Malta Poker Festival Grand Event Day 1e / 1f Survivors & Day 2 Seat Draw
69 players of the 248 runners in Day 1e made it through in the Malta Poker Festival Grand Event, and a small clutch of players also pulled through from the turbo leg of this Grand Event, Day 1f which faced some controversy when tournament directors decided to extend it beyond level 13 so as to reach the same average stack size as the other flight that day. Players protested but the ruling was firm, and they played on to the end of level 16 in this flight.
The Day 2 seat draw is now out, revealing all the remaining stacks and where they’ll be seated going into this huge Day 2.
The largest stack leading the field for Day 1e at close of play was Swede Ridvan Kilincaslan bagging 423k.
Hungarian Norbert Bundik (featured in our cover image) was the largest stacked PokerDeals Last Longer Participant going through from Day 1e, progressing with 420k, and he was in good company, with patched players Eden Azulay, Massimo Chierchia, Mariano Bucca, Ori Hasson, Carl Redemo, Daryl Benton, Soner Vanelderen, Javier Casal, Barnabas Nagy, Tom Frederickx, Mattia Gentile, Marc Grobety, Nicky Molmans, Andrea Melluzzo, Federico Petruzzelli, Pavlos Benakis, Thomas Noske and Joachim Vonalt also making it.
From Day 1f the best PokerDeals patched player stack was British player Kevin Houghton's, at 241k, and he went through along with fellow patched players Herman Marco, Vlantouts Kourka, Tracey Dunn and Steven Wendt. The biggest stack in Day 1f was Lithuanian Mantas Petrauskas with 434k.
Here is the full seat draw for Day 2 of this Grand Event, with our awesome PokerDeals Last Longer Participants highlighted, naturally! As you can see the player leading that race for a free ticket to the very next Malta Poker Festival Grand Event in our PokerDeals promotion is UK player Robert Lim with a monstrous 502k in chips, and 76 PokerDeals patched players remain in contention.
| MPF GRAND EVENT DAY 2 | |||
| Players 273/1014 | |||
| Player | Table | Seat | Chips |
| ISRAEL NEMO | 2 | 6 | 667,000 |
| D'ALTERIO LUIGI | 20 | 8 | 538,000 |
| FRYDA VICTOR MACEO | 18 | 1 | 522,000 |
| KUIPER BART BORIS | 5 | 2 | 512,000 |
| LUTTKE GRECH GREGORY ANTHONY | 4 | 3 | 503,000 |
| LIM ROBERT JR CABRAL | 27 | 4 | 502,000 |
| PETRAUSKAS MANTAS | 8 | 2 | 494,000 |
| AKHOUN CHARIF | 12 | 9 | 463,000 |
| YE SIMON YILI | 29 | 4 | 459,000 |
| MORRIS PAUL ADRIAN | 4 | 5 | 451,000 |
| NINIS GEORGIOS | 30 | 9 | 429,000 |
| KILINCASLAN RIDVAN | 19 | 9 | 423,000 |
| BUNDIK NORBERT | 6 | 2 | 420,000 |
| VUJANIC TANJA | 3 | 2 | 417,000 |
| SEITZ HERBERT | 14 | 2 | 404,000 |
| ZAWADOWICZ PAWEL | 1 | 6 | 399,000 |
| BOUVIER ALEXIS SERGE VICTOR | 18 | 6 | 397,000 |
| STACKOWIAK ANTOINE DANIEL | 3 | 1 | 391,000 |
| PELLERIN TANGUY NATHANAEL JACQUES | 6 | 3 | 389,000 |
| DUMAS JORDAN BERRAND MANUEL | 22 | 8 | 386,000 |
