Last Day of Starting Flights for 2022 Malta Poker Festival Spring €550 Grand Event

Welcome to Day 1e of 2022 Malta Poker Festival Spring €550 Grand Event, which takes place at the Portomaso Casino, Malta.

Today marks the final two starting flights of the Grand Event, with Day 1e starting at 2 p.m. CEST and Day 1f at 9 p.m. CEST.

Another big turnout is expected with both flights looking to eclipse Day 1d's 252 total entries. Yesterday's turnout also saw the €300,000 guarantee surpassed with the current prizepool at €334,560. That is expected to balloon today and could get close to the €500,000 mark.

From Day 1d, 65 players joined the already advancing 119 entries to bring the number of Day 2 players to 184.

Italy's Luigi D'Alterio bagged best from the fourth starting flight, ending the day with a stack of 538,000 while players like Simone Lombardo and Christina Read also found themselves carrying a sizeable chip stack into the next stage of the event.

Day 1e 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.

There's also plenty happening outside of the Grand Event to keep an eye on. Day 2 of The Hendon Mob Championship is just about to kick off and has a €15,000 first place prize. The €120 APAT Maltese Championship Day 1 gets going at 3 p.m. CEST and the much anticipated €100 Ladies First! tournament begins an hour later.

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

Bounty Hunter Days Malta Final Table Results

The first MPF side event is in the books, with Hakan Uzun, Bianca Jacobs, April Facey and Jack Morris-Holland doing a four-way chop for €4,200 each in the €220 buy-in Bounty Hunter Days Malta event.

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1	Hakan Uzun	Norway	€4,200
2	Bianca Jacobs	Germany	€4,200
3	April Facey	Canada	€4,200
4	Jack Morris-Holland	United Kingdom	€4,200
5	Phillipe Pedraza	France	€1,780
6	Thomas Schaeven	Germany	€1,420
7	Caroline Cove	United Kingdom	€1,100
8	Samuel Biland	France	€770
9	Jozsef Benedek	Hungary	€600

As always, PokerNews has got you covered, bringing you the action as it happens at the Malta Poker Festival Spring.