613 Entries an Tag 1C schrauben beim € 550 Grand Event des Malta Poker Festivals auf 1.366 hoch und so dürfen sich die Veranstalter und das Portomaso Casino über eine mehr als gelungene Premiere freuen. Die € 500.000 Preispool Garantie wurde klar übertroffen.
Der dritte Flight war der größte und auch viele deutschsprachige Spieler waren am Start. So versuchten Thomas Lamatsch, Jona Wilmsmann, Murat Tülek, Stevie Pollak, Anton Morgenstern, Andreas Klatt, Steffi Quint, Sascha Manns, Nico Koop, Robert Tahirovic und viele mehr ihr Glück. Auch Andreas Hoivold, Tim O’Keefe, Andy Hills und einige mehr waren mit dabei.
Für das Buy-In gab es auch dieses Mal wieder 25.000 Chips und 14 Levels à 45 Minuten galt es zu überstehen. Es wurde kräftig ausgesiebt und von den 613 Entries kamen nur 118 heil durch den Tag. Die Führung sicherte sich der Belgier Laurens Van De Sype mit 334.500 Chips. Die Counts liegen nicht vollständig vor, nur ein paar wenige. Dort sind auf jeden Fall Murat Tülek und Jona Wilmsmann als Big Stacks mit dabei.
262 Spieler starten heute bei den Blinds 2k/4k, Ante 500 in Tag 2. Zum Start des Tages gibt es dann auch die Payouts. Die Coverage findet Ihr wieder unter pokernews.com, alles weitere zum Festival unter themaltapokerfestival.com.
Redraw Tag 2:
| Player | Chip Count | Big Blinds | Table | Seat |
| Ondrej Jakubcik | 462.000 | 116 | 16 | 3 |
| Laurens Van De Sype | 334.500 | 84 | 14 | 3 |
| Domenico Gala | 329.000 | 82 | 4 | 3 |
| Emanuele Napolitano | 320.500 | 80 | 29 | 7 |
| Claudio Pagano | 317.000 | 79 | 4 | 6 |
| Serdar Demircan | 300.000 | 75 | 14 | 2 |
| Yotam Bar-Yosef | 293.000 | 73 | 9 | 4 |
| Michael Ibba | 292.000 | 73 | 29 | 6 |
| Vytenis Salickas | 289.000 | 72 | 10 | 2 |
| Israel Avraham | 286.000 | 72 | 2 | 4 |
| Nicolaj D’Antoni | 272.000 | 68 | 10 | 7 |
| Monika Zukowicz | 268.500 | 67 | 16 | 5 |
| Phil Pearson | 264.500 | 66 | 26 | 1 |
| Zion Shamay | 260.000 | 65 | 17 | 5 |
| Giovanni Piccione | 259.000 | 65 | 13 | 2 |
| Alessandro Pichierri | 257.000 | 64 | 21 | 4 |
| Tim O’Keefe | 255.500 | 64 | 11 | 6 |
| Nicolas Proust | 255.000 | 64 | 26 | 2 |
| Andy Hills | 254.000 | 64 | 22 | 2 |
| Idan Raz | 253.000 | 63 | 12 | 3 |
| Tobby Drimer | 251.500 | 63 | 22 | 7 |
| Ivan Kirilov | 249.500 | 62 | 27 | 8 |
| Borge Dypvik | 241.500 | 60 | 13 | 4 |
| David Nir | 232.000 | 58 | 18 | 3 |
| Maurizio Fisicaro | 229.500 | 57 | 25 | 5 |
| John Forsman | 229.000 | 57 | 21 | 5 |
| Tzafrir Zanzuri | 227.500 | 57 | 13 | 6 |