| ZIEGLER UWE | 19 | 3 | 381,000 |
| VAN MOORSEL JASPER ARTHUR | 31 | 5 | 368,000 |
| BERTI FABIO | 15 | 2 | 366,000 |
| MIELCZAREK BARTOSZ | 29 | 7 | 366,000 |
| AZULAY EDEN | 14 | 1 | 362,000 |
| GRECH JOSEPH | 25 | 9 | 353,000 |
| DEMIRCAN SERDAR | 17 | 9 | 350,000 |
| BRUNO MASSIMO | 31 | 3 | 346,000 |
| MONAGHAN PAUL | 2 | 8 | 345,000 |
| MUSACCHIA MARIO | 11 | 8 | 345,000 |
| LANGFIELDT NICOLAY | 27 | 2 | 342,000 |
| TSAKAS STAVROS | 4 | 2 | 340,000 |
| CHIERCHIA MASSIMO | 30 | 7 | 333,000 |
| APRILE FABIO | 14 | 4 | 322,000 |
| HERNSTROM MIKAEL | 21 | 7 | 319,000 |
| ACQUART OLIVIER | 17 | 8 | 315,000 |
| HEGER PAVEL | 20 | 5 | 315,000 |
| CIRILLO FEDERICO LUCIANO | 29 | 2 | 312,000 |
| LARSEN SEBASTIAN NICOLAJ TOPS | 7 | 2 | 308,000 |
| INCARDONA SALVATORE | 27 | 3 | 307,000 |
| CLEMENT KERRIEN | 2 | 2 | 306,000 |
| THOMAS MICKAEL | 28 | 6 | 305,000 |
| GUERRERO ANTONIO | 6 | 6 | 303,000 |
| EROTOKRITOU ANDREAS | 11 | 4 | 303,000 |
| BREMSETH TERJE HUMIO | 16 | 1 | 303,000 |
| SALVINO SALVATORE | 21 | 6 | 303,000 |
| PAVLOVA TSVETELINA | 25 | 6 | 296,000 |
| BELSKY ILANA | 15 | 9 | 295,000 |
| BUCCA MARIANO | 29 | 9 | 294,000 |
| BRATT KARL PETER MIKAEL | 15 | 5 | 293,000 |
| FURNERI ALESSANDRO GIUSEPPE | 4 | 6 | 286,000 |
| BURGIO EDUARDO | 8 | 1 | 283,000 |
| PULLIAINEN SAMI ALEKSI | 11 | 2 | 283,000 |
| MANNS SASCHA | 29 | 5 | 280,000 |
| NEDERLOF LEENDERT MAARTEN HENDRIK | 10 | 1 | 278,000 |
| WESTERMARK PER CHRISTIAN | 14 | 8 | 278,000 |
| READ CHRISTINA | 5 | 3 | 277,000 |
| DOV FRIEDLAND | 2 | 7 | 276,000 |
| GOROSH NOAH | 19 | 6 | 269,000 |
| COSIC MARKO | 1 | 3 | 260,000 |
| SZOBONYA ERIK | 1 | 5 | 260,000 |
| BLANCO CRISTIANO | 22 | 1 | 254,000 |
| BARONE DARIO | 2 | 9 | 253,000 |
| KEREN CHEN HAIM | 29 | 6 | 252,000 |
| HASSON ORI | 17 | 5 | 250,000 |
| BISHARA TOMASZ MICHAL | 19 | 8 | 250,000 |
| REDEMO CARL PETTER ALEXANDER | 5 | 9 | 246,000 |
| PUSTULA JACEK | 8 | 7 | 244,000 |
| D'ANTONI NICOLAJ | 1 | 7 | 242,000 |
| SHELLUM JASON SHANE | 20 | 4 | 242,000 |
| HOUGHTON KEVIN | 9 | 4 | 241,000 |
| GREGOR JEFFREY | 11 | 3 | 240,000 |
| GALA DOMENICO | 2 | 1 | 231,000 |
| SAMBRON RICHARD GUY FRANTZ | 16 | 5 | 231,000 |
| HU DAVID JING ZHEN | 7 | 6 | 230,000 |
| SIENA ALESSANDRO | 16 | 4 | 228,000 |
| HAMMANN BENJAMIN PIERRE | 21 | 4 | 228,000 |
| PALOKANGAS MATS JOHAN FREDRIK | 19 | 1 | 227,000 |
| REUFEL ROBIN | 7 | 7 | 226,000 |
| VAT MICHEL | 19 | 4 | 226,000 |
| TODOROV ZHIVKO | 4 | 9 | 225,000 |
| ULUDAG BORA | 10 | 4 | 220,000 |
| HOOGENDIJK JAN DAAN | 23 | 9 | 211,000 |
| VANELDEREN SONER MARIO S | 4 | 4 | 210,000 |
| BENTON DARYL | 9 | 3 | 210,000 |
| CASAL FERREIRA JAVIER | 19 | 5 | 209,000 |
| HEGYI ZOLTAN | 20 | 2 | 206,000 |
| RE GABRIELE | 23 | 7 | 206,000 |
| CRESSENT AENAUD PHILIPPE PIERRE | 24 | 7 | 206,000 |
| NAGY BARNABAS | 13 | 6 | 205,000 |
