Day 1C – MPF Spring 2024

Photos From the Malta Tour

The Malta Poker Festival has tons of off-the-felt activities for the players including this morning’s hop-on, hop-off Malta Tour bus exclusively for players at the Malta Poker Festival. Check out some of the photos below:

€230 Mystery Bounty About to Begin

A fun event is just about to kick off in the €230 Mystery Bounty at 4 p.m. There are already around 200 entries ready for battle with many more to come with late registration open for the first 10 blind levels of 30 minutes each.

Players will play down to the money on Day 1 with tomorrow being an even more exciting day for the players as the mystery bounty element will kick in. If a player eliminates another on Day 2, they will open up an envelope with a mystery prize.

Best of luck to all of the players in the €230 Mystery Bounty.

Lehnen Sends Mooney to the Moon

Level 4: 400/800 (800)
Entries: 192/210

John Mooney four-bet shoved for about 20,000 from the big blind and was called by David Lehnen who three-bet from late position.

John Mooney: A♦Q♦
David Lehnen: A♣K♣

Mooney lost his stack after failing to get ahead of big slick on the K♠6♠10♠10♥3♣ runout. Meanwhile, Lehnen had one of the early bigger stacks from around the room.

David Lehnen – 120,000
John Mooney – 0

Various Big Stacks at Break

Player	Chips	Big Blinds
Bjarke Matthiesen	143,900	180
Jamie Scannell	141,600	177
Daniel Toffel	131,000	164
Martin Ehrler	130,000	163
Santina Spedalieri	128,700	161
Chris Da Silva	127,000	159
Nico Lambrechts	115,900	145
Benedetto Caruso	109,800	137
Nial Mullally	102,300	128
David Lehnen	95,200	119
Daniel Kauhausen	90,000	113
Antonio Merone	88,000	110
Thomas Hofmann	87,600	110
Helene Etter	85,200	107
Brian Knudsen	84,000	105
Marcin Jaworski	81,100	101

First Break

Players are on their first break of Day 1c. Blinds will increase to 400/800 with an 800 big blind ante when the action resumes in 15 minutes.

Ferrari Goes Zoom With Set of Ducks

Level 3: 300/600 (600)
Entries: 170/183

Moreno Ferrari had more than 30,000 committed on the turn with the 4♠8♦2♣7♣ on the board after the turn and was up against Samuel Bainbridge.

Moreno Ferrari: 2♥2♠
Samuel Bainbridge: 10♠10♦

Although Bainbridge was dominating preflop, he was down to just two outs facing off against Ferrari’s set of ducks. Ferraris may not fly as typically they zoom on the road, but in this case Moreno Ferrari’s stack zoomed into the sky with a double after Bainbridge bricked the A♣ river.

Moreno Ferrari – 90,000
Samuel Bainbridge – 37,000