PokerNews to Live Report the Upcoming Malta Poker Festival Autumn

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Oct 17, 2025 3 min read Last updated Oct 20, 2025

The Malta Poker Festival Autumn is on the horizon and will consist of a week of action at Portomaso Casino in Malta with €500,000 in guaranteed prize pools across more than a dozen events.

The Malta Poker Festival Autumn will take place Oct. 26-Nov. 3 and will culminate with the €550 buy-in MPF Grand Event. PokerNews will be on-site to live report the MPF Grand Main Event, a four-day tournament that will play to a winner on Nov. 3.

Seven Starting Flights

The Malta Poker Festival takes place twice a year and draws poker players from all over Europe.

The Autumn edition will kick off with a special-priced flight of the MPF Grand Event, allowing players to get in for just €400. There will be seven total starting flights in the Grand Event, the last being a turbo flight on Nov. 1.

The biggest buy-ins of the series include the €1,000 UDSO Gold Highroller and the Super Highroller hosted by €1,400 Alexandra O’Brien.

Other highlights of the upcoming Malta Poker Festival Autumn include a €150 Bounty Hunter Days Malta event, a €200 Ladies First hosted by Ann-Ross Callens, and the €235 Scandinavian Open Poker Championship.

There will also be some chances to get festive on Oct. 31 with the €300 MPF Halloween Special hosted by Caroline Cove.

Last Time in Malta

At the Malta Poker Festival Spring festival earlier this year, the €550 Grand Event drew 1,202 runners for a prize pool of €555,940. Italy's Aurelio Vallone had an emotional victory as he defeated heads-up opponent Carsten Mawick to win €94,600.

"This is a very emotional moment for me — all the tournament was really insane," Vallone told PokerNews. "I sometimes ran good and sometimes ran bad, but I had four big blinds at the last two tables, so to be here is amazing."

The international final table featured players from Germany (Mawick), the United Kingdom (Alexander Maskell), Norway (Egon Holdhus) and North Macedonia (Dragan Ignjatovski).

2025 Malta Poker Festival Spring Grand Event Final Table Results

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The full schedule for the upcoming Malta Poker Festival is available in the table below. For more information about the festival, head to themaltapokerfestival.com.

Malta Poker Festival Schedule

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Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Outside Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for three Global Poker Awards for his writing.

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