| GRAVAGNA FAUSTO | 21 | 2 | 205,000 |
| HERMAN MARCO | 11 | 5 | 204,000 |
| BLOMER SEBASTIAN | 15 | 1 | 203,000 |
| DA SILVA CHRISTOPHER | 16 | 3 | 202,000 |
| GALEA RAYMOND | 20 | 6 | 200,000 |
| TORREGROSSA ADRIANO | 16 | 7 | 195,000 |
| GIANNOTTI NICOLAS YVES PAUL MARCEL | 12 | 3 | 194,000 |
| MASSON MARIO HUBERT | 27 | 6 | 194,000 |
| HARRY ULYSSE,ARNAUD,MAURICE | 5 | 1 | 191,000 |
| NORDEMAN SKOLIN KARL WILLIAM SIMON | 27 | 1 | 190,000 |
| UWE MATTHIAS | 8 | 5 | 186,000 |
| FREDERICKX TOM | 10 | 6 | 186,000 |
| AVERAGE 185.700 | |||
| TOOME OTT-KAARLI | 12 | 4 | 185,000 |
| NAVA GIOVANNI | 19 | 2 | 185,000 |
| MORRIS IAN PAUL | 5 | 8 | 184,000 |
| KANE STEPHEN OLIVER | 20 | 7 | 184,000 |
| HELENE DOMINIQUE, MICHEL | 1 | 8 | 182,000 |
| CECCARELLI NICCOLO' | 9 | 7 | 180,000 |
| CAPEZZERA PATRICK | 11 | 7 | 180,000 |
| COMPAGNA BRUNO | 15 | 4 | 180,000 |
| PERSENT JON PER | 22 | 4 | 180,000 |
| BOCK FLORIAN | 16 | 9 | 175,000 |
| GIRONDIN YOHANN EDDY | 31 | 7 | 172,000 |
| SCHUURBIERS WOUTER LEO J | 8 | 6 | 171,000 |
| ALLSALU ANDRES | 12 | 2 | 171,000 |
| GRASSO DANIELE | 13 | 3 | 171,000 |
| ALLAIN VICTOR SIMON | 1 | 2 | 170,000 |
| VAUX LOIC AXEL JEROME | 5 | 4 | 170,000 |
| GENTILE MATTIA | 26 | 6 | 170,000 |
| LIEVENS TOMMY ROGER | 30 | 2 | 168,000 |
| JARMAN WILLIAM JOSEPH RAYMOND | 1 | 1 | 167,000 |
| SPITZL MARTIN | 9 | 5 | 167,000 |
| SENNHAUSER SIMON PETER | 15 | 8 | 166,000 |
| CHEUNG HO TIEN | 30 | 1 | 166,000 |
| FRENCH DOMINICK LEON | 18 | 7 | 165,000 |
| LAKERVEID DANIEL M | 7 | 3 | 164,000 |
| PABION CLEMENT SAMUEL | 13 | 2 | 164,000 |
| PATANE ANGELO | 2 | 3 | 163,000 |
| SIMON GYORGI | 18 | 8 | 163,000 |
| SPADOLA SALVATORE | 26 | 7 | 162,000 |
| GROBETY MARC | 3 | 5 | 161,000 |
| PETRY DIDIER GEORGES GUY | 24 | 6 | 160,000 |
| BRZEZINSKI TOMASZ PIOTR | 26 | 9 | 160,000 |
| MOLMANS NICKY | 26 | 1 | 160,000 |
| DRUEDAHL ANDERS | 10 | 5 | 159,000 |
| CIGLIANO ALBERTO | 12 | 8 | 159,000 |
| PAILLOT SYLVERE FELIX | 10 | 8 | 158,000 |
| SCHAEVEN THOMAS | 12 | 7 | 158,000 |
| MELLUZZO ANDREA | 16 | 6 | 158,000 |
| ADAMS MARK | 6 | 8 | 157,000 |
| NERRIEC NATHAN GWENVAEL | 13 | 5 | 157,000 |
| ROBERTS ROSARIE | 15 | 3 | 153,000 |
| PETRUZZELLI FEDERICO | 24 | 2 | 152,000 |
| MASENADORE ANDREA | 19 | 7 | 151,000 |
| FUNARI CHRISTOPHER | 31 | 8 | 151,000 |
| HEGYI JOZSEF | 13 | 1 | 150,000 |
| DROCHON PIERRE ANDRE SEBASTIEN | 9 | 8 | 147,000 |
| WHITEHEAD JORDAN JAMES | 21 | 5 | 147,000 |
| CAJIGAS JASON | 23 | 1 | 147,000 |
| MAILLAUD NICOLAS SEBASTIEN | 30 | 3 | 147,000 |
| HEGGELMANN NIKO | 7 | 5 | 145,000 |
| ANDERSEN TOBAIS | 18 | 5 | 141,000 |
| VELLA MARK ANTHONY | 20 | 9 | 140,000 |
| DE MARIO MASSIMO | 24 | 3 | 139,000 |
| BENAKIS PAVLOS | 17 | 6 | 138,000 |
| PICHIERRI ALESSANDRO | 11 | 9 | 137,000 |
| MAZIER TONY | 18 | 3 | 137,000 |
| ZACHMANIDIS GEORGIOS | 29 | 3 | 137,000 |
