Category Malta Poker Festival 2023

Player	Chips	Big Blinds
Antonio Brancati	460,000	92
Samuel Tebege	376,000	75
Tomas Flanagan	375,000	75
Vytautas Rubeziu	337,000	67
Kjell Hernstrom	327,000	65
Congliang Lyu	320,000	64
Thomas Harnes	311,000	62
Jonathan Briscoe White	308,000	62
Miriam Hellwig	308,000	62
Samuele Lo Presti	308,000	62
Istvan Krizsan	291,000	58
Anthony Farthing	289,000	58
Dylan Cechowski	286,000	57
Henrik Torstensson	278,000	56
Tomasz Brzezinski	276,000	55
Jeongmin Lee	268,000	54
Martinez Furniet	265,000	53
Allan Arjut	244,000	49
Anders Karlsen	240,000	48
Boban Stevanovic	232,000	46
Nicolas Bigham	230,000	46
Lars-Magne Johansen	226,000	45
Garry Woods	225,000	45
Karl Linder	222,000	44
Georgios Zachmanidis	214,000	43
Eros Nastasi	209,000	42
Kevin Berkhout	206,000	41
Samuel Biland	206,000	41
Igor Bukowsi	203,000	41
Lawrence Bonnici	199,000	40
Skipp van den Assem	197,000	39
Ronnie Cohen	190,000	38
Proenca Oliveira	190,000	38
Miguel Martinez Marti	185,000	37
Kevin Quinlan	182,000	36
Jonathan Stoll	179,000	36
Bjarke Matthiesen	173,000	35
Ruiz Ribatallada	168,000	34
Francesco Biribao	165,000	33
Soren Dalgaard	163,000	33
Petrus Berkhout	156,000	31
Angelo Monachino	154,000	31
Jonas Nordquist	153,000	31
Stig Eketrapp	149,000	30
Gaetano Brignone	148,000	30
George Waud	147,000	29
Giuseppe Marrone	140,000	28
Vincenzo Scarpitti	139,000	28
Maciej Toma	138,000	28
Giuseppe Partinico	121,000	24
Sascha Manns	118,000	24
Adam Bromley	112,000	22
Mathias Petit	110,000	22
Niel Adams	109,000	22
Christophe Cambier	108,000	22
Johan Hermansson	91,000	18
Gunnar Fenes	85,000	17
Emil Langeland	84,000	17
Candido Cappiello	82,000	16
Daniele Grasso	80,000	16
Richard Sambron	80,000	16
Elsje Vansteenkiste	73,000	15
Jonathan Butters	72,000	14
Jeoffrey Duytschaever	68,000	14
Chris Da Silva	60,000	12
Dan Larsson	60,000	12
Benjamin Kett	57,000	11
Alexandra Grasu	55,000	11
Paolo Di Girolamo	48,000	10

Level 13: 2,000/4,000 (4,000)
Entries: 77/260

Roar Florte opened for 10,000 before Istvan Krizsan three-bet jammed for a chunk of chips. Jonathan Stoll called off his short-stack before Florte also called off his stack as well.

Jonathan Stoll: A♦Q♦
Roar Florte: K♣K♥
Istvan Krizsan: [invalid notations] flop, however Florte slammed the table either out of anger or frustration or both after a miracle two outer for his opponents came on the A♥ turn. No alternative miracle came on the 4♦ river. Florte was less than happy about his bad luck, but who could blame him?

“The same thing happened at the Norwegians!” Florte said before quickly leaving the table.

Although Krizsan won the side pot, his stack soon went into the back into the pot after shoving the very next hand his K♣9♦ into Emil Langeveld’s Q♦Q♠.

The table was laughing about the last two hands before Sascha Manns, who was also at the table, piped up.

“Now you are just getting cute,” Manns said with a smile.

Nothing miracle happened for Krizsan on the 5♠A♠J♦7♣6♦ board and Krizsan’s stack went over to Langeveld.

Emil Langeveld – 200,000
Jonathan Stoll – 100,000
Istvan Krizsan – 0
Roar Florte – 0

Level 12: 2,000/3,000 (3,000)
Entries: 92/260

Giovanni Russo three-bet from late position to 27,000 over the early position open by Joengmin Lee. Joengmin called before he checked the Q♣9♥8♠ flop.

Russo fired out for 18,000 and Joengmin called. Joengmin checked the K♥ turn. Lee bet 21,000. Lee jammed a big stack and Russo snap-called for about 65,000 in total.

Giovanni Russo: A♣Q♠
Joengmin Lee: K♦9♦

Lee’s two pair was miles ahead and Russo, who was ahead on the flop only to fall behind on the turn, wasn’t able to get a miracle to save his Day 1c tournament life with the [8h] river completing the board.

Joengmin Lee – 300,000
Giovanni Russo – 0

Players are on their final break of Day 1c. There will be two more blind levels including 1,500/3,000 (3,000) and 2,000/4,000 (4,000) when the action resumes before the surviving players bag and tag their stacks into Sunday’s Day 2.

Level 11: 1,500/2,500 (2,500)
Entries: 105/260

Ingvill Nilsen jammed for 18,000 from under the gun. Arnasalon Chengalanee called from middle position before Stig Eketrapp there-bet jammed for 76,000. Chengalanee didn’t waste too much time before he called for a three-way showdown with both Norwegians Nilsen and Eketrapp at risk.

Ingvill Nilsen: 10♣10♦
Stig Eketrapp: A♦A♥
Arnasalon Chengalanee: A♦K♠

Eketrapp was ahead the entire way and even spiked the case ace on the river to double through Chengalee and oust Nilsen after the 7♣Q♣9♦2♠A♣ ran out on the board.

Stig Eketrapp – 173,000
Arnasalon Chengalanee – 20,000