€560 Main Event Day 1cd | 2024 EAPT Malta

€560 Main Event

Day 1cd Completed

04-10-2024 01:52 UTC+2

Alessandro D'Amore In the Lead After Day 1c of the 560€ EAPT Malta Main Event

Maxime Taldir

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

The last flights of the EAPT Malta €560 Main Event at Portomaso Casino came to an end. In total, 660 entrants were recorded on this event, generating a prize pool of €313,500, way more than the €200,000 guarantee. This Thursday, April 9, Day 1c became the biggest flight of all with 196 entrants. But out of this field, only 29 players managed to bag up chips and advance to Day 2, securing a spot in the money.

Among these 29 players, Alessandro D'Amore ended up as the chip leader with 644,000 chips. Thanks to a pretty good run during the last levels of the day, he finished ahead of Andrew Cutajar (586,000) and Marco Grandetti (583,000).

€560 EAPT Malta Day 1c Top 10

Rank	Player	Country	Chip count	Big Blinds
1	Alessandro D'Amore	Italy	644,000	64
2	Andrew Cutajar	Malta	586,000	59
3	Marco Grandetti	Italy	583,000	58
4	Arvydas Merfeldas	Lithuania	531,000	53
5	Matthew Micallef	Malta	500,000	50
6	Mark Vella	Malta	431,000	43
7	Panteleimon Michalakellis	Greece	337,000	34
8	Francesco Fiore	Italy	335,000	34
9	David Lappin	Ireland	332,000	33
10	Idan Levy	Romania	328,000	33

Arvydas Merfeldas filled his bag with 531,000 chips tonight. "He is a very good player," David Lappin told PokerNews earlier in the day after he recognized him. The co-host of the Chip Race podcast and Unibet ambassador also made his way to the money, securing 332,000 chips for Day 2. He is followed by Idan Levy (328,000), who folded queens preflop today. A very wise move, as his opponent had aces.

Giovanna Dimartino will be back on Day 2 with 174,000 chips, which is below the average stack. Same situation for Adrian Ziemichod (173,000), while Eimantas Plekavicius (93,000), Nikola Minovic (85,000), and Luca Tramaglino (34,000) are in the last positions of the day.

Finally, Day 1d and Day 1 Turbo came to an end during the night. And thanks to these two last flights of the tournament, France's Mohamed Aissani became the overall chip leader with 700,000 chips.

Day 2 is scheduled to begin tomorrow, Wednesday, April 10 at noon, and to end when a winner is crowned. With 99 remaining players, the Day is expected to be very long. It will start on Level 16 (4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 big blind ante) and continue on 40-minute levels. Then blinds will increase every 20 hands on the final table.

As always, stay tuned to PokerNews as we bring you all the action throughout this tournament until we have the name of the winner!

Tags: Adrian Ziemichod Alessandro D'Amore Alessandro D'Amore In Andrew Cutajar Arvydas Merfeldas David Lappin Eimantas Plekavicius Francesco Fiore Giovanna Dimartino Idan Levy Luca Tramaglino Marco Grandetti Mark Vella Matthew Micallef Nikola Minovic Panteleimon Michalakellis

04-10-2024 01:05 UTC+2

Day 2 Seat Draw

Maxime Taldir

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

TABLE	SEAT	PLAYER	COUNTRY	CHIP COUNT	BIG BLINDS
1	1	Giovanni Impollonia	Italy	256,000	32
1	2	Sergio Riitano	Italy	227,000	28
1	3	Hugo Loustau	France	516,000	65
1	4	Andreas Putz	Germany	434,000	54
1	5	Sebastiano Di Maria	Italy	62,000	8
1	6	Salvatore Patti	Italy	308,000	39
1	7	Panteleimon Rontos	Greece	103,000	13
1	8	Marko Luksa	Serbia	216,000	27

2	1	Fabio Peluso	Italy	648,000	81
2	2	Marco Buholzer	Switzerland	326,000	41
2	3	Marco Vannini	Italy	189,000	24
2	4	Paulius Binkis	Lithuania	277,000	35
2	5	Paul Minzariu	Romania	24,000	3
2	6	Scott Baione	United States	244,000	31
2	7	Gian Luca Proietti	Italy	532,000	67
2	8	Nikolaos Ktenas	Greece	119,000	15

