Luigi D'Alterio Leads the Pack of 65 in Day 1d of the MPF €550 Grand Event

Day 1d of the Malta Poker Festival Spring Grand Event at Portomaso Casino, Malta is in the books with 65 players out of 252 entries advancing to Day 2 on Sunday, May 1.

The €300,000 guarantee has been smashed with two flights still to be played. The current prize pool has swelled to €334,560.

Italy's Luigi D'Alterio leads the way on 538,000 chips, whose stack was boosted by knocking out Paul Strangeways along the way.

The two other players who breached the half-million mark are Gregory Luttke-Grech (503,000) and Robert Lim (502,000).

Serdar Demircan advanced to Day 2 with a stack of 350,000 despite doubling up Christodoulos Adamou twice in the space of two hands.

Simone Lombardo made it to the next stage with 131,000 chips despite losing a massive pot with Nica Cosmin.

The Woman's Poker Association's Christina Read made a massive turnaround after falling to 15,000 chips early on. Read managed to regroup and finished the day with 277,000 to put her in contention on Sunday,

MPF Grand Event Top Ten Stacks

Place	Name	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Luigi D'Alterio	Italy	538,000	108
2	Gregory Luttke-Grech	France	503,000	101
3	Robert Lim	United Kingdom	502,000	100
4	Charif Akhoun	France	463,000	93
5	Simon Yili Ye	Sweden	459,000	92
6	Paul Morris	United Kingdom	451,000	90
7	Herbert Seitz	Germany	404,000	81
8	Pawel Zawadowicz	Poland	399,000	80
9	Serdar Demircan	Sweden	350,000	70
10	Stavros Tsakas	Greece	340,000	68

Malta Poker Festival Spring Grand Event Schedule

DATE	TIME (CET)	BUY-IN	EVENT	Entries	Advanced
Tue, 26 Apr	2 p.m.	€ 550	MPF Grand Event Day 1A	118	31
Wed, 27 Apr	2 p.m.	€ 550	MPF Grand Event Day 1B	136	35
Thurs, 28 Apr	2 p.m.	€ 550	MPF Grand Event Day 1C	191	53
Fri, 29 Apr	2 p.m.	€ 550	MPF Grand Event Day 1D	252	65
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