Finland’s Aleksi Naski was the star of Day 1b after bagging the biggest stack of 460,500 just ahead of Italy’s Alessandro Barone who ended the day with 442,000. Both players were behind the 470,000 that the 2018 Battle of Malta champion Julien Stropoli advanced with on Day 1a with Day 1a chip leader Tayfun Rodoplu…
Level 16: 2,500/5,000 (5,000) Entries: 47/310 Day 1b is now in the books after two players were eliminated on the same hand. Meanwhile, Bastian Rebscher got a bit of a chip up in one of the final hands of the night after Rasmus Eriksson opened the button to 12k and both blinds called. All three…
Level 15: 2,000/4,000 (4,000) Entries: 59/310 Daniel Pereira Henriques opened to 9,000 from the cutoff and button Bogdan Codreanu called to the flop of . Henriques bet 8,000 and got the call from Codreanu and he fired again for 23k on the turn. Codreanu again called to see on the river. Henriques checked this time…
The final table has been reached and players are in the money in the €350 NLH Freezeout after more than eight hours of play. The top 11 players locked up at least a €710 payout with the final nine all securing a little more with at least a €810 payout. Zdenek Zizka, Thomas Harnes, Amteusz Piwowarczyk, Pedro Faustino, Paolo…
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 (3,000) Entries: 64/310 There were just a lot of chips moving across Table 40. I arrived after all the action was done and dusted and Luciano Capossela was counting out a huge double for Bastian Rebscher on a board that read . Capossela got it in with two pair holding queen-ten, but…
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 (3,000) Entries: 69/310 Bogdan-Adrian Codreanu opened for 7,500 from early position before Salvatore Motta three-bet shoved for 54,000. Codreanu asked for a count before he found a call. Salvatore Motta: Bogdan-Adrian Codreanu: Motta pulled out ahead after his queen connected on the flop. However, the turn pushed Codreanu back ahead as he…
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 (3,000) Entries: 72/310 Player Chips Blinds Rasmus Eriksson 345,000 115 Thibaut Thevenet 325,000 108 Kristian Holden 250,000 83 Tebege Samuel 236,000 79 Alessandro Barone 230,000 77 Giacomo Evangelista 210,000 70 Luciano Capossela 187,000 62 Christopher Agius 180,000 60 Edward Ferdinand 175,000 58
Players are on their fifth break of Day 1b. The blinds will increase to 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 big blind ante when the action resumes.
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 (2,000) Entries: 77/310 Tebege Samuel tried to raise to 3,300, but Sergejs Korobovs pointed out the the raise had to be 4k. Samuel made it 4k only to face a raise to 12k from Korobovs. He called to see on the flop, but he check-folded to a bet of 11k from Korobovs.…
Lyle Bateman joined our reporting team at the Battle of Malta for the first time. He traveled quite far to get here from Western Canada and thus far has been enjoying his experience. Learn more about Lyle in his interview with Battle of Malta host Patricia Rimfire.