€550 Grand Event Day 1b | 2018 Malta Poker Festival

11-02-2018 21:47 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Grazia Caruso	134,000 19,000	19,000
Dario Marinelli	57,000 32,000	32,000
Monika Zukowicz	47,000 11,000	11,000

Antoine Degiorgio	35,000 35,000	35,000
Shiyan Fang	34,000 9,000	9,000
Daiva Byrne	33,500 1,500	1,500
Andrew Hedley	33,000 8,000	8,000
Cat Winch-Johnson	25,500 -8,500	-8,500

Koop Doing Better on his Second Bullet

Shirley Ang

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

Niko Koop raised to 1,500 from mid-position and was called by Marcus Mattheas in the hijack and Andreas Uhde in the big blind.

The flop came , Uhde checked, Koop continued with a bet of 2,500 which only Mattheas called.

The turn was the , Koop now bet 5,000 and Mattheas called again.

The river completed the board with the , Koop fired a bet of 10,000 over the line and Mattheas decided to give up on the hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andreas Uhde	76,000
Niko Koop	44,000 44,000	44,000

Tags: Andreas Uhde Niko Koop

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

11-02-2018 22:17 UTC+2

Ibald Plays an "Great" Hand

Shirley Ang

Level 8 : 400/800, 100 ante

Donna Morton limped in from mid-position and Karl-Tim Ibald raised to 2,500 from the button and was only called by Christian Gamsjager in the big blind.

The flop came , Gamsjager check-folded to the 2,500 continuation-bet of Ibald.

"Did you see that great hand?" Ibald commented to the PokerNews live reporting team.

Player	Chips	Progress
Christian Gamsjager	55,000 23,575	23,575
Donna Morton	30,700 14,700	14,700
Karl-Tim Ibald	18,500 -6,500	-6,500

Tags: Christian Gamsjager Karl-Tim Ibald

11-02-2018 22:31 UTC+2

Recent Eliminations

Shirley Ang

Level 8 : 400/800, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ann-Roos Callens	Busted
Wouter Schuurbiers	Busted
Trifon Pappas	Busted
Kework Besiktasliyan	Busted
David Lappin	Busted

Steven Penny	Busted

Level: 9

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

11-02-2018 23:20 UTC+2

Siena Eliminates Lindstrom

Shirley Ang

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Grazia Caruso limped in from under the gun, Alessandro Siena raised to 4,000 from early position, Davorin Stefanovic called in mid-position and so did James Clark in the lojack. Alexander Lindstrom shoved from the small blind for 15,800 in total. Andrew Hedley folded his big blind and Caruso also got out of the way. Siena looked at the shove and decided to shove too with the bigger stack. Both Stefanovic and Clark quickly folded.

Alexander Lindstrom:
Alessandro Siena:

The board ran out for Siena to stay ahead throughout the board and improved on the river to make a pair to eliminate Lindstrom from the Grand Event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ilana Belski	145,000 145,000	145,000
Davorin Stefanovic	135,000 135,000	135,000
Grazia Caruso	80,000 -54,000	-54,000
Alessandro Siena	62,000 62,000	62,000
James Clark	53,000 53,000	53,000
Andrew Hedley	47,200 14,200	14,200
[Removed:155]	29,700 29,700	29,700
Alexander Lindstrom	Busted