Day 1e Photos
Category Day 1E
First Break
Players are on their first 15-minute break of Day 1e. Blinds will increase to 200/400 with a 400 big blind ante when the action resumes.
More Than 300 Entries!
Level 3: 200/300 (300)
Entries: 296/304
Day 1e of the Grand Event has soared past 300 entries? Will it get more than 400 entries? Time will tell!
Yellow Chip Action
Level 3: 200/300 (300)
Entries: 292/298
There were already a handful of yellow 5,000-denominated chips in the pot with the 7♦9♠3♣ on the board after the flop when two players, who already chipped up their stacks, tangled.
Griegio Geerman checked before Martin Ganchev bet 9,000. Geerman called to see the 2♣ turn. Geerman quickly checked. Ganchev paused for a few moments before he bet 10,000. Geerman paused for about 15 seconds before he tossed away his hand.
Martin Ganchev – 80,000
Griegio Geerman – 70,000
Gialanze Turns a Straight
Level 2: 100/200 (200)
Entries: 281/284
Karl Gialanze checked the A♣8♣6♥7♦ board after the turn. Stig Horup fired out for around 2,000 into a pot of more than double that. Gialanze jacked it up to 6,500 and Horup called.
Gialanze quickly bet 11,000 after the Q♣ river completed the board. Horup paused for less than 10 seconds before he called. Gialanze turned over the 9♥5♥ for the straight. Despite losing the hand, Horup opted to table his cards as well and turned over the A♥7♥ for a turned two-pair.
Karl Gialanze – 90,000
Stig Horup – 30,000
Day 1e Already the Biggest of Them All
Level 2: 100/200 (200)
Entries: 269/272
The Day 1e keeps getting bigger and bigger with no end in sight. It has already become the biggest field of the first five opening flights with 272 entries already in action during Level 2.
It’s time to celebrate as the prize pool will be even more massive than advertised with some tasty prizes for everyone that cashes in the Grand Event!
€500K GTD Already Smashed!
Level 2: 100/200 (200)
Entries: 242/244
The €500,000 guarantee has already been smashed in the 2023 MPF Autumn Edition Grand Event powered by the Unibet DeepStack Open with the 244 entries bringing the field up to 1,044 and counting.
Congrats to the Malta Poker Festival staff, Portomaso Casino, and most importantly the players for making this happen with still plenty of more opportunities to get into the action!
Dragos Runs Ladies Into Gruicic’s Rockets
Level 1: 100/100 (100)
Entries: 215/216
The Day 1e field has already soared past 200 entries. Romania’s Iacob Dragos was one of the entries but was the first player on the rail.
It was a five-bet pot preflop when Dragos check-called a small bet by Stribor Gruicic on the J♣4♠4♥ flop. Both players checked after the [invalid notations] river. Gruicic snapped it off and snagged the early chip lead after his A♠A♣ proved to be more than enough to beat Dragos’ Q♥Q♠.
Stribor Gruicic – 100,000
Iacob Dragos – 0
Early Entrants
Level 1: 100/100 (100)
Entries: 175/175
The Day 1e field already attracted a dozen or so new entrants.
Matthew Adams, Jacqueline “PokerMama” Cachia, Sophie Clarke, Borge Dypvik, Karl Gialanze, and Junyu Liu are among the early entrants.
Best of luck to all of the players!
Shuffle Up & Deal
Level 1: 100/100 (100)
Entries: 162/162
Cards are in the air to start Day 1e with blinds at 100/100 along with a big blind ante of 100. With a 50,000 opening stack, this means players are a whopping 500 big blinds deep to start.
The field is already at 162 entries to start things off and will grow in leaps and bounds. Just 38 more entries brings the total up to 1,000 entries for the Grand Event when taking into account the 800 entries battling it out during the first four opening flights.
