Category Day 1C

The Unibet Deepstack Open (UDSO), which powers the Malta Poker Festival Grand Event has stepped it up in a huge way as they will be hosting a satellite on Friday, April 26 at 8 p.m. CEST at Unibet Poker.

All it takes is €1 to enter with a €550 Grand Event ticket awaiting the winner with UDSO satellite tickets on tap for those that came close with no cigar.

When you think about the fact that you can’t really buy anything for €1 these days, this is an absolute bargain. Worst case, you lose a Euro while having fun. Best case is, that you are freerolling the Malta Poker Festival Grand Event compliments of the UDSO.

Special thanks to Alex Henry for adding more value to the Malta Poker Festival.

The €2,500 Super High Roller just kicked off with a tidy field of 11 entries. Late registration will remain open throughout the entire first day and also will stay open during the first blind level of tomorrow’s final day.

The Irish duo of David Lappin and Aidan Quinlan are having a quick chat before hopping in to join the likes of Fabian Bartuschk, Alessandro Crisafulli, Ondrej Drozd, Paul Frost, Ivan Furniet Martinez, Samuel Goodman, Daniel Kalinowski, Richard Kellet, and Maurice McCarthy.

Cory Desmond was also around for the chat while considering playing the event.

“When are you guys going to sit?” asked Desmond to Lappin and Quinlan.

“After you sit,” replied Quinlan who got a laugh from everyone within hearing distance.

Best of luck to all of the Super High Roller players.

Recently crowned Norwegian champion Rolf Arne Bechstrom is hosting a fantastic event in the €230 Friday 2 Stack at 7 p.m.

Some of the rake in this event will go towards cancer research, which unfortunately hits home for the usually cheerful Bechstrom.

The event boasts 20-minute blind levels with a 20,000 starting stack with unlimited re-entries available during the first eight blind levels.

We wish Bechstrom and the rest of the field the best of luck in winning this charitable event.

Level 8: 1,000/2,000 (2,000)
Entries: 141/267

Stephane Roux opened for 4,500 from under the gun. Paul Zehetleitner three-bet to 12,000 from middle position before Stewart Kirby went into the tank. Kirby jammed for around 100,000 a couple of minutes later. Roux quickly folded before Zehetleitner snap-called with the best preflop hand in no-limit hold’em.

Paul Zehetleitner: A♠A♥
Stewart Kirby: Q♠Q♦

Aces held for Zehetleitner after the 8♥5♠4♣J♣6♣ runout to double his stack while leaving Kirby short.

Paul Zehetleitner -160,000
Stewart Kirby – 25,000

The €300 PLO Knight Crusaders kicked off moments ago with 36 entries thus far.

Evy Albrigtsen, the wife of Ronny Albrigtsen who bagged a second-place stack last night in the Grand Event, is among the players in casion. Also battling in the four-card affair are Dieter Aebi, Mark Adams, Caroline Cove, Alexandros Katsouros, Philip McCall, Matthias Kribben, Rimko Meijer, Jacob Moss, Maximilian Sanders, Theo Schmitt, and Jesper van Dijk.

Best of luck to all of the Crusaders in the hunt for Malta Poker Festival glory.

Level 7: 1,000/1,500 (1,500)
Entries: 164/257

A big pot just went down on Table 11 between Daniel Kauhausen and Lucien Jouanneau. There was about 20,000 in the pot when Kauhausen check-called a bet of 4,000 by Jouanneau on the 10♥4♥A♣ flop.

Kauhausen checked again on the 3♦ turn. Jouanneau tossed out a bet of 20,000. Kauhausen went into the tank for about a minute before he jammed for more than the 66,000 his opponent had in his stack.

“Oh shit,” Kauhausen said in a quiet voice obviously not pleased he was called.

Lucien Jouanneau: A♠A♦
Daniel Kauhausen: K♥J♥

Kauhausen was in trouble but had some hope to hit a flush or a gutshot to Broadway. But no flush or gutshot completed on the [invalid notations]2c[/[invalid notations] river for Kauhausen to double Jouanneau.

“Oh dear,” Kauhausen said after the hand still having some regrets.

Lucien Jouanneau – 160,000
Daniel Kauhausen – 25,000

Level 7: 1,000/1,500 (1,500)
Entries: 171/253

Jordi Ribatellada Ruiz three-bet jammed from the blinds for about 10 big blinds and was called by Vito Romei, who originally opened from early position.

Jordi Ribatellada Ruiz: K♥Q♥
Vito Romei: J♥J♣

Ruiz lost the flip and his stack to Romei after he bricked the 5♣8♥A♦8♥10♠ board.

Vito Romei – 100,000
Jordi Ribatellada Ruiz – 0

Germany’s Tino Puzicha navigated through a huge field of 416 entries to win the one-day €230 Bounty Hunter Days Malta as part of the Malta Poker Festival on Thursday evening for €7,347 plus bounties.

The event boasted €38,272 in standard payouts along with another €41,600 in bounties for a total €79,872 prize pool. Check out the payouts below from the 2024 Malta Poker Festival Spring Edition €230 Bounty Hunter Days Malta.

Place	Player	Prize
1	Tino Puzicha	€7,347
2	Patrick Kneringer	€4,865
3	Anthony Swain	€3,350
4	Dave Van Iperen	€2,725
5	Sami Odeh	€2,220
6	Guilio Spampinato	€1,770
7	Leendert Nederlof	€1,350
8	Janet Kosloff	€1,040
9	Even Kristiansen	€820
10	Scott Rodriguez	€60
11	Paul High	€670
12	Daniel Maunders	€535
13	Alexander Ewert	€535
14	Mary Kerr	€420
15	Holger Breuer	€420
16	Halil Gecaj	€360
17	Patrick Kochanski	€360
18	Hakan Uzun	€305
19	Andrea Kapp	€305
20	Domenico Cascasi	€305
21	Vikram Digpal	€305
22	Julien Laudat	€305
23	Thomas Lange	€305
24	Philipp Dohling	€305
25	Jan Scheldorf	€305
26	Nial Mullally	€305
27	Peter Kindberg	€260
28	Mlissa Rioli	€260
29	Alan Oakley	€260
30	Philip Heald	€260
31	Claudio Malandri	€260
32	Kevin Rothlisberger	€260
33	Pascal Inkert	€260
34	Matthias Kribben	€260
35	Elhanan Cohen	€260
36	Michael Rossiter	€260
37	Louis Cheret	€220
38	Martin Ehrler	€220
39	Robert Oliver	€220
40	Sebastian Fleischmann	€220
41	Andreas Sautr	€220
42	Steven Marshall	€220
43	Michael Haney	€220
44	Michael Taylor	€220
45	Lars Wandmaker	€190
46	Chiara Knowle	€190
47	Anca Eggenberger	€190
48	Rosarie Roberts	€190
49	Maik Buss	€190
50	Michael Walsh	€190
51	Amber De Visser	€190
52	Wing Cheung	€190
53	Robert Seitz	€190

Players are on their second 15-minute break. The next break will be the 60-minute dinner break, taking place after four more blind levels starting with Level 7 with blinds at 1,000/1,500 (1,500).