Day 1c of the 2022 Malta Poker Festival Spring €550 Grand Event kicks off at 2 p.m. CEST at the wonderful Portomaso Casino and is expected to be biggest starting flight yet.
After Day 1b finished, a total of €127,000 is in the prizepool, meaning the event is just shy of half of the €300,000 guarantee. That number is expected to swell when the dust settles on Day 1c.
From Day 1a and 1b, a combined 66 players have booked their place into Sunday's Day 2 and that number is likely to hit triple figures following today's action.
Day 1b was dominated by a host of French players, with five of the biggest stacks being French nationals. Nemo Israel was the player who bagged best, finishing the day with a tournament leading 667,000 chip stack.
Unibet Poker ambassador David Lappin also made it through the first stage with a stack of 92,000.
Day 1c 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.
The first side event of the MPF also gets underway today, the €220 buy-in Bounty Hunter Days Malta event kicks off at 6 p.m. CEST and is expected to be well attended.
MPF Grand Event Day 1 Structure
| LEVEL | Duration | Small Blind | Big blind | ANTE |
|---|
| 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 |
| | | 75 minute dinner break | | |
| 9 | 40 | 1000 | 1500 | 1500 |
| 10 | 40 | 1000 | 2000 | 2000 |
| 11 | 40 | 1500 | 2500 | 2500 |
| | | 15 minute break | | |
| 12 | 40 | 1500 | 3000 | 3000 |
| 13 | 40 | 2000 | 4000 | 4000 |
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 | | |
| 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 | | |
As always, keep it locked in with the PokerNews live reporting team to get all the action from the MPF.
