Welcome to Day 1a of the 2022 Spring Malta Poker Festival Grand Event
After nearly three years of cancellations and postponements, the spring edition of The Malta Poker Festival is soon to begin with Day 1a of the €300,000 guaranteed €550 buy-in Grand Event .
The festival, organised by Ivonne Montealegre, is a great stepping stone for recreation poker players and has a loyal and passionate community that helps make it the premier poker series on the island.
Day 1a gets underway at 2 p.m. local time and players receive a starting stack of 50,000.
Starting flights will close after 13 levels of action, all of which last 40-minutes.
Late registration is open until the end of the break that follows Level 8 and each participant is permitted two re-entries per flight.
Malta Poker Festival Grand Event Schedule
DATE | TIME (CET) | BUY-IN | EVENT |
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Tue, 26 Apr | 2 p.m. | € 550 | MPF Grand Event Day 1A |
Wed, 27 Apr | 2 p.m. | € 550 | MPF Grand Event Day 1B |
Thurs, 28 Apr | 2 p.m. | € 550 | MPF Grand Event Day 1C |
Fri, 29 Apr | 2 p.m. | € 550 | MPF Grand Event Day 1D |
Sat, 30 Apr | 2 p.m. | € 550 | MPF Grand Event Day 1E |
Sat, 30 Apr | 9 p.m. | € 550 | MPF Grand Event Day 1F |
Sun, 1 May | 2 p.m. | - | MPF Grand Event Day 2 |
Mon, 2 May | 2 p.m. | - | MPF Grand Event Day 3 |
Past Malta Poker Festival Grand Event Champions
Italy's Emanuele Onnis was the inaugural MPF Main Event winner, outlasting 1,365 other entries. He took home the €150,000 top prize after despatching Fabian Gumz at heads-up.
Tomas Sujeta was the Grand Event champion in 2019 and collected the €150,000 up top. The 2019 field attracted a healthy 1,324-entries with Israel's Dmitri Dan finishing as the runner-up.
Year | Name | Country | Entries | Event | Prize (EUR) | Prizepool |
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2018 | Emanuele Onnis | Italy | 1,366 | MPF Grand Event 2018 | €150,000 | €662,510 |
2019 | Tomas Sujeta | Lithuania | 1,324 | MPF Grand Event 2019 | €150,000 | €642,140 |
MPF Grand Event Day 1 Structure
LEVEL | Duration | Small Blind | Big blind | ANTE |
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1 | 40 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
2 | 40 | 100 | 200 | 200 |
3 | 40 | 200 | 300 | 300 |
15 minute break | ||||
4 | 40 | 200 | 400 | 400 |
5 | 40 | 300 | 600 | 600 |
6 | 40 | 400 | 800 | 800 |
15 minute break | ||||
7 | 40 | 500 | 1000 | 1000 |
8 | 40 | 600 | 1200 | 1200 |
9 | 40 | 1000 | 1500 | 1500 |
75 minute dinner break | ||||
10 | 40 | 1000 | 2000 | 2000 |
11 | 40 | 1500 | 2500 | 2500 |
12 | 40 | 1500 | 3000 | 3000 |
13 | 40 | 2000 | 4000 | 4000 |
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