The Party Poker MILLIONS Malta Festival is now in complete swing, with 3 days of side occasions finished and 4 prizes granted. today sees the start of the EUR3,000 MILLIONS centerpiece, day 2 of the Hydra High Roller and the resumption of beginning days for the $1m Grand Prix. If that’s inadequate, there’s likewise a EUR330 Omaha and a couple more satellites to the Grand Prix!
Here’s the schedule these days’s action
Start Time |
Occasion # |
Event |
Buy-In |
15:00 |
# 17 |
Grand Prix Hyper Turbo Satellite to occasion # 3 |
EUR60+EUR10 |
15:00 |
# 13 |
Hydra Entertainment High Roller Day 2 |
EUR5,000+EUR300 |
18:00 |
# 3c |
Grand Prix $1m GTD Day 1c |
EUR500+EUR50 |
18:00 |
# 18 |
Omaha Single Day Event |
EUR300+EUR30 |
21:00 |
# 19 |
MILLIONS Day 1A |
EUR500+EUR50 |
21:00 |
# 20 |
Grand Prix Satellite to occasion # 3 |
EUR60+EUR10 |
Hydra High Roller Day 1 Completed
The EUR5,300 Hydra Entertainment High Roller started on Wednesday with 39 gamers having actually gotten in up until now. When play ended a little after midnight there were 31 gamers left in contention, with the Dutch duo of Teun Mulder and Michel Molenaar blazing a trail. Molenaar won the incredibly high-stakes gambler occasion at the Malta Poker Festival previously this year and will be intending to duplicate that task, which will be a high job, as its a high quality field with lots of knowledgeable high stakes gamers put together. These consist of numerous bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche from Germany, Spain’s Leo Margets, Belgian Bart Lybaert and France’s Johan “YoH ViraL” Gilbert. Celebration Poker Team Pro Matt Staples likewise went into the occasion however was among the regrettable 8 gamers to strike the rail prior to completion of the day.
Michael Molenaar chases after a more title in Malta Late registration was still open up until the start of day 2, at 3pm and by the time they had actually mixed up and began dealing, the field had actually grown to 44, producing a reward swimming pool of EUR200,000!
Over night chip counts from the Hydra Entertainment High Roller
Gamer |
Citizenship |
Chip Count |
Teun Mulder |
Dutch |
140,000 |
Michel Molenaar |
Dutch |
105,000 |
Aurelien Russo |
French |
99,400 |
Alessandro Pichierri |
Italian |
95,400 |
Alex Peffly |
English |
94,000 |
Orestis Kanakopoulos |
Greek |
88,700 |
Bart Lybaert |
Belgian |
85,000 |
Leo Margets |
Spanish |
76,000 |
Stanislav Zegal |
German |
69,200 |
Farid Jattin |
Colombian |
68,800 |
Alex Van Der Swaluw |
Dutch |
64,400 |
Jonathan Abdellatif |
Belgian |
64,000 |
Thomas Clack |
English |
62,100 |
Koen Meutstege |
Dutch |
49,200 |
Fausto Tantillo |
Italian |
47,500 |
Fabio Peluso |
Italian |
44,100 |
Grigoriy Rodin |
Russian |
42,700 |
Raoul Van Wersch |
Dutch |
42,600 |
Thomas Eychenne |
French |
41,500 |
Ioannis Angelou-Konstas |
Greek |
35,800 |
Scott Wellenbach |
Canadian |
30,200 |
Ivan Balzano |
Brazilian |
28,600 |
Dominik Nitsche |
German |
20,000 |
Candido Gabriele Cappiello |
Italian |
17,600 |
Kamil Sokol |
Czech |
17,200 |
Johan “YoH ViraL” Guilbert |
French |
16,500 |
Jakub Wojtas |
German |
11,300 |
Italian Party
The other day’s side occasion was the EUR130+EUR20 NLH Italian Party, which to be reasonable was a more International affair than strictly Italian. Just one Italian gamer Mattia Ride enhanced the last table, completing in 6th location. It was a long extracted competition that lastly reached its conclusion at 6am, when Germany’s Philipp Kampf beat Maltese gamer Marc Schembri to declare the title, the prize and EUR6,332 for his efforts. In overall 238 gamers got in, producing a reward swimming pool of simply under EUR30k.
Celebration Poker MILLIONS Malta 2023 — # 14 EUR130 + EUR20 NLH Italian Party |
Position |
Gamer |
Citizenship |
Reward |
1 |
Philipp Kampf |
German |
EUR6,332 |
2 |
Marc Schembri |
Maltese |
EUR4,600 |
3 |
Benjamin Foulgot |
French |
EUR3,490 |
4 |
Scott Fingland |
Canadian |
EUR2,600 |
5 |
Svajunas Seduikis |
Lithuanian |
EUR1,800 |
6 |
Mattia Ridi |
Italian |
EUR1,490 |
7 |
Aleksander Georgiev |
Bulgarian |
EUR1,190 |
8 |
Pagareckas Mindaugas |
Lithuanian |
EUR890 |
9 |
Raymond Bellante |
Maltese |
EUR600 |
10 |
Brian Calleja |
Maltese |
EUR520 |
11 |
John Kruljac |
Australian |
EUR520 |
12 |
Mark Adams |
English |
EUR520 |
13 |
Gary Armstrong |
Scotland |
EUR440 |
14 |
Karl Gialanze |
Maltese |
EUR440 |
15 |
Sebastian Gotthardt |
German |
EUR440 |
16 |
Kamil Skawinski |
Polish |
EUR360 |
17 |
Guiseppe Schiraldi |
Italian |
EUR360 |
18 |
Jozsef Fauszt |
Hungarian |
EUR360 |
19 |
Mityok Erno |
Hungarian |
EUR360 |
20 |
Vito Cuscito |
Italian |
EUR360 |
21 |
Shota Burjandaze |
Georgia |
EUR290 |
22 |
Susta Marco |
Italian |
EUR290 |
23 |
Neil Barron |
English |
EUR290 |
24 |
Mateusz Kozuch |
Polish |
EUR290 |
25 |
Adam Tomasson |
Sweden |
EUR290 |
26 |
Yohann Girondin |
France |
EUR290 |
27 |
Alfredo Cuti |
Italian |
EUR290 |
Overall Entries |
226 |
|
EUR29,702.00 |
Special Players |
164 |
|
|
Re-entries |
62 |
|
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The complete schedule of occasions can be discovered here
Pictures from the occasion can be discovered here
Photography by Jean Marc Zerafa
Jonathan Raab
Celebration Poker MILLIONS Malta Media Coordinator