Day 1D – MPF Spring 2024

62 Players (or Fewer) Advance to Day 2 Via Day 1d

Level 11: 3,000/5,000 (5,000)
Entries: 139/413

Players are back from dinner break and the Day 1d field size was easily the largest of them all with 413 entries in the mix.

There were 139 players returning from dinner break, with a handful buying in fresh at the last moment rather than opting to hop into the turbo Day 1e which also recently kicked off. Just 62 of those players, representing 15 percent of the field, will advance to tomorrow’s Day 2.

It could be fewer than 62 that advance with at least a €900 min-cash in hand if multiple players hit the rail on the final hand.

Best of luck to all of the Day 1c players.

Various Big Stacks at Break

Player	Chips	Big Blinds
Valerio Marino	500,000	100
Joel Haapio	470,000	94
Vikram Digpal	364,000	73
Marcello Favaloro	350,000	70
Roberto Zuffo	331,000	66
Georg Buske	325,000	65
Joseph Saunders	302,000	60
Johannes Thoni	288,000	58
Bernardo Boria	285,000	57
Koen Volckaert	280,000	56
Roar Flotre	270,000	54
William Gritz	270,000	54
Rosario Saddemi	264,000	53
Martin Kirchbaumer	260,000	52
Fabio Berti	250,000	50
Clint Jeffery	242,000	48
Makan Rabiian	235,000	47
Giuseppe Di Bella	230,000	46
Arthur Navellou	215,000	43
Peter Perceval	215,000	43
Timothy Jones	210,000	42
Marco Patane	210,000	42
Jack Triggs	210,000	42
Davy Maes	208,000	42
Michael Stewart	198,000	40
Massimo Bruno	196,000	39
Nial Mullally	193,000	39
Patrick Thurner	190,000	38
Roy Trickett	190,000	38
Pascal Inkert	183,000	37
Thomas Hardt	181,000	36
Evy Albrigtsen	180,000	36
Stephen Dishman	180,000	36
Szymon Bujok	179,000	36
Guy Cox	179,000	36
Richard Koppel	177,000	35
Nikki Vatmanidou	174,000	35
Torsten Klingels	170,000	34
Claudio Barone	169,000	34
Jozsef Hegyi	165,000	33

Dinner Break

Players are on a 60-minute dinner break. Players can still enter or re-enter during the dinner break but late registration will be closed when cards are back in the air at which point we will know how many players are scheduled to advance to Day 2 through the Day 1d field.

Players might instead choose to enter into Day 1e with 20-minute blind levels kicking off in less than an hour at 9 p.m.

Maroy’s Jacks No Good Against Marino’s Kings

Level 10: 2,000/4,000 (4,000)
Entries: 157/411

Valerio Marino min-raised. Two players flatted before Paul Maroy three-bet to 40,000. Marino jammed his huge stack. Two players folded before Maroy called off his stack of around 140,000.

Paul Maroy: J♠J♣
Valerio Marino: K♦K♥

Maroy was behind and eventually lost his stack in a huge pot to Marino’s set after the Q♠2♠6♦K♠5♣ ran out on the board.

Valerio Marino – 420,000
Paul Maroy – 0

Photos From the APAT Maltese Championship

Chmelensky Runs Into Digpal’s Cowboys

Level 10: 2,000/4,000 (4,000)
Entries: 173/411

Jakub Chmelensky four-bet shoved from the hijack for about 105,000 before Vikram Digpal, who three-bet from the cutoff, called off his stack of 90,500.

Vikram Digpal: K♦K♣
Jakub Chmelensky: 5♦5♣

Digpal’s cowboys were more than enough to beat fives to double his stack after the 7♥9♠6♦9♣4♣ ran out on the board.

Vikram Digpal – 191,000
Jakub Chmelensky – 15,000