The Party Poker MILLIONS Malta Festival is now in full swing, with three days of side events completed and four trophies awarded. today sees the start of the €3,000 MILLIONS main event, day 2 of the Hydra High Roller and the resumption of starting days for the $1m Grand Prix. If that’s not enough, there’s also a €330 Omaha and a couple more satellites to the Grand Prix!
Here’s the schedule of today’s action
Start Time
Event #
Event
Buy-In
15:00
#17
Grand Prix Hyper Turbo Satellite to event #3
€60+€10
15:00
#13
Hydra Entertainment High Roller Day 2
€5,000+€300
18:00
#3c
Grand Prix $1m GTD Day 1c
€500+€50
18:00
#18
Omaha Single Day Event
€300+€30
21:00
#19
MILLIONS Day 1A
€500+€50
21:00
#20
Grand Prix Satellite to event #3
€60+€10
Hydra High Roller Day 1 Completed
The €5,300 Hydra Entertainment High Roller began on Wednesday with 39 players having entered so far. When play ended a little after midnight there were 31 players left in contention, with the Dutch duo of Teun Mulder and Michel Molenaar leading the way. Molenaar won the super high roller event at the Malta Poker Festival earlier this year and will be hoping to repeat that feat, which will be a tall task, as its a high quality field with many experienced high stakes players assembled. These include multiple bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche from Germany, Spain’s Leo Margets, Belgian Bart Lybaert and France’s Johan “YoH ViraL” Gilbert. Party Poker Team Pro Matt Staples also entered the event but was one of the unfortunate 8 players to hit the rail before the end of the day.
Michael Molenaar chases a further title in Malta
Late registration was still open until the start of day 2, at 3pm and by the time they had shuffled up and started dealing, the field had grown to 44, creating a prize pool of €200,000!
Overnight chip counts from the Hydra Entertainment High Roller
Player
Nationality
Chip Count
Teun Mulder
Dutch
140,000
Michel Molenaar
Dutch
105,000
Aurelien Russo
French
99,400
Alessandro Pichierri
Italian
95,400
Alex Peffly
English
94,000
Orestis Kanakopoulos
Greek
88,700
Bart Lybaert
Belgian
85,000
Leo Margets
Spanish
76,000
Stanislav Zegal
German
69,200
Farid Jattin
Colombian
68,800
Alex Van Der Swaluw
Dutch
64,400
Jonathan Abdellatif
Belgian
64,000
Thomas Clack
English
62,100
Koen Meutstege
Dutch
49,200
Fausto Tantillo
Italian
47,500
Fabio Peluso
Italian
44,100
Grigoriy Rodin
Russian
42,700
Raoul Van Wersch
Dutch
42,600
Thomas Eychenne
French
41,500
Ioannis Angelou-Konstas
Greek
35,800
Scott Wellenbach
Canadian
30,200
Ivan Balzano
Brazilian
28,600
Dominik Nitsche
German
20,000
Candido Gabriele Cappiello
Italian
17,600
Kamil Sokol
Czech
17,200
Johan “YoH ViraL” Guilbert
French
16,500
Jakub Wojtas
German
11,300
Italian Party
Yesterday’s side event was the €130+€20 NLH Italian Party, which to be fair was a more International affair than strictly Italian. In fact only one Italian player Mattia Ride graced the final table, finishing in 6th place. It was a long drawn out tournament that finally reached its conclusion at 6am, when Germany’s Philipp Kampf defeated Maltese player Marc Schembri to claim the title, the trophy and €6,332 for his efforts. In total 238 players entered, creating a prize pool of just under €30k.
Party Poker MILLIONS Malta 2023 – #14 €130 + €20 NLH Italian Party
Position
Player
Nationality
Prize
1
Philipp Kampf
German
€6,332
2
Marc Schembri
Maltese
€4,600
3
Benjamin Foulgot
French
€3,490
4
Scott Fingland
Canadian
€2,600
5
Svajunas Seduikis
Lithuanian
€1,800
6
Mattia Ridi
Italian
€1,490
7
Aleksander Georgiev
Bulgarian
€1,190
8
Pagareckas Mindaugas
Lithuanian
€890
9
Raymond Bellante
Maltese
€600
10
Brian Calleja
Maltese
€520
11
John Kruljac
Australian
€520
12
Mark Adams
English
€520
13
Gary Armstrong
Scotland
€440
14
Karl Gialanze
Maltese
€440
15
Sebastian Gotthardt
German
€440
16
Kamil Skawinski
Polish
€360
17
Guiseppe Schiraldi
Italian
€360
18
Jozsef Fauszt
Hungarian
€360
19
Mityok Erno
Hungarian
€360
20
Vito Cuscito
Italian
€360
21
Shota Burjandaze
Georgia
€290
22
Susta Marco
Italian
€290
23
Neil Barron
English
€290
24
Mateusz Kozuch
Polish
€290
25
Adam Tomasson
Sweden
€290
26
Yohann Girondin
France
€290
27
Alfredo Cuti
Italian
€290
Total Entries
226
€29,702.00
Unique Players
164
Re-entries
62
The full schedule of events can be found here
Photos from the event can be found here
Photography by Jean Marc Zerafa
Jonathan Raab
Party Poker MILLIONS Malta Media Coordinator
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