Day 1b Kicks Off at 1 PM
Welcome back to the coverage of the 2024 Malta Poker Festival Spring Edition at the luxurious Portomaso Casino from April 22-29. The festival boasts many amazing events with deep structures across a variety of games and buy-ins along with cash games running around the clock and the fun off-the-felt activities to showcase a bit of what the beautiful island of Malta has to offer.
Our coverage will resume on Thursday, April 25 at 1 p.m. when cards are in the air for Day 1b of the €300,000 guaranteed Malta Poker Festival €550 Grand Event powered by the Unibet Deepstack Open. The guarantee is on track to be smashed with yesterday’s Day 1a attracting a banner field of 177 entries.
United Kingdom’s Indre Stanaityte set the gold standard on Day 1a after parlaying her 50,000 chip stack into a monstrous pile of 858,000 in chips to lead the 27 survivors while Latvia’s Elvijs Kuceruks wasn’t too far behind with 807,000.
The MPF Grand Event is a deep-stacked affair with players starting each of the six opening flights from April 24-28 with 50,000 in chips. The first four opening flights boast 40-minute blind levels including today’s Day 1b with Day 1e and Day 1f speeding along with a turbo-structure of 20-minute blind levels.
Players can re-enter up to two times per flight during the first 10 levels of any opening flight providing players plenty of opportunities to bag a big stack. Each opening flight will conclude when the field is trimmed down to 15 percent with all surviving players already in the money for at least a €900 min-cash heading into Sunday’s Day 2.
Day 1a Structure
| Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 300 | 300 |
| 2 | 200 | 400 | 400 |
| 3 | 300 | 600 | 600 |
| 15-Minute Break | |||
| 4 | 400 | 800 | 800 |
| 5 | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 6 | 600 | 1,200 | 1,200 |
| 15-Minute Break | |||
| 7 | 1,000 | 1,500 | 1,500 |
| 8 | 1,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 |
| 9 | 1,500 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
| 10 | 2,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 |
| 60-Minute Break (Late Registration Closes) | |||
| 11 | 3,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 |
| 12 | 3,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 |
| 13 | 4,000 | 8,000 | 8,000 |
| 15-Minute Break | |||
| 14 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| 15 | 6,000 | 12,000 | 12,000 |
| 16 | 8,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 |
Thursday also boasts the €230 Bounty Hunter Days Malta at 4 p.m., which is expected to draw an amazing field alongside a €70 satellite to the Grand Event at 7 p.m. and a €300 satellite to Friday’s €2,500 Super High Roller at 9 p.m.
Check out our blog throughout the week for all of your updates and stories about the Grand Event, side event winners, and more.