2022 Malta Poker Festival Spring

€550 Grand Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2022 Malta Poker Festival Spring

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a5
Prize
€71,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€550
Prize Pool
€486,720
Entries
1,014
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
300,000 / 600,000
Ante
600,000
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
118
Players Left
31

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Welcome to Day 1a of the 2022 Spring Malta Poker Festival Grand Event

Tomas Sujeta wins the 2019 Malta Poker Festival Grand Event
Tomas Sujeta wins the 2019 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

DATETIME (CET)BUY-INEVENT
Tue, 26 Apr2 p.m.€ 550MPF Grand Event Day 1A
Wed, 27 Apr2 p.m.€ 550MPF Grand Event Day 1B
Thurs, 28 Apr2 p.m.€ 550MPF Grand Event Day 1C
Fri, 29 Apr2 p.m.€ 550MPF Grand Event Day 1D
Sat, 30 Apr2 p.m.€ 550MPF Grand Event Day 1E
Sat, 30 Apr9 p.m.€ 550MPF Grand Event Day 1F
Sun, 1 May2 p.m.-MPF Grand Event Day 2
Mon, 2 May2 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.

Past MPF Grand Event Champions Emanuele Onnis (Left) and Tomas Sujeta (Right)
Past MPF Grand Event Champions Emanuele Onnis (Left) and Tomas Sujeta (Right)
YearNameCountryEntriesEventPrize (EUR)Prizepool
2018Emanuele OnnisItaly1,366MPF Grand Event 2018€150,000€662,510
2019Tomas SujetaLithuania1,324MPF Grand Event 2019€150,000€642,140

MPF Grand Event Day 1 Structure

LEVELDurationSmall BlindBig blindANTE
140100100100
240100200200
340200300300
  15 minute break  
440200400400
540300600600
640400800800
  15 minute break  
74050010001000
84060012001200
940100015001500
  75 minute dinner break  
1040100020002000
1140150025002500
1240150030003000
1340200040004000

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€550 Grand Event

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