€560 Main Event
Day 1cd Completed
€560 Main Event
Day 1cd Completed
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).
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!
TABLE | SEAT | PLAYER | COUNTRY | PAYS | CHIP COUNT | BIG BLINDS |
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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 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Helfner Augusto Hotvedt | 460,000 | |
|
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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 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mohamed Aissani |
700,000
700,000
|
700,000 |
|
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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 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Alessandro D'Amore |
644,000
134,000
|
134,000 |
|
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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 |
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.
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♦
Francesco Fiore: A♠A♦
Against aces, Maldonato couldn't do much on 2♥9♦6♣J♥J♣ and he was eliminated on the bubble.
Once this hand was over, Buholzer and Minovic revealed their cards.
Marco Buholzer: A♠K♣
Nikola Minovic: A♦Q♦
The dealer fanned a board of 8♦J♣2♣10♣J♦ and made Buholzer double up.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Francesco Fiore |
535,000
345,000
|
345,000 |
Marco Buholzer |
326,000
156,000
|
156,000 |
Nikola Minovic |
82,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
Daniele Maldonato
|
Busted |
Level: 17
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000