3	1	Mattia Ridi	Italy	638,000	80
3	2	Srdan Milicevic		265,000	33
3	3	Tadas Stasiulis	Lithuania	156,000	20
3	4	Marc Sanz Clausin	Spain	176,000	22
3	5	Daniel Aguilera Manchado	Spain	159,000	20
3	6	Alessandro Comi	Italy	262,000	33
3	7	Mateusz Asztemborski	Poland	268,000	34
3	8	Ionut Dragomir	Romania	311,000	39

4	1	Aschraf Khader	Germany	517,000	65
4	2	Salvatore Ritrovato	Italy	204,000	26
4	3	Kenneth Borg	Malta	216,000	27
4	4	Daniele Degennaro	Italy	332,000	42
4	5	Jokubas Jancevicius	Lithuania	317,000	40
4	6	Rytis Pranarauskas	Lithuania	105,000	13
4	7	Matthew Andrews	Cananda	129,000	16
4	8	Georgios Xydakis	Greece	71,000	9

5	1	Irina Barauske	Lithuania	202,000	25
5	2	William Meeuwisse	Sweden	398,000	50
5	3	Giovanna Dimartino	Italy	174,000	22
5	4	Hans Erlandsson	Sweden	440,000	55
5	5	Dimitrios Gkatzas	Greece	176,000	22
5	6	Paschalis Papadopoulos	Greece	485,000	61
5	7	Marcel Martz	Germany	78,000	10
5	8	Xavier Zuczkowski	Italy	50,000	6

6	1	Arvydas Merfeldas	Lithuania	531,000	66
6	2	Georgios Mellidis	Greece	117,000	15
6	3	Giuseppe Grupposo	Italy	138,000	17
6	4	Yevhen Sukhov	Ukraine	92,000	12
6	5	Javier Cabera Romas	Spain	619,000	77
6	6	Matthew Micallef	Malta	500,000	63
6	7	Lukas Rutkauskas	Lithuania	61,000	8
6	8	Gianni Siclet	Italy	157,000	20

7	1	Alessandro D'Amore	Italy	644,000	81
7	2	Theo Funks	Germany	243,000	30
7	3	Vangelis Kaimakamis	Greece	177,000	22
7	4	Luigi Pignataro	Italy	528,000	66
7	5	Lukas Riedinger	Germany	40,000	5
7	6	Idan Levy	Romania	328,000	41
7	7	Karol Bogusz	Poland	74,000	9
7	8	Hiroya Oki	Japan	138,000	17

8	1	Nikola Minovic	Serbia	85,000	11
8	2	Augusto Hotvedt Helfner	Norway	460,000	58
8	3	Eimantas Plekavicius	Lithuania	93,000	12
8	4	Tiago Serrazina	Portugal	311,000	39
8	5	Andrew Cutajar	Malta	586,000	73
8	6	Domenico Tortomasi	Italy	117,000	15
8	7	Tomasz Brzezinski	Poland	303,000	38
8	8	Emmanoyha Chalkiotis	Greece	166,000	21

9	1	Francesco Fiore	Italy	335,000	42
9	2	Nikolaos Ntintis	Greece	37,000	5
9	3	Fabio Di Cosimo	Italy	159,000	20
9	5	Mark Vella	Malta	431,000	54
9	6	Michail Tastanis	Greece	255,000	32
9	7	Lorenzo Di Blasi	Italy	235,000	29
9	8	Nikolai Ivanov	Russia	300,000	38

10	1	Giuseppe Razza	Italy	305,000	38
10	2	Massimo Artemi	Italy	188,000	24
10	3	Filippo Marasa	Italy	281,000	35
10	4	Luca Tramaglino	Switzerland	34,000	4
10	5	Andreas Irchner	Germany	49,000	6
10	6	Tristan Taylor	United Kingdom	121,000	15
10	8	Jonathan Gosseye	Belgium	191,000	24

11	1	Adrian Ziemichod	Poland	173,000	22
11	3	Sebastian Berres	Germany	164,000	21
11	4	Alessio Bergamo	Italy	131,000	16
11	5	Flaviano Cammisuli	Italy	400,000	50
11	6	Mohamed Aissani	France	700,000	88
11	7	Krisztian Kis	Hungary	190,000	24
11	8	Sergiy Alariki	Ukraine	329,000	41

12	1	Giulio Spampinato	Italy	223,000	28
12	3	David Lappin	Ireland	332,000	42
12	4	Enrico Grella	Italy	644,000	81
12	5	Vladas Burneikis	Lithuania	308,000	39
12	6	Eyal Saidof	Israel	449,000	56
12	7	Panteleimon Michalakellis	Greece	337,000	42
12	8	Yong Cheong Foo	Singapore	152,000	19