| HALASI ANDRAS | 3 | 9 | 136,000 |
| MIRABELLA ANGELO | 5 | 6 | 135,000 |
| LOMBARDO SIMONE | 23 | 3 | 135,000 |
| SEILER JONATHAN NITYA SAMUEL | 31 | 2 | 135,000 |
| GRUPPOSO GIUSEPPE | 24 | 4 | 134,000 |
| TADIC ZVEZDAN | 4 | 7 | 133,000 |
| POWELL STEVEN KENNETH | 26 | 2 | 133,000 |
| NARDIN ROMAIN PATRICK SEBASTIEN | 13 | 4 | 132,000 |
| ARNSBY KATHERINE MAY | 12 | 5 | 130,000 |
| KAPPER DANIEL | 9 | 2 | 127,000 |
| JACK LLOYD | 18 | 4 | 127,000 |
| GAYER DAMIEN SYLVAIN | 28 | 7 | 127,000 |
| LI JIAGUI | 1 | 4 | 126,000 |
| LY QUOC DUNG KALLE | 6 | 4 | 126,000 |
| DRAY SAMUEL | 6 | 9 | 126,000 |
| ASSENNATO FABIO | 21 | 1 | 126,000 |
| PEREIRA HENRIQUES DANIEL FILIPE | 28 | 3 | 126,000 |
| BINDEL LUC VINCENT | 13 | 9 | 125,000 |
| LINDQWIST ERIK LARS ALLAN | 3 | 4 | 124,000 |
| CAMMILLERI GAETANO EMILIO | 4 | 1 | 124,000 |
| CHRISTEN SIBYLLE | 20 | 3 | 124,000 |
| DESMOND CORY DEAN | 28 | 1 | 124,000 |
| BOGUMIL ANDRE | 1 | 9 | 123,000 |
| STANCER DANIEL | 9 | 1 | 122,000 |
| VANHAESENDONCK LUC LILI E | 7 | 9 | 120,000 |
| VARANAVICIUS MARIUS | 10 | 7 | 120,000 |
| RAHUMAGI RUBEN | 17 | 3 | 120,000 |
| YUEN ANN-MARIE | 10 | 2 | 118,000 |
| KOURKA VLANTOUTS | 22 | 9 | 118,000 |
| FRANCHINI FRANCESCO | 3 | 6 | 116,000 |
| HUXLEY PHILLIP | 14 | 5 | 116,000 |
| PAULS SYLVAIN MARC | 25 | 8 | 115,000 |
| PALMA GIOVANNI EMANUELE | 31 | 6 | 115,000 |
| PIZZUTI STEFANO | 10 | 9 | 113,000 |
| HAWES GREGORY VINCENT | 20 | 1 | 112,000 |
| NASTASI EROS | 4 | 8 | 111,000 |
| DUPONT PETER GEORGES | 23 | 4 | 111,000 |
| FACEY APRIL | 6 | 5 | 109,000 |
| EMIG ARTHUR GERARD MICKEY | 3 | 3 | 108,000 |
| SPINELLI STEFANO | 14 | 3 | 108,000 |
| NOBELS TOM | 6 | 7 | 107,000 |
| HANSEN MOGENS VENDT | 7 | 1 | 106,000 |
| ERDEI ATTILA | 9 | 6 | 106,000 |
| LICATA ANTONIO | 11 | 1 | 106,000 |
| LYONS PAUL MICHAEL | 16 | 2 | 106,000 |
| STIMAC RINGO ROBERT JEAN | 8 | 9 | 105,000 |
| SANDEN ANDREAS | 14 | 6 | 105,000 |
| DECESARE SHAUN | 22 | 6 | 105,000 |
| MOLON WILLIAM GERARD ZINOL | 31 | 4 | 105,000 |
| LUBCZYNSKI RAFAL PIOTR | 6 | 1 | 104,000 |
| FRACZEK LUKASZ | 28 | 5 | 103,000 |
| SPAMPINATO GIULIO ANTONIO | 25 | 5 | 102,000 |
| COHEN SIMON | 2 | 4 | 101,000 |
| RITROVATO SALVATORE | 12 | 1 | 100,000 |
| WANG LU | 17 | 1 | 100,000 |
| DIDERIKSEN NIELSEN JACOB | 23 | 6 | 100,000 |
| NICA COSMIN-IONUT | 8 | 8 | 98,000 |
| DUNN TRACEY ANNE | 10 | 3 | 98,000 |
| ASLAN BASSEM JEAN | 24 | 9 | 98,000 |
| BRAJON HERVE CHRISTIAN SIMON | 25 | 3 | 98,000 |
| KALSTAD ERLEND TORESON | 18 | 9 | 93,000 |
| SUJETA TOMAS | 23 | 8 | 93,000 |
| ROSE CRAIG LEE | 26 | 8 | 93,000 |
| KILMARTIN LAPPIN DAVID LAURENCE | 27 | 8 | 92,000 |
| VAN DE POEL MICHAEL CHRISTOPHE F | 17 | 7 | 91,000 |
| ALESSI MAURO | 28 | 9 | 91,000 |
| ADAMOU CHRISTODOULOS | 22 | 2 | 90,000 |
| NYGAARD VEGARD | 25 | 1 | 89,000 |
| IOSUB DRAGOS-GABRIEL | 30 | 6 | 89,000 |
