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

11-03-2018 23:29 UTC+1

Player	Chips	Progress
Laurens Van De Sype	160,000

Yigal Shneider	150,000
Charlo Azzopardi	147,000
Robert Richmond	113,000
Marco Marinacci	110,000
Jona Wilmsmann	108,000 5,000	5,000
Vygerdas Jonikas	100,000
Irena Macesovic	100,000
Eivind Dahle	12,000

Tulek Takes it Down

Shirley Ang

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Gabriel Petrea shoved all in for his last 7,000 from the hijack and Paris Fernandez three-bet to 12,800 from the button. Murat Tulek contemplated for a few seconds and then announced he was also all-in for around 58,000 in total. Fernandez took his time to consider his options and then decided to fold.

Gabriel Petrea:
Murat Tulek;

The board ran out to not provide any help to Petrea as Tulek hit a pair of kings on the turn to eliminate him.

Player	Chips	Progress
Murat Tulek	89,000 56,000	56,000
Gabriel Petrea	Busted

Tags: Gabriel Petrea Murat Tulek Paris Fernandez

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

11-03-2018 23:50 UTC+1

Last Batch of Today's Pictures

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Shirley Ang

11-04-2018 00:12 UTC+1

Downstairs Chip Counts

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Shirley Ang

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniele Grasso	280,000 280,000	280,000
Andy Hills	150,000 900	900

David Nir	140,000 140,000	140,000
Nadav Lipszyc	140,000
Omri Zaidman	90,000 15,500	15,500
Jesper Hougaard	80,000 25,000	25,000

Mark Vella	75,000 32,000	32,000
Niko Koop	54,000 54,000	54,000
Colin Lovelock	54,000 38,000	38,000
Espen Engevik	53,000 16,000	16,000
Steven Iglesias	45,000 15,000	15,000
Leo Worthington-Leese	Busted
Kework Besiktasliyan	Busted

11-04-2018 00:19 UTC+1

Grella Gets Rid of Yerema

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Shirley Ang

Level 11 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Oleksii Yerema was all-in for around 24,000 from the lojack and called by Enrico Grella in the hijack. Nobody else wanted to get involved in the pot.

Oleksii Yerema:
Enrico Grella:

The board ran out for Grella's queen to hold and eliminate Yerema from the Grand Event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Enrico Grella	100,000 100,000	100,000
Carl Redemo	50,000 50,000	50,000
Oleksi Yerema	Busted

Tags: Enrico Grella Oleksii Yerema

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300

11-04-2018 00:45 UTC+1

Zegal Doubles Through Marinacci

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Shirley Ang

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Marco Marinacci had called the all-in of Stanislav Zegal for 31,500 from the early position after having raised and Zegal was in the cutoff.

Stanislav Zegal:
Marco Marinacci:

The board ran out for Zegal to hit a pair of aces on the river to double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matthew Marcus	190,000
Laurens Van De Sype	160,000

Murat Tulek	100,000 91,100	91,100
Marco Marinacci	100,000 10,000	10,000
Gary Banks	95,000 67,000	67,000
Stanislav Zegal	69,000

James Noonan	13,200 13,200	13,200

Tags: Marco Marinacci Stanislav Zegal

11-04-2018 01:05 UTC+1

Rebibo Almost Takes Two Out

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Shirley Ang

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Ben Burnhill shoved all in for 25,000 from mid-position and so did Jason Glatzer in the cutoff with the bigger stack. Pinchas Rebibo called in the small blind with a similar stack to see all the cards go on their backs.

Ben Burnhill:
Jason Glatzer:
Pinchas Rebibo:

The flop came to give Burnhill the straight draw to stay alive.

The turn was the which now gave both Glatzer and Rebibo the flush draw with Rebibo holding the ace for the nut-flush.

The river completed the board with the which gave both Glatzer and Rebibo the flush indeed with Rebibo having the nuts. Burnhill was done and so was Glatzer as far as he was aware as he got up from his chair until he got told that he probably had Rebibo covered. The dealer counted it all out again and after paying Rebibo the double-up, Glatzer was left with 3,900 which he lost shortly after.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pinchas Rebibo	133,000 133,000	133,000
Ben Burnhill	Busted
Jason Glatzer	Busted

Tags: Jason Glatzer Pinchas Rebibo Ben Burnhill

11-04-2018 01:15 UTC+1

Break

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Shirley Ang

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

The 180 remaining players have been sent for the last 15-minute break of the night. After the break, the players will play 2 more levels of 45-minutes each.