| Luigi D’Alterio | 226.500 | 57 | 24 | 3 |
| Jona Wilsmsmann | 226.000 | 57 | 3 | 1 |
| Diego Rosano | 223.500 | 56 | 14 | 7 |
| Emanuele Onnis | 222.500 | 56 | 33 | 7 |
| Nadav Lipszyc | 222.000 | 56 | 3 | 4 |
| Jostein Grodum | 216.500 | 54 | 6 | 6 |
| Murat Tulek | 216.000 | 54 | 9 | 7 |
| Giovanni Salvatore | 216.000 | 54 | 23 | 8 |
| William Fogarty | 211.000 | 53 | 12 | 4 |
| Eivind Dahle | 209.500 | 52 | 9 | 6 |
| Marko Cosic | 209.000 | 52 | 29 | 1 |
| Matthew Marcus | 209.000 | 52 | 28 | 8 |
| Fares Shehadeh | 208.500 | 52 | 5 | 1 |
| Alessandro Furneri | 207.000 | 52 | 13 | 1 |
| Salvatore Ritrovato | 204.500 | 51 | 22 | 6 |
| Alessandro Siena | 203.000 | 51 | 16 | 1 |
| Lior Afllalo | 202.500 | 51 | 25 | 4 |
| Kashi Kambiz | 200.500 | 50 | 12 | 2 |
| Giuseppe Di Mauro | 200.000 | 50 | 3 | 6 |
| Michal Wilczynski | 200.000 | 50 | 3 | 2 |
| Gary Banks | 199.500 | 50 | 18 | 8 |
| Traian Bostan | 191.500 | 48 | 22 | 1 |
| Federico Petruzzelli | 191.500 | 48 | 30 | 6 |
| Markus Alex | 191.000 | 48 | 17 | 4 |
| Stuart Bell | 191.000 | 48 | 9 | 2 |
| Maurizio Saieva | 190.000 | 48 | 6 | 2 |
| Bulent Sahin | 187.500 | 47 | 6 | 1 |
| Espen Saltnes | 187.500 | 47 | 22 | 5 |
| Frederik Klein | 184.500 | 46 | 32 | 6 |
| Rafal Lubczynski | 184.000 | 46 | 14 | 6 |
| Lukas Albrechtsen-Bittner | 181.500 | 45 | 12 | 8 |
| Daragh Davey | 180.000 | 45 | 10 | 3 |
| Dario Amato | 178.500 | 45 | 28 | 3 |
| Andrea Masenadore | 178.000 | 45 | 13 | 3 |
| Simon Goldthorpe | 177.000 | 44 | 27 | 1 |
| Pedro Monteiro | 175.000 | 44 | 10 | 1 |
| Giovanna Dimartino | 174.500 | 44 | 22 | 8 |
| Alex Brand | 173.500 | 43 | 3 | 8 |
| Pasquale Gregorio | 173.500 | 43 | 25 | 6 |
| Joe McIlvenny | 171.500 | 43 | 4 | 2 |
| Giuseppe Ruocco | 171.000 | 43 | 26 | 7 |
| Willy Flora | 169.500 | 42 | 10 | 6 |
| Leny Baha | 167.000 | 42 | 13 | 8 |
| Jonas Johansson | 165.000 | 41 | 29 | 4 |
| Jonas Broden | 164.500 | 41 | 4 | 7 |
| Michal Wisniewski | 163.500 | 41 | 17 | 6 |
| Yoav Scheiman | 162.500 | 41 | 18 | 2 |
| Nicholas Banks | 159.500 | 40 | 19 | 4 |
| Simon Zaki | 158.500 | 40 | 30 | 5 |
| Gabriele Re | 158.000 | 40 | 26 | 6 |
| Erik Bjordal | 157.500 | 39 | 32 | 1 |
| Luca Caravaglio | 156.500 | 39 | 7 | 7 |
| Elio Caferro | 155.000 | 39 | 1 | 5 |
| Daniel Reeves | 154.000 | 39 | 19 | 6 |
| Christoph Friess | 152.000 | 38 | 32 | 4 |
| Pascal Borkowski | 150.500 | 38 | 7 | 5 |
| Sergio Benso | 150.000 | 38 | 16 | 4 |
| Sebastian Benta | 150.000 | 38 | 21 | 8 |