| JOHANSEN MORTEN | 3 | 8 | 88,000 |
| KOCZWARA MATEUSZ PAWEL | 29 | 1 | 85,000 |
| CECHOWSKI DYLAN RONALD THIERRY | 30 | 8 | 85,000 |
| WORTHINGTON-LEESE LEO DOMINIC | 31 | 9 | 84,000 |
| CLARKE JAMES MICHAEL | 30 | 4 | 83,000 |
| FERNANDEZ WIESEBROCK STEFAN | 5 | 7 | 82,000 |
| HEINEN BIANCA | 27 | 5 | 82,000 |
| BLANCO RAMIREZ JOSE GILBERTO | 11 | 6 | 80,000 |
| SERGI SABRINA LOUISE | 28 | 4 | 80,000 |
| DELAINE TOM, HENRY, JEAN | 13 | 7 | 79,000 |
| DI SALVO GIULIO | 7 | 4 | 78,000 |
| POPSPISIL MARCEL | 24 | 5 | 78,000 |
| JACOBSEN LASSE GROENQUIST | 26 | 5 | 78,000 |
| TACK RUBEN | 12 | 6 | 77,000 |
| NOSKE THOMAS | 22 | 3 | 76,000 |
| CAMMISULI MIRKO | 23 | 2 | 76,000 |
| VONALT JOACHIM | 28 | 2 | 74,000 |
| LUCARINI ALEXIS ENZO | 15 | 7 | 71,000 |
| DE VOS DANNY | 21 | 8 | 71,000 |
| DE GENNARO COSIMO | 2 | 5 | 70,000 |
| GROBACTY MATTHIAS | 5 | 5 | 70,000 |
| TSANAKAS KONSTANTINOS | 18 | 2 | 70,000 |
| ERCACLEOUS MARIOS | 14 | 7 | 69,000 |
| FREY MARTYN ANDREW | 15 | 6 | 68,000 |
| LETORT THIBAULT | 17 | 4 | 68,000 |
| STEIMER THEODOR JOSEF | 24 | 1 | 67,000 |
| GERMAIN NICOLAS PASCAL | 25 | 4 | 66,000 |
| GHILARDI ALFONSO | 25 | 7 | 66,000 |
| STOICA GABRIEL | 9 | 9 | 61,000 |
| BIJAOUI THEO | 17 | 2 | 60,000 |
| WHITE LEONARD | 21 | 9 | 56,000 |
| BLOMVALL MIKAEL ANDREAS | 14 | 9 | 54,000 |
| WENDT STEVEN | 22 | 7 | 54,000 |
| HORDAN REMY HENRI | 23 | 5 | 52,000 |
| HAMMOND MARTIN DANIEL | 8 | 4 | 51,000 |
| FICHERA GIANLUCA | 27 | 7 | 49,000 |
| BOGUSZ KAROL | 7 | 8 | 48,000 |
| KAICHENHOFEN PHILLIP | 25 | 2 | 41,000 |
| OLAVE QUESADA SAMUEL | 21 | 3 | 38,000 |
| ALVETJARN LARS STEFAN | 13 | 8 | 37,000 |
| SIMPSON MELANIE JANE | 24 | 8 | 36,000 |
| LAUFERSWEILER PETER BERNHARDT | 26 | 3 | 33,000 |
| NOTHOFER HANS JOSEF | 22 | 5 | 31,000 |
| TUCZYNSKI PIOTR | 3 | 7 | 30,000 |
| WAYNE CAROLYN | 16 | 8 | 27,000 |
| GECI ENDRIT | 8 | 3 | 25,000 |
PokerDeals Live Reporting will be on hand today reporting on Day 2 of this awesome Grand Event. You’ll also catch our Day 1e and 1f recaps as well as some coverage of the Ladies First event going out today. If you’d like to see more photos and videos of play, please check out our PokerDeals Facebook Page!
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Malta Poker Festival Grand Event Day 2 Recap
Sunday 1st May saw an epic day of poker action at the Malta Poker Festival Grand Event as 273 became just 18 after a mammoth day of play here at the Portomaso Casino. A strong cohort of 73 PokerDeals patched players competing in the PokerDeals Last Longer made it to Day 2 . These have surprisingly been cut down to just two players standing , vying for who will win the free ticket to the next Malta Poker Festival Grand Event: Robert Lim & Federico Pizzazz They are also of course, more importantly, competing for some serious payouts, at the top of the