00 | €220 | Mystery Bounty Day 1a | 30,000 | 00:30 | 12 | €40,000 |
| Sept 9 | 18:00 | €400 | Main Event Day 1b – Chip Leader Bonus | 40,000 | 00:30 | 10 | €400,000 |
| Sept 9 | 20:00 | €70 | Satellite to Day 1c | 20,000 | 00:15 | 8 | 5x TCK |
| Sept 10 | 14:30 | €100 | Satellite to High Roller | 10,000 | 01:00 | 1 | 5x TCK |
| Sept 10 | 17:00 | €220 | Mystery Bounty Day 1b | 30,000 | 00:30 | 12 | €40,000 |
| Sept 10 | 17:00 | €1,000 | NLH High Roller | 100,000 | 00:30 | 10 | €50,000 |
| Sept 10 | 18:00 | €400 | Main Event Day 1c | 40,000 | 00:30 | 10 | €400,000 |
| Sept 10 | 20:00 | €70 | Satellite to Day 1d | 20,000 | 00:15 | 8 | 5x TCK |
| Sept 11 | 11:00 | €55 | Rebuy/Add-On Satellite to Day 1 | 20,000 | 01:00 | 8 | 5x TCK |
| Sept 11 | 12:00 | €400 | Main Event Day 1d | 40,000 | 00:30 | 10 | €400,000 |
| Sept 11 | 15:00 | €220 | Mystery Bounty Final Day | — | 00:35 | — | €40,000 |
| Sept 11 | 18:00 | €400 | Main Event Day 1e | 40,000 | 00:30 | 10 | €400,000 |
| Sept 11 | 19:00 | €150 | Deepstack Turbo | 50,000 | 00:20 | 12 | €10,000 |
| Sept 11 | 20:00 | €70 | Satellite to Day 1f | 20,000 | 00:15 | 8 | 5x TCK |
| Sept 12 | 12:00 | €400 | Main Event Day 1f | 40,000 | 00:30 | 10 | €400,000 |
| Sept 12 | 13:00 | €70 | Satellite to Day 1g | 20,000 | 00:15 | 8 | 5x TCK |
| Sept 12 | 17:00 | €400 | Main Event Day 1g | 40,000 | 00:30 | 10 | €400,000 |
| Sept 12 | 18:00 | €70 | Last Chance Satellite to Day 1h | 20,000 | 00:15 | 8 | 5x TCK |
| Sept 12 | 19:00 | €150 | Satellite to Battle of Malta October | 20,000 | 00:25 | 10 | 5x Package |
| Sept 12 | 22:00 | €400 | Main Event Day 1h | 40,000 | 00:15 | 10 | €400,000 |
| Sept 13 | 10:00 | €400 | Main Event Day 1I | 40,000 | 00:15 | 10 | €400,000 |
| Sept 13 | 14:00 | €400 | Flip and GO | 10,000 | 00:01 | — | €4,000 |
| Sept 13 | 16:00 | — | Main Event Day 2 | — | 00:40 | — | €400,000 |
| Sept 13 | 17:00 | €200 | Second Chance ONE DAY | 40,000 | 00:25 | 10 | €20,000 |
| Sept 14 | 16:00 | — | Main Event Final Day | — | 00:50 | — | €400,000 |
| Sept 14 | 17:00 | €150 | Closer | 30,000 | 00:20 | 10 | — |
The journey to become the inaugural Battle of Malta Slovakia Edition Main Event champion starts here! Be sure to join us from 6 p.m. for coverage of Day 1a of the Main Event, as the Battle of Malta Slovakia Edition kicks off in style!
