Level: 5
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
2025 Malta Poker Festival Spring
€550 Grand Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2025 Malta Poker Festival Spring
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
Buy-in
€550
Prize Pool
€555,940
Entries
1,202
Level
32
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
800,000
Entries
82
Players Left
12
Players Left 1 / 1,202
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Level 5
: Blinds 400/800, 800 ante
Jaime Lozano Diaz opened to 1,600, and got two callers, before Karl Gustavsson produced a three-bet to 8,000 from the small blind.
Action folded back to Diaz, who four-bet jammed for around 50,000. Gustavsson went into the tank, and ultimately folded, seemingly reluctantly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
70,000 | |
|
42,000 |
Level 5
: Blinds 400/800, 800 ante
Frank Stacker opened to 2,500 from the button, and received calls from Richard Horvath and Bob Jansen in the blinds.
The A♥A♦4♥ flop was checked through to the 3♥ turn, where action was checked to Stacker.
He fired out a bet of 5,000, leading to swift folds from both of his opponents.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
145,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
85,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
|
20,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Level 5
: Blinds 400/800, 800 ante
Leo Walker opened to 1,600 from the button, and Simon Dunevein defended in the big blind.
Dunevein check-called in the face of a bet of 900 from Walker on the Q♥Q♣9♦ flop.
The 10♥ hit on the turn, and Dunevein again check-called, this time in respect of a bet of 3,200 from Walker.
The 2♣ river was checked through, and Walker mucked when Dunevein tabled J♣10♠ for two pair, queens and tens.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
80,000 | |
|
44,000 |
Level 5
: Blinds 400/800, 800 ante
A pot of 16,500 had developed by the turn on a board of A♣9♣7♦5♥, in a hand between Simon Gustavsson on the button and Pavle Pecelj in the big blind.
Pecelj fired out a bet of 8,000, and after some thought, Gustavsson called.
The A♦ river paired the board, and Pecelj quickly check-folded versus a jam from Gustavsson of around 17,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
65,000 | |
|
62,000
62,000
|
62,000 |
Level: 6
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
Level 6
: Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Stefan Koie opened to 3,500 under the gun, and received a call, before Joris Ruijs produced a three-bet to 13,000 from middle position.
Action folded to Koie, who moved all in for 15,200 total, and Ruijs made up the difference.
Stefan Koie: Q♥Q♣
Joris Ruijs: 8♦8♠
Koie had Ruijs crushed with an overpair, and nothing altered on the 9♠3♥2♠3♦9♦ runout.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
75,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
33,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
Level 6
: Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Santiago Benz was getting up out of his chair, after busting to Leo Walker - Walker's Q♣Q♥ being good over the J♥6♥5♠10♦7♦ runout.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
65,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 6
: Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Stefan Koie three-bet jammed for around 35,000 on a flop of Q♠J♥8♥, after he led out with a bet of 2,500, but was met with a raise to 10,000 by Steven Penney. Penney quickly made the call with the covering stack.
Stefan Koie: Q♥10♦ 
Steven Penney: 10♣9♣
Koie had top pair and a gutshot, but he was drawing to a chop versus Penney's flopped straight. The Q♣ turn gave Koie some extra outs to the full house, but the 3♦ river was a brick.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
112,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Level 6
: Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Mihai Norocel opened to 2,000 from early position, and received a call from James Paris in the next.
PokerNews ambassador Lukas Robinson was in the big blind, and after some thought, he three-bet jammed for 22,000, leading to swift folds from both of his opponents.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
55,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
48,000 | |
|
27,000 | |
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