€550 Grand Event Day 1d | 2022 Malta Poker Festival Spring

04-30-2022 00:06 UTC+2

Lombardo Decimated by Cosmin's Shove

Chris Bean

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Nica Cosmin raised to 6,000 in early position. Simone Lombardo three-bet to 18,500 from the button. Cosmin fired back with a four-bet all-in for 115,000 and was snap called by the Italian.

Nica Cosmin:
Simone Lombardo:

The flop of gave a glimmer of hope to Cosmin, the put the Romanian ahead. There was no help for Lombardo on the river and loses a hefty chunk of his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nica Cosmin	232,000 110,000	110,000
Simone Lombardo	85,000 185,000	185,000

04-29-2022 23:58 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Jonathan Bradley	Busted
Seyed Hack	Busted
Lukas Wahlster	Busted
Uwe Ziegler	Busted
Manduca Borg	Busted

Strangeways in the Clink

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Chris Bean

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Paul Strangeways moved all-in for 41,500 from under the gun and was called by Luigi D'Alterio to his direct left. Everyone else folds.

Paul Strangeways:
Luigi D'Alterio:

Strangeways walked into D'Alterio's pocket aces and there was no help on a board of . Strangeways heads to the exit.

04-29-2022 23:50 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Florian Guertler	100,000 100,000	100,000
Thomas Noske	Busted

River Gives Heggelmann Chip Lead

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Calum Grant

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Niko Heggelmann opened to 6,500 from the hijack before Koppany Balogh made it 18,000 on the button. Heggelmann four-bet to 56,000 and Balogh paused. He waited about 30 seconds before moving all-in for 137,500.

Heggelmann, who was the covering stack, asked for a count. He eventually slid in his chips to set up the all-in showdown.

Koppany Balogh:
Niko Heggelmann:

Balogh had his opponent drawing extremely thin on the flop and looked to scoop a massive double on the turn.

For some reason, Balogh called for a ten on the river. And that's exactly what came in the form of the river.

The table erupted and Balogh congratulated Heggelmann who let out a huge sigh of relief.

Player	Chips	Progress
Niko Heggelmann	301,500 121,500	121,500
Koppany Balogh	Busted

04-29-2022 23:27 UTC+2

Chip Counts at the Final Break

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Chris Bean

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Sami Pulliainen	290,000 290,000	290,000
Simon Yili Ye	275,000 275,000	275,000
Pawel Zawadowicz	272,000 272,000	272,000

Federico Cirillo	230,000 230,000	230,000
Sebastian Blomer	206,000 206,000	206,000
Niko Heggelmann	180,000 180,000	180,000
Peter Laufersweiler	180,000 180,000	180,000
Martyn Frey	178,000
Robert Lim	159,000 119,000	119,000
Anne-Marie Yuen	150,000 70,000	70,000
Katherine Arnsby	130,500 130,500	130,500