Day 3 of the Battle of Malta Spring Edition’s Main Event on Monday saw 101 players return to the Eden Arena at the Intercontinental Hotel to fight it out for a place in the fourth day of the €600 buy-in event. 

But not only that, there were also several other tournaments in play throughout the day, including the €1,100 Amazingbet High Roller, another two-day event. There were also three one-day side events that were completed yesterday. 

Highlights from Monday April 8th at the 2024 Battle of Malta Spring Edition:

• Day 3 of the main event saw the field reduced from 101 to just 24 players
• Day 1 of the Amazingbet €1,100 High Roller
• The final day of the €250 Full Tilt Catania PKO Regressive
• Battle of Malta Blogger Frank Visser scoops €330 PLO Knockout Win
• Live updates of the Main Event Day 3 on the Battle of Malta Blog
• Photos, interviews and more on the Battle of Malta’s social channels Facebook and Instagram

Main Event Day 3

The Battle of Malta’s Spring Edition has just 24 players left in contention for the €100,000 first prize, with Estonian Rasmus Sepping leading the way on just under 5m chips. He holds a lead of over 1m chips on Erik Lindqwist from Sweden and Vasileios Zisis, who both posted 3,650,000 chip counts. Zisis from Greece had been the chip leader of the 101 players who began Day 2, of which 77 hit the rail.

Lithuanian Modestas Kryzanauskas, who tasted victory earlier in the week in the Montecarlo Poker House event, went into the day third in chips but it didn’t go according to plan. He is still in the field for Day 4 but as the shortest stack of the remaining contestants, with just 260,000 chips, equivalent to just seven big blinds.

If you missed the action, the full story of how the day unfolded can be read on event’s dedicated blog.

End of Day 3 Chip Counts

Player	Country	Chip Count
Rasmus Sepping	Estonia	4,880,000
Erik Lindqwist	Sweden	3,650,000
Vasileios Zisis	Greece	3,650,000
Giuseppe Rosa	Italy	3,575,000
Marko Luksa	Serbia	3,125,000
Antonino Calabro	Italy	3,000,000
Alfredo Cuti	Italy	2,935,000
Nico Frenn	Switzerland	2,765,000
Stefano Munafo	Italy	2,545,000
Daniel Maunders	United Kingdom	2,430,000
Michal Janczarski	Poland	2,170,000
Filippe Busatto	Italy	2,140,000
Nicola Ciraolo	Italy	2,100,000
Antonino Arigo	Italy	2,095,000
Sokratis Papavramidis	Greece	2,080,000
Jan-Joost van den Bogert	United Kingdom	1,940,000
Jakub Bosko	Slovakia	1,865,000
Kristian Dahl	Denmark	1,790,000
Mehdi Rebai	Tunesia	1,650,000
Fotios Ntamaris	Greece	1,525,000
Dimitrios Gkatzas	Greece	1,335,000
Andrea Agnoletto	Italy	650,000
Salvatore Lavolpe	Italy	555,000
Modestas Kryzanauskas	Lithuania	260,000

€1,100 Amazingbet High Roller Regressive

The Battle of Malta’s High Roller, sponsored by Amazingbet began on Monday evening, when 122 players took their seats. It has a regressive structure, so blinds get rolled back three levels at the start of Day 2 and late registration remains open during these. The largest stack of the 65 players who made it through the day was posted by Silvio De Petrillo, who bagged up 226,500. He has a healthy lead over second placed Reza Karimkhanezand on 165,500. Play resumes at 1pm and we will be covering the final day action with live updates on the Battle of Malta Blog.

High Roller Top 10 Chipcounts

Country	Player	Chip Count
Italy	Silvio De Petrillo	226,500
Iran	Reza Karimkhanezand	165,500
Lithuania	Audrius Laimelis	158,400
Poland	Michal Wargin	157,100
Italy	Pasqualino Di Santo	149,500
Italy	Salvatore Caruso	145,000
Croatia	Prela Niki	137,000
Switzerland	Dirk Gerth	135,500
Lithuania	Sarunas Linkius	123,300
Latvia	Elvijs Kuceruks	118,700

Tomas Dusanek wins €250 NLH PKO Full Tilt Catania Regressive

The €250 NLH PKO sponsored by Full Tilt Catania also featured a regressive structure and late registration also remained open for the first three levels of the day. There were over 80 players who joined on Day 2 to bring the total field up to 332 entries. It was won by Czech player Tomas Dusanek, who claimed 8 bounties along the way.  The payouts listed below do not include bounty prizes. For the full result, please visit the Results Page