| Ambroise De La Gorce | 150.000 | 38 | 15 | 8 |
| Cristian Dragomir | 150.000 | 38 | 2 | 1 |
| Haim Hotzen | 149.000 | 37 | 23 | 5 |
| Netzer Shoshani | 147.000 | 37 | 26 | 4 |
| Piero Compagnoni | 145.000 | 36 | 33 | 4 |
| Adda Dor | 144.500 | 36 | 19 | 7 |
| Omri Zaidman | 143.500 | 36 | 24 | 7 |
| Yossi Matok | 143.000 | 36 | 30 | 4 |
| Giovanni Grella | 142.500 | 36 | 5 | 3 |
| Oscar Pettersson | 140.000 | 35 | 23 | 6 |
| Karl Andersson | 139.500 | 35 | 32 | 3 |
| Shimon Banaim | 139.000 | 35 | 30 | 2 |
| Clint Sammut | 139.000 | 35 | 1 | 7 |
| Andrea Vinci | 138.500 | 35 | 9 | 5 |
| Andrea Stellato | 136.500 | 34 | 8 | 1 |
| Howard Dave | 134.000 | 34 | 9 | 3 |
| Massimiliano Rosi | 134.000 | 34 | 9 | 8 |
| Barry Smyth | 133.000 | 33 | 18 | 1 |
| Francesco Cortorillo | 132.000 | 33 | 20 | 8 |
| Martijn Kingma | 132.000 | 33 | 13 | 5 |
| Aladin Mrkaljevic | 132.000 | 33 | 5 | 4 |
| Craig Simpson | 131.500 | 33 | 33 | 2 |
| Jenny Israel | 130.500 | 33 | 8 | 4 |
| Benjamin Bashforth | 130.000 | 33 | 28 | 1 |
| Alfonso Palmisano | 130.000 | 33 | 20 | 7 |
| Mickael Thomas | 128.500 | 32 | 5 | 6 |
| David Shimon | 128.000 | 32 | 21 | 3 |
| William Holderness | 128.000 | 32 | 24 | 1 |
| Michel Vat | 127.000 | 32 | 31 | 8 |
| Gaetano Brignone | 126.500 | 32 | 23 | 3 |
| Sture Busch | 124.000 | 31 | 32 | 7 |
| Ivica Blazevic | 123.000 | 31 | 4 | 1 |
| Linda Nguyen | 122.500 | 31 | 17 | 2 |
| Eyal Bensimhon | 122.000 | 31 | 10 | 4 |
| Nissim Saad | 120.500 | 30 | 25 | 2 |
| Giuseppe Di Bella | 119.500 | 30 | 5 | 8 |
| Maurizio Romano | 119.000 | 30 | 10 | 5 |
| Fabio Bersacchi | 118.500 | 30 | 23 | 4 |
| Robert Tahirovic | 118.000 | 30 | 4 | 8 |
| Adam Davies | 116.500 | 29 | 11 | 1 |
| Joseph Stoyles | 116.500 | 29 | 6 | 5 |
| Karl Strandberg | 116.500 | 29 | 1 | 3 |
| Matteo Impagliatelli | 116.000 | 29 | 16 | 6 |
| Potito Martire | 116.000 | 29 | 1 | 8 |
| Andre Henning | 115.000 | 29 | 19 | 2 |
| Christian Schneider | 114.500 | 29 | 7 | 2 |
| Mark Vella | 114.500 | 29 | 21 | 7 |
| Katharine Arnsby | 114.000 | 29 | 33 | 5 |
| Muhamet Perati | 113.500 | 28 | 21 | 1 |
| Thomas Emter | 112.000 | 28 | 33 | 6 |
| Dmitry Pavlov | 112.000 | 28 | 31 | 4 |
| Daniele Sacchi | 112.000 | 28 | 24 | 4 |
| Brynja Sassoon | 111.000 | 28 | 6 | 8 |
| Alfonso Amendola | 110.000 | 28 | 2 | 8 |
| Shanmugasunqapam Jeyamohan | 109.500 | 27 | 33 | 8 |
| Yanko Krushkov | 109.500 | 27 | 12 | 1 |
| Flaviano Cammisuli | 109.000 | 27 | 28 | 6 |
| Idan Levy | 108.000 | 27 | 3 | 5 |
