Category Day 1C

Germany’s Tino Puzicha navigated through a huge field of 416 entries to win the one-day €230 Bounty Hunter Days Malta as part of the Malta Poker Festival on Thursday evening for €7,347 plus bounties.

The event boasted €38,272 in standard payouts along with another €41,600 in bounties for a total €79,872 prize pool. Check out the payouts below from the 2024 Malta Poker Festival Spring Edition €230 Bounty Hunter Days Malta.

Place	Player	Prize
1	Tino Puzicha	€7,347
2	Patrick Kneringer	€4,865
3	Anthony Swain	€3,350
4	Dave Van Iperen	€2,725
5	Sami Odeh	€2,220
6	Guilio Spampinato	€1,770
7	Leendert Nederlof	€1,350
8	Janet Kosloff	€1,040
9	Even Kristiansen	€820
10	Scott Rodriguez	€60
11	Paul High	€670
12	Daniel Maunders	€535
13	Alexander Ewert	€535
14	Mary Kerr	€420
15	Holger Breuer	€420
16	Halil Gecaj	€360
17	Patrick Kochanski	€360
18	Hakan Uzun	€305
19	Andrea Kapp	€305
20	Domenico Cascasi	€305
21	Vikram Digpal	€305
22	Julien Laudat	€305
23	Thomas Lange	€305
24	Philipp Dohling	€305
25	Jan Scheldorf	€305
26	Nial Mullally	€305
27	Peter Kindberg	€260
28	Mlissa Rioli	€260
29	Alan Oakley	€260
30	Philip Heald	€260
31	Claudio Malandri	€260
32	Kevin Rothlisberger	€260
33	Pascal Inkert	€260
34	Matthias Kribben	€260
35	Elhanan Cohen	€260
36	Michael Rossiter	€260
37	Louis Cheret	€220
38	Martin Ehrler	€220
39	Robert Oliver	€220
40	Sebastian Fleischmann	€220
41	Andreas Sautr	€220
42	Steven Marshall	€220
43	Michael Haney	€220
44	Michael Taylor	€220
45	Lars Wandmaker	€190
46	Chiara Knowle	€190
47	Anca Eggenberger	€190
48	Rosarie Roberts	€190
49	Maik Buss	€190
50	Michael Walsh	€190
51	Amber De Visser	€190
52	Wing Cheung	€190
53	Robert Seitz	€190

Players are on their second 15-minute break. The next break will be the 60-minute dinner break, taking place after four more blind levels starting with Level 7 with blinds at 1,000/1,500 (1,500).

Level 6: 600/1,200 (1,200)
Entries: 186/246

Jozsef Dobos jammed for nearly 60,000 with a little less in the pot on the turn with the 6♥7♥10♦3♣ already on the board. Massimo Bruno went into the tank for more than a minute before he called.

Jozsef Dobos: 7♣7♦
Massimo Bruno: A♥10♥

Dobos was ahead with his set but had to fade a heart that didn’t pair the board to survive and win a huge pot. The chips went to Dobos after the blank J♠ river completed the board.

Massimo Bruno – 160,000
Jozsef Dobos – 140,000

Level 5: 500/1,000 (1,000)
Entries: 196/243

Daniel Toffel opened from early position before Lukas Wick three-bet jammed from the blinds for 11,900. Toffel found the call and Wick was at risk in a race for his tournament life.

Lukas Wick: A♦K♣
Daniel Toffel: 4♥4♦

Wick won the flip but not until the river after the 2♠A♥6♠10♠K♣ ran out on the board.

Daniel Toffel – 125,000
Lukas Wick – 25,000

Level 5: 500/1,000 (1,000)
Entries: 197/231

Maria Kalantzi opened for 2,500 from under the gun. Anne-Marie Yuen defended her big blind before checking the 4♦5♣2♣ flop.

Kalantzi bet 2,500 and Yuen called to see the 10♠ turn. Yuen checked again. Kalantzi bet 5,000. Yuen raised to 10,300 and Kalantzi called.

Yuen led out for 10,000 on the 6♠ river. Kalantzi tanked for a few moments before she called.

“Jacks?” asked Yuen as she turned over the 10♣7♣.

“No, just sevens,” responded Kalantzi who turned over the 7♠7♦

“I wasn’t happy that you called,” said Yuen. “I thought I would lose if you called.”

Anne-Marie Yuen – 75,000
Maria Kalantzi – 16,000

The Malta Poker Festival has tons of off-the-felt activities for the players including this morning’s hop-on, hop-off Malta Tour bus exclusively for players at the Malta Poker Festival. Check out some of the photos below:

A fun event is just about to kick off in the €230 Mystery Bounty at 4 p.m. There are already around 200 entries ready for battle with many more to come with late registration open for the first 10 blind levels of 30 minutes each.

Players will play down to the money on Day 1 with tomorrow being an even more exciting day for the players as the mystery bounty element will kick in. If a player eliminates another on Day 2, they will open up an envelope with a mystery prize.

Best of luck to all of the players in the €230 Mystery Bounty.

Level 4: 400/800 (800)
Entries: 192/210

John Mooney four-bet shoved for about 20,000 from the big blind and was called by David Lehnen who three-bet from late position.

John Mooney: A♦Q♦
David Lehnen: A♣K♣

Mooney lost his stack after failing to get ahead of big slick on the K♠6♠10♠10♥3♣ runout. Meanwhile, Lehnen had one of the early bigger stacks from around the room.

David Lehnen – 120,000
John Mooney – 0

Player	Chips	Big Blinds
Bjarke Matthiesen	143,900	180
Jamie Scannell	141,600	177
Daniel Toffel	131,000	164
Martin Ehrler	130,000	163
Santina Spedalieri	128,700	161
Chris Da Silva	127,000	159
Nico Lambrechts	115,900	145
Benedetto Caruso	109,800	137
Nial Mullally	102,300	128
David Lehnen	95,200	119
Daniel Kauhausen	90,000	113
Antonio Merone	88,000	110
Thomas Hofmann	87,600	110
Helene Etter	85,200	107
Brian Knudsen	84,000	105
Marcin Jaworski	81,100	101