The €150 Betsson One Bullet was one of the side events to take earlier this week on Sunday. The final stages boasted a six-way deal before Herbert Seitz went on to win the trophy and a prize of €5,000.
Meanwhile, Salvatore Incardona, Gary Whitehead, Patrick Wulff, Kaspar Schmid, and Francesco Longobardi all were part of the deal and walked away with €4,500 each.
Check out the photos from the event below:
Level 8: 600/1,200 (1,200)
Entries: 185/247
Jostein Groedum didn’t have much of his stack when his chips were in from the big blind on the 2♥8♦6♣ flop against Tom Nobels.
Jostein Groedum: 9♥8♣
Tom Nobels: J♠J♦
Groedum’s top pair was behind but he had five direct outs along with some backdoors to make everything copacetic. Neither the Q♦ turn nor the Q♥ river saved the day and Groedum’s chips went into Nobel’s stack.
Tom Nobels – 115,000
Jostein Groedum – 0
Level 7: 500/1,000 (1,000)
Entries: 189/243
Mathias Falandys opened for 2,200 from early position before Noel Borg jammed for 5,700 from middle position. Falandys called and the cards were turned over.
Noel Borg: A♦9♠
Mathias Falandys: Q♠10♥
Borg was ahead when the chips went in but not by much. He stayed alive and doubled his short stack after Falandys got nowhere on the A♣8♣K♣3♦9♣ board.
Meanwhile, Tayfun Rodoplu was also at the same table and is sporting one of the biggest stacks in the room with around a quarter of a million chips.
Tayfun Rodoplu – 250,000
Mathias Falandys – 100,000
Noel Borg – 14,000
Level 7: 500/1,000 (1,000)
Entries: 194/238
Iraklis Manikaros opened for 2,500 from the cutoff. Archibald Seaton three-bet to 9,500 from the small blind and Manikaros called.
Seaton continued for 12,000 on the 7♣2♣9♥ flop. Manikaros tanked for close to a minute before he jammed for close to 30,000. Seaton snap-called and the cards were turned over.
Iraklis Manikaros: 8♥8♠
Archibald Seaton: A♥K♠
Manikaros was favored to double but he fell quickly behind after the K♥ turn. The K♠ river would have also been problematic for Manikaros even if the turn was a blank and he was out of chips after running into Seaton’s trips.
Archibald Seaton – 140,000
Iraklis Manikaros – 0
Players are on a 15-minute break. Blinds will increase to 500/1,000 with a 1,000 big blind ante before moving ahead to 600/1,200 with a 1,200 big blind ante. Late registration for Day 1d will be closed following these two blind levels.
The Malta Poker Festival and Globetrotting Poker hosted a city tour to Valletta and the Mosta Cathedral via a chartered bus tour that began at 10:30 a.m. today. The around dozen or so players enjoyed their experience as they had the entire hop on hop off to themselves for the bus tour.
The tour arrived back at 1:30 p.m., giving players plenty of time to enter Day 1d of the €550 Grand Event or the €230 Mystery Bounty.
Check out the photos below courtesy of Globetrotting Poker founder Maureen Bloechlinger and Canadian poker journalist Lyle Bateman.
Level 6: 400/800 (800)
Entries: 200/231
Noel Borg was down to just six big blinds when he jammed from under the gun. Ignazio Ciccarello called from the big blind and the cards were turned over.
Noel Borg: A♦J♠
Ignazio Ciccarello: Q♠10♠
Borg had reasons to feel safe after his ace paired on the A♥3♣4♦ flop. Neither the 8♦ turn nor the 6♦ river changed anything and Borg doubled his short stack.
Ignazio Ciccarello – 55,000
Noel Borg – 12,000
Level 6: 400/800 (800)
Entries: 200/225
Albert Sapiano continues to build his stack. While we don’t know what he had in the following hand, the table talk and the chip acceleration appear to be going hand-in-hand.
Angelo Giannotti bet 1,500 into a pot of around 3,000 after the 2♠5♦K♥ came on the flop. Sapiano raised to 7,000 and Giannotti went into the tank.
“I am happy to take 15 hundred,” Sapiano said referring to just taking the hand down right there before he added. “If you want to go, let’s go all-in.”
Giannotti tanked a bit more before he gave up on the hand.
Albert Sapiano – 95,000
Angelo Giannotti – 30,000
Level 5: 300/600 (600)
Entries: 203/223
Dean Laybourne checked before Grzegorz Skawinski bet 4,000 into a pot of around 7,000 on the J♣9♦3♠ flop. Salvatrice D’Urso called and Laybourne folded.
Laybourne fired out for 5,000 on the Q♠ turn and Skawinski called. Both players checked the 9♥ river. Skawinski turned over the Q♥10♠ for a flopped open-ender and at the end two pair with queens and nines. Laybourne mucked her hand face down and Skawinski was awarded the pot.
Grzegorz Skawinski – 60,000
Salvatorice D’Urso – 10,000
The €230 Mystery Bounty began a short while ago and is already up to 360 entries! This figure will grow for quite some time with late registration and unlimited re-entries permitted during the first ten blind levels of 30 minutes each.
The action will play down today until there is just 15 percent of the field remaining. The remaining players will return on Saturday already in the money while competing for a bigger share of the prize pool along with the prospects of selecting the correct mystery bounty envelope.
Unibet’s Sebastian Rebhan was among the players to just join after he finished “working” alongside Unibet DeepStack Open’s Alex Henry.
Best of luck to everyone playing!
