Category Day 1E

Place	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blings	Flight
1	Marco Cipriani	Italy	800,000	160	Day 1b
2	Salvatore Dimartino	Italy	529,000	106	Day 1a
3	Giovanni Nava	Italy	518,000	104	Day 1a
4	Kamil Skawinski	Poland	515,000	103	Day 1d
5	Andrei Roman-Tamaduianu	Romania	510,000	102	Day 1b
6	Robert Kontkanen	Sweden	507,000	101	Day 1d
7	Peter De Bruin	Netherlands	471,000	94	Day 1d
8	Antonio Brancati	Italy	460,000	92	Day 1c
9	Boro Skalonja	Switzerland	457,000	91	Day 1a
10	Mati Pirn	Estonia	429,000	86	Day 1b

The 2023 Malta Poker Festival (MPF) Autumn Edition has been booming with plenty of players battling it out in the Grand Event, the side events, and, of course, cash games at the luxurious surroundings of Portomaso Casino for a week of thrilling poker action.

The crown jewel of the festival in the €500,000 guaranteed MPF €550 Grand Event powered by the Unibet DeepStack Open (UDSO) already attracted a banner field of 800 entries during the first three opening flights including 252 entries on Thursday’s Day 1c alone. With three more opening flights, who knows how big the Grand Event will grow.

While the focus of our coverage will be on Day 1e of the Grand Event starting when it kicks off at 2 p.m. on Friday, we will also sprinkle in some flavor from the side events, the turbo Day 1f that kicks off at 9 p.m., and activities away from the poker action.

The Grand Event boasts seven opening flights from October 24-29 with surviving players battling it out for two more days on October 29-30 until the latest winner is crowned.

Main Event Day 1e Structure

Check out the blind structure for Day 1e below. Players are allowed to re-enter up to two times during each opening flight until the start of Level 9.

Place	Small Blind	Big Blinds	Big Blind Ante	Duration
1	100	100	100	40 min.
2	100	200	200	40 min.
3	200	300	300	40 min.
Break				15 min.
4	200	400	400	40 min.
5	300	600	600	40 min.
6	400	800	800	40 min.
Break				15 min.
7	500	1,000	1,000	40 min.
8	600	1,200	1,200	40 min.
9	1,000	1,500	1,500	40 min.
Break				75 min.
10	1,000	2,000	2,000	40 min.
11	1,500	2,500	2,500	40 min.
Break				15 min.
12	1,500	3,000	3,000	40 min.
13	2,000	4,000	4,000	40 min.

Stay tuned at the Malta Poker Festival website for all of your updates.