With a €1 million guarantee for the flagship Main Event, Battle of Malta 2018 certainly set a high bar for success. But what a week it was! With 3,816 entries for the Main Event – nearly double the expected number – and 13,000 tournament entries overall, the tournament venue was packed throughout
It was a French heads-up, and it ended in spectacular fashion, worthy of a great tournament. The last nine players kicked off the action at 2 PM in the afternoon, and it didn’t take long until the first players had to say good-bye. Jerome Steven Mangum and Mateusz Moolhuizen busted
The 2018 Battle of Malta Main Event completed its quest to narrow 3,816 entries to just 1 and that sole survivor is France’s Julien Stropoli! A former Magic: The Gathering player and ascending poker pro Stropoli started the final table second-to-last in chips but showed no panic in working his
Julien Stropoli vince la Battle of Malta 2018! Giochi aperti in heads up, con Stropoli che ha 46 big blind contro i 33 del suo connazionale Canevet. Ma gli dei del poker non volevano un lungo heads-up e hanno dato vita a una clamorosa bad beat. Da bottone Stropoli apre
What a ride for Maxime Canevet. After that last double up Canevet won another hand and was up to 33 big blinds again. With his opponent, Julien Stropoli, on 46 big blinds the game looked completely open. But the poker gods didn’t fancy a long heads-up and delivered a nasty
Questo è il primo dei sei Battle of Malta in cui si sfidano in un heads-up due giocatori dello stesso paese, non era mai successo. Julien Stropoli e Maxime Canevet sono arrivati alla battaglia finale quando il danese Erik Ostergaard è stato eliminato subito dopo la pausa cena. Ma cosa