The 2023 Battle of Malta Spring Edition €600 Main Event kicked off its first of five opening flights with a bang with 273 entries getting into the mix. It seems based on this alone that the €500,000 guarantee will be decimated but time will tell by how much. The day ended Antoine Talvard parlayed his…
After all players bagged their chips, those are the official counts of the 41 surviving players: Name Chips Big Blinds Antoine Talvard 691,000 138 Dario Minieri 605,500 121 Pachalis Papadopoulos 459,500 92 Vitale Raffaele 373,000 75 Giulio Di Salvo 335,500 67 Francesco Ipogino 296,000 59 Rob Hendrikx 259,500 52 Fabio Peluso 253,500 51 Marcus Larsson…
Level 16: 2,500/5,000 (5,000) Entries: 41/273 After a few hands in hand for hand mode Arbel Hason was the first bubble boy of the Battle of Malta Main Event. He was all-in with against Flaviano Cammisuli who was way behind with . But the dealer fanned , giving Cammisuli a set to beat Hason. All…
Level 15: 2,000/4,000 (4,000) Entries: 42/273 Karev Tralla had a stack of around 300,000 at one point. His stack has vanished with a good part of it going to old-school Italian poker legend Dario Minieri. Tralla opened for 8,000 from middle position. Minieiri three-bet to 26,500 from the small blind. Tralla jammed for around 160,000…
Four-card enthusiasts had some fun earlier today with 41 entries creating a €6,816 prize pool in the €200 PLO Side Event. Six players finished in the money before Amit Cohen and Doron Peretz agreed to a heads-up deal with both players collecting an equal prize of €2,080. However, Cohen will go down in Battle of…
The €200 MAS Side Event attracted a field of 31 entries for a €5,006 prize pool. The action is down to the money with the final five players guaranteed at least a €400 payout. The winner will go home with a bigger top prize of €2,005. Michael Cauchi, Dario Nittolo, Simone Gatto, Emir Jusuframic, and…
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 (3,000) Entries: 45/273 We rarely report hands without a showdown, but we just witnessed a rather unusual fold by Konstantinos Kertikidis. We missed the action before and on the flop, but with 120k in the middle the board on the turn read . Konstantinos Kertikidis, who sat in the Small Blind, shoved…
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 (3,000) Entries: 46/273 Day 1a is just five players away from ending after Sergei Levin hit the rail in 47th place as follows. Levin, who recently doubled through Karev Tralla before losing some of his stack soon after, jammed for 41,000 from under the gun. The action quickly folded around to James…
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 (3,000) Entries: 47/273 Our chip leader Antoine Talvard was moved to Table 8 with over 600k chips. After a player in middle position opened, he made it 20k from the button. In the Small Blind Audrius Laimelis moved all-in for 60k and after the initial raiser folded, the action was back on…
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 (3,000) Entries: 48/273 Arbel Hason checked with the on the board after the turn before Fabio Peluso fired out for 35,000 into a pot of slightly more. Hason tanked for a couple of minutes before he folded. “Nice hand,” Hason said to Peluso. “Show your bluff,” another player at the table said…