| James Clark | 107.500 | 27 | 32 | 5 |
| Arunas Garunkstis | 107.500 | 27 | 31 | 3 |
| Ofer Golko | 107.000 | 27 | 31 | 2 |
| Uri Gilboa | 106.500 | 27 | 30 | 3 |
| Hwee Hua Loh | 105.000 | 26 | 6 | 3 |
| Gil Zemer | 104.500 | 26 | 17 | 1 |
| Enrico Grella | 103.300 | 26 | 23 | 1 |
| Eyal Shlomo Pearl | 103.000 | 26 | 3 | 7 |
| Fabian Gumz | 102.500 | 26 | 23 | 2 |
| Johan Lindqvist | 101.000 | 25 | 15 | 2 |
| William Mancini | 101.000 | 25 | 12 | 7 |
| Ivan Tripkovic | 101.000 | 25 | 24 | 6 |
| Thomas Waldow | 101.000 | 25 | 20 | 3 |
| Geir Berland | 100.000 | 25 | 15 | 5 |
| Michael Jesse | 100.000 | 25 | 23 | 7 |
| Giovanni Petroni | 100.000 | 25 | 19 | 8 |
| Andre Scerri | 100.000 | 25 | 18 | 6 |
| Mor Lybovich | 99.100 | 25 | 7 | 6 |
| Paul Romain | 98.000 | 25 | 16 | 8 |
| Norris Harvey | 97.500 | 24 | 27 | 4 |
| Kalle Gasstorp | 96.500 | 24 | 31 | 7 |
| Isvi Cohen | 96.000 | 24 | 11 | 5 |
| Samuel Goje | 92.500 | 23 | 25 | 7 |
| Shmuel Madar | 92.000 | 23 | 5 | 2 |
| Fabrizio Privetera | 92.000 | 23 | 20 | 4 |
| Lars Berglund | 91.500 | 23 | 15 | 7 |
| Chen Keren | 91.000 | 23 | 1 | 1 |
| Avi Zur | 91.000 | 23 | 14 | 8 |
| Claudine Chaaya | 90.500 | 23 | 17 | 8 |
| Fabio Assennato | 90.500 | 23 | 2 | 3 |
| Steven Iglesias | 89.500 | 22 | 11 | 3 |
| Kornelius Lien | 89.500 | 22 | 8 | 7 |
| Ronny Voth | 89.500 | 22 | 11 | 4 |
| Christopher Convery | 88.500 | 22 | 9 | 1 |
| Tsvetelina Pavlova | 88.500 | 22 | 29 | 3 |
| Petter Kristiansen | 87.000 | 22 | 17 | 7 |
| Paolo Elmo | 86.500 | 22 | 20 | 5 |
| Itay Itzhaky | 86.500 | 22 | 18 | 7 |
| Espen Uhlen Jorstad | 85.500 | 21 | 27 | 3 |
| Massimiliano Santangelo | 85.000 | 21 | 25 | 1 |
| Roy Even | 84.500 | 21 | 2 | 7 |
| Thomas Lamatsch | 84.500 | 21 | 15 | 6 |
| Andrea Sebastiani | 84.500 | 21 | 19 | 5 |
| Marco Marinacci | 84.000 | 21 | 26 | 8 |
| Alessio Lucciarini | 83.500 | 21 | 18 | 4 |
| Steponas Venckus | 83.500 | 21 | 31 | 6 |
| Karl Ellingsson | 83.000 | 21 | 27 | 7 |
| Sandor Leitenroth | 83.000 | 21 | 28 | 7 |
| Abi Naji | 83.000 | 21 | 8 | 5 |
| Ronald de Jong | 82.000 | 21 | 29 | 5 |
| Shimon Hagay | 82.000 | 21 | 8 | 3 |
| Andre Grech | 81.500 | 20 | 20 | 2 |
| Zahi Bahar | 80.000 | 20 | 8 | 2 |
| Giuseppe Di Pietro | 80.000 | 20 | 5 | 7 |
| Simon Underdal | 78.700 | 20 | 7 | 8 |
| Colin Lovelock | 77.000 | 19 | 11 | 8 |
| Giuseppe Palmisano | 77.000 | 19 | 14 | 4 |
| Stanislav Zegal | 77.000 | 19 | 16 | 7 |
| Sergio Castelluccio | 76.500 | 19 | 11 | 2 |