13	1	Andrea Melluzzo	Italy	77000	10
13	2	Theodoros Ampelikiotis	Greece	320000	40
13	3	Marco Grandetti	Italy	583,000	73
13	5	Alessandro Angotti	Italy	101,000	13
13	6	Marian Jakoczi	Slovakia	26,000	3
13	7	Martin Fricker	Germany	276,000	35
13	8	Rafal Kaczmarski	Poland	291,000	36

04-10-2024 01:05 UTC+2

Day 1 Turbo Chip Counts

Maxime Taldir

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Helfner Augusto Hotvedt	460,000

Flaviano Cammisuli	400,000 400,000	400,000
Daniele Degennaro	332,000 332,000	332,000
Sergiy Alariki	329,000 329,000	329,000
Giuseppe Razza	305,000 305,000	305,000
Marko Luksa	216,000 216,000	216,000
Massimo Artemi	188,000 188,000	188,000
Dimitrios Gkatzas	176,000 176,000	176,000
Sebastian Berres	164,000 164,000	164,000
Yong Cheong Foo	152,000 152,000	152,000
Alessandro Angotti	101,000 101,000	101,000

04-10-2024 01:04 UTC+2

Day 1d Chip Counts

Maxime Taldir

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Mohamed Aissani	700,000 700,000	700,000

Mattia Ridi	638,000 638,000	638,000
Eyal Saidof	449,000 449,000	449,000
Hans Erlandsson	440,000 440,000	440,000
Vladas Burneikis	308,000 308,000	308,000
Giovanni Impollonia	256,000 256,000	256,000
Scott Baione	244,000 244,000	244,000
Salvatore Ritrovato	204,000 204,000	204,000
Irina Barauske	202,000 202,000	202,000
Daniel Aguilera Manchado	159,000 159,000	159,000
Gianni Siclet	157,000 157,000	157,000
Nikolaos Ktenas	119,000 119,000	119,000
Rytis Pranarauskas	105,000 105,000	105,000
Xavier Zuczkowski	50,000 50,000	50,000
Paul Minzariu	24,000 24,000	24,000

04-10-2024 01:03 UTC+2

Day 1c Chip Counts (full)

Maxime Taldir

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Alessandro D'Amore	644,000 134,000	134,000

Andrew Cutajar	586,000 286,000	286,000
Marco Grandetti	583,000 -37,000	-37,000
Arvydas Merfeldas	531,000 491,000	491,000
Matthew Micallef	500,000 -70,000	-70,000
Mark Vella	431,000 431,000	431,000
Panteleimon Michalakellis	337,000 -63,000	-63,000
Francesco Fiore	335,000 -200,000	-200,000
David Lappin	332,000 142,000	142,000

Idan Levy	328,000 68,000	68,000
Marco Buholzer	326,000
Jokubas Jancevicius	317,000 177,000	177,000
Salvatore Patti	308,000 -43,000	-43,000
Alessandro Comi	262,000 -48,000	-48,000
Marco Vannini	189,000
Marc Sanz Clausin	176,000 10,000	10,000
Giovanna Dimartino	174,000 -36,000	-36,000
Adrian Ziemichod	173,000 127,000	127,000
Emmanoyha Chalkiotis	166,000 -20,000	-20,000
Fabio Di Cosimo	159,000
Tadas Stasiulis	156,000 -4,000	-4,000
Giuseppe Grupposo	138,000 13,000	13,000
Alessio Bergamo	131,000 91,000	91,000
Matthew Andrews	129,000 -6,000	-6,000
Georgios Mellidis	117,000 -28,000	-28,000

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04-10-2024 00:58 UTC+2

David Lappin Qualified for Day 2

Maxime Taldir

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

https://twitter.com/dklappin/status/1777829528665989596

04-10-2024 00:55 UTC+2

End of Day 1c

Maxime Taldir

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

The 29 remaining players of Day 1c are now qualified for Day 2 and in the money.

Stay tuned for full updated chip counts and a recap of the night's action that will be available shortly.

04-10-2024 00:50 UTC+2

Maldonato Runs Into Aces to Become the Bubble-Boy

Maxime Taldir

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Everybody gathered around Table 6 as Marco Buholzer's 153,000 chip-stack was called by Nikola Minovic.

But before they flipped over their cards, a hand still underway between Daniele Maldonato in middle position and Francesco Fiore in the small blind. In this three-bet pot, they eventually moved all-in, with Maldonato at risk.

Daniele Maldonato: 10♣10♦ All in
Francesco Fiore: A♠A♦