pile is the glory prize itself, 1st place , rewarding €71,000 and of course, the Malta Poker Festival trophy ! Pawel Zawadowicz is the man to catch right now, leading by over 2 million chips with his stack of 7,820,000 in chips. Let's check in on how our PokerDeals Last Longer players and others were doing in the late-night action. We dropped in on the final six tables as they were rapidly slashed back to just three, across the late hours of Day 2 , and it didn't take long for us to witness some serious brutality. In fact we counted at least 17 eliminations across less than 90 minutes of play, in the final field of 45 players. That's pretty rapid, even for a Texas Hold'em tournament. Some of these spots were simply unavoidable of course, just your classic coolers. For a case in point we could look at the elimination of Cosimo de Gennaro at the hands of Jasper Van Moorsel . A simple matter of TT running into AA preflop, Big Blind vs. Button . Nothing to be done about it, and when the board ran out 9♠8 ♥ 3 ♥ 7♠ K ♦ there was no shame in this Italian's walk from the arena. Cosimo de Gennaro Another all-in hand we bore witness to featured the Daniel Lakerveid being despatched by PokerDeals Last Longer competitor Federico Cirillo , when Lakerveid's BB hand K ♥ 6 ♥ failed to get there all-in against Cirillo's K♠J♣ from the Button . Federico Cirillo Another all-in shove from a short stack was Nicolaj D'Antoni's K ♦ 7 ♦ getting it in against the A♠4♠ of the seemingly indestructible Pawel Zawadowicz , the board running out a hopeless 9♣J ♥ Q ♥ 6 ♦ 9 ♥ to secure Zawadowicz the win with just Ace high. Pawel Zawadowicz But there was worse to come, at least for PokerDeals patched player Paul Morris , who had the spot players live (and die) for, A ♥ A♣ in the Big Blind facing action when short-stacked. Who knows, he might have flatted against one, but when Jordan Dumas opens Cutoff and James Clarke decides to come along from the Small Blind , and you're sitting on well under 15bbs , a jam seems very acceptable, and that's just what Morris did. Paul Morris After consideration Dumas decided to stick around with Q♣J♣ , Clarke got out the way and the flop thundered down around Morris' head, 8 ♥ J♠J ♦ . The turn and river had nothing more to offer Morris as they fell an irrelevant 5 and 7 of ♠s . It's rough when you've grinded for days to get there, but it's all part of this game we love, and this is why we are in it for the long run! One other hand of note came from canny players Jason Shellum and Mantas Petrauskas as they negotiated a 3 ♥ 4♣6♠ 3 ♦ Q ♦ board. Petrauskas had bet all the way, and he didn't let up on the river, putting Shellum to a major question with his river bet of 600k . Shellum went deep into the tank. He was down there a while, he may have had an oxygen mask on. Eventually someone at the table called