The floor stopped the clock with a little more than six minutes left on Day 1c to announce the final three hands of the evening.
After three more hands are dealt at each table, surviving players will bag and tag their stacks into Sunday’s Day 2.
Stay tuned for the final chip counts of Day 1c of the 2023 Malta Poker Festival Autumn Edition €550 Main Event powered by the Unibet DeepStack Open at Portomaso Casino.
“We are thrilled to announce Main Event Travel as the Official Travel Partner of The Malta Poker Festival for Spring 2023,” said MET Retail Sales Consultant Kelly Saxby. “Malta is a real hot spot for Poker, with so many fantastic events happening each year. The non-stop sunshine, world-class hotels, stunning coastline, outdoor dining, and buzzing nightlife make it a great place to explore and enjoy.”
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Since its inception back in 2018, the all-ladies poker tournament held during The Malta Poker Festival aptly called Ladies First! has boasted some of the nicest hosts the poker industry has.
This Autumn edition will be held at Portomaso Casino on Saturday 30th of October, 2022, starting at 4:00 pm. The host, for what it is expected to be a full house event, is Grosvenor’s pro ambassador Katie Swift. Katie discovered poker when her parents taught her the game during the Christmas holidays, and the rest is history.
She secured her first GUKPT Main Event Final Table result in Manchester. Within months of each other, she achieved her biggest tournament result (at the time) both online and live. As an anonymous player, the online win went silently, however her runner up finish in the Goliath event put her on the poker map. She beat 4209 players, to finish as runner up in Grosvenor Poker’s record-breaking event “The Goliath “to pocket £46,300. As she says herself “elated was an understatement”.
MPF Event Director Ivonne Montealegre describes Katie as “a talented poker player, focused and hard working. A present and driven mother, wife, daughter and business women, she seems to juggle the poker pro career and her personal family in a brilliant manner -something I admire. It is so refreshing to hear from this women powerhouse, a role model for all women. All of us at MPF marvel and revere Katie and can’t wait to have her here on the island. She is very accessible and determined to grow the women participation in poker.”
Currently Katie is in Vegas participating on the main event and has added some deep runs to her already impressive poker CV.
You can expect to see Kate Swift at the MPF Grand Event as well as hosting the Ladies First event.
Live and online satellites for the Ladies First event will be announced soon.
For more info: support@themaltapokerfestival.com
Luxon Pay is bringing together several major poker brands under one roof this August when the inaugural Mediterranean Poker Party descends on North Cyprus, bringing with it a bustling three-week schedule featuring tournaments with buy-ins from $550 up to $200,000.
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The Malta Poker Festival is proud to announce that it will be joining The Luxon Pay Mediterranean Poker Party (MPP). The event is a 3-week extravaganza in the all-inclusive Merit Resort in Cyprus. The star-studded event roster includes: the Eurasian Poker Tour (EAPT) and Imperium, who bring the prestigious historical Italian live poker brands La Notte Degli Assi and La Casa Delle Carte.
Opening the MPP is the Grand Event by the Malta Poker Festival (MPF), Ladies First and the Irish Open, added to the schedule.
Neil Barrett, Business Development Director of Luxon Pay said: “We are delighted that a diverse range of partners are hosting their own events at the Luxon Pay MPP. The idea is they use formats as close as possible to their most famous tournaments which players know and love. Look out for more exciting news in the near future about a further partner on the back end of the series.”
Songul Bekem, President of Merit Poker said: “Everybody at Merit is really looking forward to this event that will mark the opening of our new giant poker room and the new Merit Royal Diamond Hotel. With over 3 weeks’ worth of action there really is something for everybody in the schedule.”
The Malta Poker Festival (MPF) event ($500 + $50) runs August 28th– 29th hot off the back of one of our most successful years to date. The MPF tournament at the MPP will have an added package to the next Malta Poker Festival scheduled for this Autumn.
Ladies First will run as a one-day tournament on August 27th with a discounted buy-in of $90 + $10 for women. Hosted by Ivonne Montealegre, expect a Malta Poker Festival feel with the aim of the tournament simple: attract more women to the game.
The core MPP schedule gets underway with the $1,000 +$100 buy-in $1Million guaranteed MPP Open, taking place between August 19th – 23rd. Next up is the MPP Warm Up, a $2,000 + $200 entry $2Million guaranteed tournament running August 26th – 30th with the showcase $5,000 + $300 buy-in $5Million guaranteed MPP Main Event running August 29th – September 3rd.
The series will celebrate the opening of the brand-new Merit Royal Diamond Hotel and new giant poker room with capacity for up to 200 tables. The MPP promises action both on and off the felt with parties and events planned throughout the series. The Merit Poker Resorts are all inclusive, with some hotels suitable for families and others adult only.
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Get ready for the poker holiday of a lifetime! For more detailed information, including the schedule and accommodation contact us at: support@themaltapokerfestival.com
Established in 2018, the series was founded by Ivonne Montealegre who said that she wanted to take the tournament “to the next level” and make the Malta Poker Festival “the most spectacular destination [on the island].”
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The festival’s schedule was littered with numerous poker tournaments and thousands of players took their shot at boosting their bankrolls and running deep to win coveted trophies. Beyond that, there was also plenty of hot and heavy action in the cash game rooms that started each afternoon and continued on into the early morning hours each day.
Read the whole article here: Malta: So Much More Than Just a Mediterranean Poker Mecca
After seven days of scintillating action at the beautiful Portomaso Casino, the 2022 Spring Malta Poker Festival Spring Grand Event winner has been crowned.
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Success doesn’t happen on its own though, and having observed two days of activity here in Malta, it’s already crystal clear to me that the festival owes its success to 10 specific ingredients, all of which happen to begin with the letter “P”, which I’ve laid out in this feature.
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The Battle of Malta and Malta Poker Festival are in the books. In pre-pandemic times, both were staples of the European fall schedule but this year, both sought to take advantage of the pent-up hunger for live poker by launching spring editions. Such was their success, testament to the power of both brands, that it would not be surprising to see them both become bi-annual festivals going forward.
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