Category Day 1E

Level 3: 200/300 (300)
Entries: 296/304

Day 1e of the Grand Event has soared past 300 entries? Will it get more than 400 entries? Time will tell!

Level 3: 200/300 (300)
Entries: 292/298

There were already a handful of yellow 5,000-denominated chips in the pot with the 7♦9♠3♣ on the board after the flop when two players, who already chipped up their stacks, tangled.

Griegio Geerman checked before Martin Ganchev bet 9,000. Geerman called to see the 2♣ turn. Geerman quickly checked. Ganchev paused for a few moments before he bet 10,000. Geerman paused for about 15 seconds before he tossed away his hand.

Martin Ganchev – 80,000
Griegio Geerman – 70,000

Level 2: 100/200 (200)
Entries: 281/284

Karl Gialanze checked the A♣8♣6♥7♦ board after the turn. Stig Horup fired out for around 2,000 into a pot of more than double that. Gialanze jacked it up to 6,500 and Horup called.

Gialanze quickly bet 11,000 after the Q♣ river completed the board. Horup paused for less than 10 seconds before he called. Gialanze turned over the 9♥5♥ for the straight. Despite losing the hand, Horup opted to table his cards as well and turned over the A♥7♥ for a turned two-pair.

Karl Gialanze – 90,000
Stig Horup – 30,000

Level 2: 100/200 (200)
Entries: 269/272

The Day 1e keeps getting bigger and bigger with no end in sight. It has already become the biggest field of the first five opening flights with 272 entries already in action during Level 2.

It’s time to celebrate as the prize pool will be even more massive than advertised with some tasty prizes for everyone that cashes in the Grand Event!

Level 2: 100/200 (200)
Entries: 242/244

The €500,000 guarantee has already been smashed in the 2023 MPF Autumn Edition Grand Event powered by the Unibet DeepStack Open with the 244 entries bringing the field up to 1,044 and counting.

Congrats to the Malta Poker Festival staff, Portomaso Casino, and most importantly the players for making this happen with still plenty of more opportunities to get into the action!

Level 1: 100/100 (100)
Entries: 215/216

The Day 1e field has already soared past 200 entries. Romania’s Iacob Dragos was one of the entries but was the first player on the rail.

It was a five-bet pot preflop when Dragos check-called a small bet by Stribor Gruicic on the J♣4♠4♥ flop. Both players checked after the [invalid notations] river. Gruicic snapped it off and snagged the early chip lead after his A♠A♣ proved to be more than enough to beat Dragos’ Q♥Q♠.

Stribor Gruicic – 100,000
Iacob Dragos – 0

Level 1: 100/100 (100)
Entries: 175/175

The Day 1e field already attracted a dozen or so new entrants.

Matthew Adams, Jacqueline “PokerMama” Cachia, Sophie Clarke, Borge Dypvik, Karl Gialanze, and Junyu Liu are among the early entrants.

Best of luck to all of the players!

Level 1: 100/100 (100)
Entries: 162/162

Cards are in the air to start Day 1e with blinds at 100/100 along with a big blind ante of 100. With a 50,000 opening stack, this means players are a whopping 500 big blinds deep to start.

The field is already at 162 entries to start things off and will grow in leaps and bounds. Just 38 more entries brings the total up to 1,000 entries for the Grand Event when taking into account the 800 entries battling it out during the first four opening flights.

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.