time on Shellum , and it was during that final minute of decision-making that he found the call, with, wait for it… AJ offsuit . And he was good, Petrauskas quickly mucking. "A hero call!” someone nearby remarked to him. "A hero read!” was his quick reply. We literally couldn't be more excited for Day 3 , the final day of this Grand Event today kicking off at 2pm, and a fascinating end to this highly competitive Grand Event . We'll have more coverage of the day coming out this evening on our PokerDeals Live Reporting page. Also if you'd like to see even more videos, photos and social interaction covering the event, please do join us on our PokerDeals Facebook Page !
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18 Remain In the Malta Poker Festival Grand Event: Day 3 Chip Counts
Just 18 players remain standing at the end of this long Day 2 in the Malta Poker Festival Grand Event , playing out 12 levels across the day and seeing numerous poker pros and recreational players alike bite the dust. The largest stack leading the field for going into Day 3 is Polish player Pawel Zawadowicz who by the end of the night had put together an impressive stack of 7,820,000 , over 2 million ahead of the next player in the leaderboard. Only two contenders for the PokerDeals Last Longer promotion now remain standing out of the remaining 18, and these are Robert Lim from the United Kingdom, working a stack of 2,020,000 chips, and Italian Federico Petruzzelli , sitting on 2,385,000 . With blinds ending for Day 2 at an eye-watering 40k/80k with an 80k BB ante , a mere 4.5bbs currently separate these players. Who will capture the free ticket for the next Malta Poker Festival Grand Event , and who will be left winning the runner-up prize of an awesome PokerDeals hoodie? Only Day 3 will tell, and we'll also find out who will win the first prize in this Grand Event, an awesome €71,000 ! Here is the full seat draw for Day 2 of the Malta Poker Festival Grand Event: Malta Poker Festival Grand Event Day 3 Chipcount Entries: 1.014 Players left: 18 PLAYER CHIPCOUNT 1 ZAWADOWICZ PAWEL 7,820,000 2 KANE STEPHEN OLIVER 5,365,000 3 DA SILVA CHRISTOPHER 4,865,000 4 NINIS GEORGIOS 4,360,000 5 CLARKE JAMES MICHAEL 3,190,000 6 VAN MOORSEL JASPER ARTHUR 3,155,000 7 LAKERVEID DANIEL M 2,855,000 8 PETRAUSKAS MANTAS 2,425,000 9 PETRUZZELLI FEDERICO 2,385,000 10 LIM ROBERT JR CABRAL 2,020,000 11 FRENCH DOMINICK LEON 1,750,000 12 SIMON GYORGI 1,685,000 13 CHEUNG HO TIEN 1,670,000 14 TUCZYNSKI PIOTR 1,595,000 15 DUMAS JORDAN BERRAND MANUEL 1,510,000 16 IOSUB DRAGOS-GABRIEL 1,400,000 17 LANGFIELDT NICOLAY 1,370,000 18 MUSACCHIA MARIO 1,350,000 PokerDeals Live Reporting will be covering the latest as we head into the Final Day of this Grand Event . We also put up a ton more photos and videos of the event, over on our PokerDeals Facebook Page !