| Rafal Skrzypnik | 76.500 | 19 | 22 | 4 |
| Colin Good | 76.000 | 19 | 17 | 3 |
| Rob Mulder | 76.000 | 19 | 8 | 6 |
| Lukas Podzemsky | 76.000 | 19 | 20 | 1 |
| Domenico Tortomasi | 76.000 | 19 | 6 | 4 |
| Chen Carmin | 75.000 | 19 | 4 | 4 |
| Francesco Reina | 74.000 | 19 | 28 | 2 |
| Paris Fernandez | 72.000 | 18 | 16 | 2 |
| Ziv Noy | 72.000 | 18 | 7 | 4 |
| Jakub Chludzinski | 70.000 | 18 | 11 | 7 |
| Vito Geruzzi | 69.000 | 17 | 5 | 5 |
| Giuseppe Passalacqua | 69.000 | 17 | 30 | 8 |
| Marcus Borg | 68.500 | 17 | 19 | 1 |
| Zbigniew Dolzblasz | 68.500 | 17 | 26 | 3 |
| Andrew Corbin | 68.000 | 17 | 30 | 7 |
| Ofer Wexler | 68.000 | 17 | 15 | 3 |
| Anar Brave | 67.500 | 17 | 29 | 2 |
| Santina Spedalieri | 67.000 | 17 | 14 | 1 |
| Mats Palm | 66.500 | 17 | 2 | 6 |
| Joao De Brito Goncalves | 65.500 | 16 | 13 | 7 |
| Daniele Grasso | 65.500 | 16 | 26 | 5 |
| Stephan Kalhamer | 65.000 | 16 | 32 | 8 |
| Giovanni Palma | 65.000 | 16 | 25 | 3 |
| Ilana Belski | 64.000 | 16 | 29 | 8 |
| Mark Adams | 62.500 | 16 | 15 | 1 |
| Daniel Lakerveid | 62.000 | 16 | 28 | 4 |
| Espen Engevik | 61.500 | 15 | 7 | 3 |
| Leonardo Parmiggiani | 61.500 | 15 | 28 | 5 |
| Carl Redemo | 61.500 | 15 | 15 | 4 |
| David Irwin | 61.000 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Ignazio Ciccarello | 59.000 | 15 | 27 | 2 |
| David Carrasco | 57.500 | 14 | 20 | 6 |
| Nicko Christensen | 56.000 | 14 | 8 | 8 |
| Johan Sundqvist | 56.000 | 14 | 12 | 5 |
| MaximeCanevet | 55.000 | 14 | 14 | 5 |
| Salvatore Prado | 54.000 | 14 | 18 | 5 |
| Jo Fisher | 53.500 | 13 | 27 | 6 |
| Luca Moschitta | 53.500 | 13 | 2 | 5 |
| Vladimir Jefimov | 52.500 | 13 | 1 | 2 |
| Claudio Pinazzo | 52.500 | 13 | 12 | 6 |
| Mikko Vaisanen | 52.500 | 13 | 24 | 8 |
| Reinhard Meusburger | 51.500 | 13 | 22 | 3 |
| Federico Montealegre | 49.500 | 12 | 2 | 2 |
| Haim Gabso | 47.000 | 12 | 21 | 6 |
| Stefan Deutsch | 46.500 | 12 | 25 | 8 |
| Kenneth Johansen | 44.000 | 11 | 1 | 4 |
| Daiva Byrne | 43.500 | 11 | 6 | 7 |
| Marcin Puczylowski | 43.500 | 11 | 4 | 5 |
| Dario Comitini | 42.500 | 11 | 7 | 1 |
| Thomas Lind | 42.500 | 11 | 19 | 3 |
| Daniel Stacey | 41.500 | 10 | 24 | 2 |
| Giulio Di Salvo | 37.500 | 9 | 27 | 5 |
| Timmy Passenier | 37.000 | 9 | 24 | 5 |
| Miles Saacks | 35.500 | 9 | 33 | 3 |
| Pawel Zawadowicz | 31.000 | 8 | 3 | 3 |
| Itai Wisssotzky | 28.000 | 7 | 21 | 2 |
| Linda Tuiten | 22.500 | 6 | 31 | 5 |
| Jonathan Walker | 8.600 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
