Ashley Harrison Leads the Way After Bagging Day 1c Chip Lead
Day 1c of the 2024 Malta Poker Festival Spring Edition €550 Grand Event was a massive success at Portomaso Casino as the €300,000 guarantee was smashed with 277 entries bringing the total in the kitty up to €360,000 with still three opening flights to go on Saturday and Sunday.
Ashley Harrison surpassed the 1,269,000 in chips bagged by Matte Karjalainen on Day 1b to not only finish on top of the 42 survivors but to also take the overall chip lead after ending the day with a massive stack of 1,648,000. Harrison was relentless near the end of the day, putting pressure on all of his opponents, and will be a force to watch out for on Sunday’s Day 2.
Kelly Kellner also bagged more than 1 million in chips with Jamie Scannell, the entertaining Colin Cooper, and Jorgen Jessen rounding out the top five players on Day 1c.
Meanwhile, perhaps Amanda Smith was the happiest to find a bag despite there not being a ton of chips inside of it. She qualified through a raffle to play in her second live event ever outside of a pub and was elated to earn the €900 min-cash that players already earned simply by finding a bag into Day 2.
The action resumes tomorrow for Day 1d at 1 p.m. In the meantime, check out all of the chip counts below from Day 1c.
| Place | Player | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ashley Harrison | 1,648,000 | 165 |
| 2 | Kelly Kellner | 1,190,000 | 119 |
| 3 | Jamie Scannell | 656,000 | 66 |
| 4 | Colin Cooper | 507,000 | 51 |
| 5 | Jorgen Jessen | 504,000 | 50 |
| 6 | Petteri Miettinen | 500,000 | 50 |
| 7 | Paul High | 458,000 | 46 |
| 8 | Oliver Mihajlovski | 445,000 | 45 |
| 9 | Boro Skalonja | 434,000 | 43 |
| 10 | Eddy Shaw | 393,000 | 39 |
| 11 | Thomas Jakobsen | 384,000 | 38 |
| 12 | Stuart Oliver | 367,000 | 37 |
| 13 | Yves Thalmann | 364,000 | 36 |
| 14 | Daniel Stacey | 340,000 | 34 |
| 15 | Jonathan Schuman | 328,000 | 33 |
| 16 | Piotr Kuszczak | 325,000 | 33 |
| 17 | Wai Man Kwan | 305,000 | 31 |
| 18 | Colin Bidwell | 290,000 | 29 |
| 19 | Jozsef Dobos | 282,000 | 28 |
| 20 | Tomasz Brzezinski | 277,000 | 28 |
| 21 | Frank Hofener | 273,000 | 27 |
| 22 | Ashley Scott | 273,000 | 27 |
| 23 | Andrea Agnoletto | 271,000 | 27 |
| 24 | Antonio Merone | 256,000 | 26 |
| 25 | Domenico Gala | 254,000 | 25 |
| 26 | Liutauras Armanavicius | 247,000 | 25 |
| 27 | Mark Vella | 242,000 | 24 |
| 28 | Florian Guertler | 241,000 | 24 |
| 29 | Sebastian Pfeiffer | 233,000 | 23 |
| 30 | Jordi Ribatallada Ruiz | 218,000 | 22 |
| 31 | George Warnock | 189,000 | 19 |
| 32 | Wilhelmine Connolly | 178,000 | 18 |
| 33 | Thomas Hofmann | 174,000 | 17 |
| 34 | Ludovic Uzan | 149,000 | 15 |
| 35 | Florin-Radu Postole | 135,000 | 14 |
| 36 | Pontus Magnusson | 122,000 | 12 |
| 37 | Alex Montgomery | 108,000 | 11 |
| 38 | Julien Da Silva | 100,000 | 10 |
| 39 | Alex O’Brien | 95,000 | 10 |
| 40 | Daniel Kuhlmann | 86,000 | 9 |
| 41 | Amanda Smith | 73,000 | 7 |
| 42 | Salvatore Dimartino | 63,000 | 6 |