Malta Poker Festival Grand Event Day 2 Updates
273 players returned to Day 2 of the Malta Poker Festival Grand Event today, all aimed at that final table, but all also aware of the bubble, with 151 players to be paid in this one. The event has seen a record 1,019 entrants, building a prize pool of over €480k, with a first prize of €71,000 to play for. Nemo Israel returns with the biggest stack, with no-one else across the six Day 1 flights able to amass the monster stack of 667k which he built on Day 1b. PokerDeals Last Longer participants were out in force, with 76 of the remaining players on Day 2 sporting PokerDeals patches. Blinds recommenced at 2,500/5,000 with a 5,000 BB ante , as the game kicked off at 2pm today. We took a tour of the poker room as the all-important bubble approached, with key hands going down left, right and centre. With just a handful of players left to be eliminated before the minimum cash of €1,100 kicked in, no-one wanted to go home now. Nonetheless, stacks were getting short, tempers arguably shorter, and the all-ins were coming thick and fast. After all, sometimes you just have to get it in! Heading into a short break one table remained running long into the 15-minute break. At it sat two players, side by side, seats two and three, alone with their thoughts, their chips and their dealer. These two had come into the pot as UTG and UTG+1 , in a 3bet pot. Now the whole board was out there, 4♠T♠4 ♦ , T ♥ , 2 ♥ , PokerDeals patch-wearer Stavros Tsakas had bet 70k and Gregory Luttke-Grech was deep in the tank. After several minutes he put his opponent all in. Now it was Tsakas' turn to tank, which he did for what felt like an age, before finally and clearly reluctantly folding. Leaping up to take the last minutes of his short break, Luttke-Grech gleefully tabled K ♦ Q ♥ for a stone-cold bluff. Stavros Tsakas Robert Lim, who came into Day 2 as the PokerDeals Last Longer participant with the biggest stack, was busy getting it in good against his opponents when we passed by. This time it really helped the whole field, as he casually eliminated Romain Nardin with his A ♥ K ♦ against Nardin's A ♦ Q♠, remarking, "I'm running good at the moment, lots of big hands!". Robert Lim Whilst another all-in went the way of the short stack, with Andras Halasi doubling with his A♣Q♠ against Yohann Girondin's K♣K ♥ when an Ace spiked the turn, over on an adjacent table an even more eye-popping hand was taking place, albeit not all-in. In a 550k pot with the board reading 3♠K ♦ 7♠ K♣ 2 ♦ , Paul Morris moved all-in on the river, for his last 220k . The Button, none other than Luttke-Grech once again, was deep in the tank. With dozens of staff, media and spectators who had drifted over during hand-for-hand observing, he talked himself into the call. The bad news came fast - Morris tabled A ♥ A♠ . Luttke-Grech mucked, but not before flashing his cards. Some swear he held A8o , but this reporter saw A3o , a Hero call either way! Paul Morris Minutes later there was much more drama at the same table. This time it was Stavros Tsakas again but up against Soner Vanelderen. The players got it in preflop, with things looking tame enough, with both tabling AK suited, Tsakas with diamonds, Vanelderen in spades. The flop brought both players a straight with T♠Q ♥ J ♦ , but the turn and river were to prove cruel , bringing as they did the 3♠ and then the killer for Tsakas , the 4♠ , eliciting a collective gasp from the room. A brutal way to exit indeed, and with just one more left to go out before the money. Soner Vanelderen The final hand was not far off, either. On a board of 5 ♥ 3♣8♠ Terje Bremseth, a well-known, affable and friendly member of the live poker scene, was all-in in the Cutoff , and he was called, by Ridvan Kilincaslan . Ridvan Kilincaslan Terje Bremseth tabled A♣K♠ , Kilincaslan replied by turning over 6♠6♣ and the T♣, 3♠ runout was no help to Bremseth who exited this one as the bubble boy. We're sure we'll see him smiling in many another live poker event, however! Terje Bremseth We'll be putting out a recap tomorrow at PokerDeals Live Reporting covering all the late-game action in this huge Day 2 . Also be sure to hit up the PokerDeals Facebook page for more coverage, video footage, and lots more photos of the day's action! Some images courtesy of MaltaPokerFestival.com
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