Position	Player	Prize
1	Tomas Dusanek	€ 5,380
2	Benedetto Caruso	€ 4,050
3	Duarte Inacio	€ 3,020
4	Gabriel Rymar	€ 2,360
5	Francesco Urso	€ 1,760
6	Salvatore Giliberti	€ 1,350
7	Giovanni Preveti	€ 1,050
8	Francesco Montalto	€ 800
9	Jakub Szczotka	€ 640

 

Jun Li wins €200 NLH Old School Bloom (€2,430)

The tournament with the name most in keeping with the Battle of Malta Spring Edition’s floral theme was the €200 No Limit Hold’em ‘Old School Bloom.’ It was a quieter tournament than most with just 29 entries, from which Jun Li from China came out on top, for €2,430

Position	Player	Prize
1	Jun Li	€ 2,430
2	Daniel Istrofor	€ 1,620
3	Max Gerritsen	€ 1,040
4	Giovanni Russo	€ 690

Georgios Grigoropoulos wins €250 NLH IPF Event (€4,260)

The Italian Poker Federation (IPF) €250 NLH event was won by Greek player Georgios Grigoropoulos. The tournament had 133 entrants, including Ladies Event winner Cheng Peng Tan. Unfortunately for the Singapore player, who’s nickname is “Champagne”, she exited in 19th place, two places short of the prize money.

Position	Player	Prize
1	Georgios Grigoropoulos	€ 4,260
2	Tor Andre Nesse	€ 2,660
3	Kristof Everaerts	€ 2,060
4	Georgios Boutsakis	€ 1,660
5	Domenico Tresa	€ 1,310
6	Giannis Mantonanakis	€ 1,010
7	Eleonora Barlini	€ 810
8	Michal Urbanski	€ 640
9	Abdellah Baali	€ 510
10	Nunzio La Mattia	€ 420
11	Antonio Viselli	€ 420
12	David Strbacka	€ 350
13	Cen Mingrui	€ 350
14	Costantino Giannuzzi	€ 300
15	Lukas Fiam	€ 300
16	Daniele Raimondi	€ 300
17	Michele Mercurio	€ 300

Frank Visser Wins €330 PLO (4 Cards) Knockout (€3,500 including bounties)

Today’s non-Hold’em tournament was the €330 PLO (4 Cards) Knockout. The bounties were not progressive and worth €150 each. It was a well attended event with 48 players taking their seats, including Battle of Malta bloggers Aleksander Giorgiev and Frank Visser, who were able to join the game due to Day 3 of the Battle of Malta Main Event finishing early. 

Aleksander started out really well, amassing over 160,000 chips in the first few levels to become on of the chip leaders, however his early chip haul came without bounties. Frank started a little bit slower, but also well, claiming some bounties in the first few levels and had trebled his stack by the time the field had been cut in half.

Both bloggers remained in contention as the tournament approached the money, but unfortunately for Aleksander he bubbled and his vanquisher was none other than his colleague Frank!

Frank never looked back from this point, built a healthy chip lead and went on to claim the first prize. He scooped nine bounties along the way for a total payout of €3,500. Luckily he’s a get-it-quietly type of person and didn’t go out on the town to celebrate, so there’s no danger that he won’t show up for his duties when Day 4 of the Battle of Malta resumes.

Position	Player	Prize	# Bounties	Bounty Prize	Total Prize
1	Frank Visser	€ 2,150	9	€ 1,350	€ 3,500
2	Fabio Angelo Bianchi	€ 1,570	4	€ 600	€ 2,170
3	Daniel Marsden	€ 1,000	5	€ 750	€ 1,750
4	Matthias Lang	€ 760	2	€ 300	€ 1,060
5	Martin Byrne	€ 590	1	€ 150	€ 740
6	Benjamin Nuler	€ 450	2	€ 300	€ 750
7	Nikolay Dobrev	€ 360	3	€ 450	€ 810

 

Tuesday’s Tournament Schedule at the Battle of Malta

Tuesday is the penultimate day of the Battle of Malta Spring Edition and the last day in which there is a full schedule of tournaments. But it’s still set to be a busy one, with several tournaments on the schedule, including the Main Event and the High Roller, which both resume at 1pm. Although it is the second and final day of the High Roller tournament, late registration will remain open during the first three levels of the day. Cash games are still running within Casino Malta (two floors below the conference hall).

Time	Event
1 p.m.	Battle of Malta Day 4
1 p.m.	€1,100 NLH Amazingbet High Roller Regressive Day 1
4 p.m.	€330 NLH Novibet Ultradeep PKO
5 p.m.	€330 H.O.R.S.E
7 p.m.	€250 MAS Full Bounty
9 p.m.	€220 Dark Knight IV
10 p.m.	€130 NLH Cash Your Seat at 100k Chips