Do you fancy taking a trip to sunny Malta to compete in The Festival in Malta Main Event? What if we told you that you could be jetting off to the Portomaso Casino in St. Julian's to play in a €550 buy-in Main Event, having only spent €7.50? With Paddy Power Poker, you can do precisely this.
The Festival in Malta runs from September 11-20. It features a pair of Main Events, each costing €550 to enter. One Main Event is a traditional No-Limit Hold'em tournament, while the other is a T.O.R.S.E.S. mixed game where players compete across 2-7 Triple Draw, Omaha Hi-Lo, Razz, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo, and Sviten Special.
Paddy Power Poker is one of the online poker operators running satellites for The Festival in Malta. Those satellites come in two guises: €70 buy-ins that award €550 seats only, and €100 buy-ins that award packages worth €1,850. Let's focus on the latter of those two.
Win a €1,850 The Festival Package
Although the package-awarding satellites command a €100 buy-in, feeder satellites run around the clock. Those feeder satellites start from only €7.50.
Whether you're using a €100 ticket you won or buying in directly, you'll need to find the next available The Festival Malta 5x€1,850|D1 tournament. Here, you'll sit down with 10,000 chips and play to 10-minute levels, with blinds starting at 50/100/10a.
The latest Day 1s last is until the end of Level 16. Any players with chips in front of them at that point advance to Day 2, where the top five finishers are guaranteed an €1,850 package, with additional packages added to the prize pool for every €1,850 more than the €9,250 guarantee.
You are permitted to play in as many of these Day 1s as your bankroll allows, but only your biggest stack is in play on Day 2 if you progress more than once.
The next available Day 2 begins at 8:30 p.m. on August 9, with another scheduled for the same time on August 16.
Get your hands on a The Festival in Malta €1,850 package, and you'll receive the following:
Six nights' hotel accommodation (September 14-20)
€550 The Festival 2026 Main Event ticket
The Festival Cap
€250 Travel Expenses credited to your account
Hospitality package
The Festival in Malta 2026 Schedule
As previously mentioned, The Festival in Malta features a pair of Main Events, and you can use the seat you won for either of them. The €550 T.O.R.S.E.S. Main Event runs from September 13-15, with the No-Limit Hold'em edition running September 15-20.
Twelve months ago, the €550 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event drew in 666 entrants, who created a €316,550 prize pool. Portugal's Nuno Morais was the player who emerged victorious in St. Julian's, earning a career-best €61,001 for his efforts.
Expand the table below to see the exciting The Festival in Malta schedule in all of its glory. Note the wide variety of buy-ins, formats, and variants.
Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.
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