2012 World Poker Tour Malta

Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2012 World Poker Tour Malta

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a3
Prize
€120,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€3,000
Prize Pool
€491,790
Entries
169
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0

Cajelais Busted, O'Brien Soaring

Dan O'Brien didn't last too long at WPT Paris when he busted on the first day, but something tells us that he will be around a little longer at WPT Malta. He is currently sitting on a monster stack of 93,000 and he was kind enough to explain how he managed to garner such an impressive stack of chips.

Firstly, he flopped middle set on a {J-}{10-}{6-} board to get a decent chunk of change against pocket kings, and then he eliminated Erik Cajelais kings versus jacks to add a further 25,000 chips.

Player Chips Progress
Dan O'Brien us
Dan O'Brien
93,000
Erik Cajelais ca
Erik Cajelais
Busted

Tags: Dan O'BrienErik Cajelais

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

Marvin Rettenmaier Eliminated

Marvin Rettenmaier
Marvin Rettenmaier

PartyPoker sponsored pro Marvin Rettenmaier has been eliminated but we will be seeing him again tomorrow as he has just informed us that he will be re-entering on Day 1b.

All of Rettenmaier's stack went into the middle on a {A-Spades}{7-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}, Rettenmaier holding {A-Hearts}{k-Clubs} and Cesare Florio holding a dominated {a-Diamonds}{q-Hearts}. Florio may have been well behind but that all changed when the {q-Clubs} appeared on the turn. The {J-Spades} river was no help to Rettenmaier and he was eliminated from WPT Malta.

Player Chips Progress
Marvin Rettenmaier de
Marvin Rettenmaier
Busted
WPT 2X Winner

Tags: Cesare FlorioMarvin Rettenmaier

Selection of Chips

Here are a nice selection of chip counts for you fine people reading this at home.

Player Chips Progress
Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
52,300
23,850
23,850
WPT 1X Winner
Kiryl Radzivonau by
Kiryl Radzivonau
52,275
3,575
3,575
Casey Kastle si
Casey Kastle
45,700
1,100
1,100
[Removed:163]
[Removed:163]
36,100
3,850
3,850
Jonathan Duhamel ca
Jonathan Duhamel
30,000
Cecilia Pescaglini
Cecilia Pescaglini
27,300
-8,700
-8,700
Federico Cipollini it
Federico Cipollini
21,400
-26,100
-26,100
Roger Hairabedian fr
Roger Hairabedian
20,600
7,600
7,600
Arnaud Mattern fr
Arnaud Mattern
17,450
-2,450
-2,450

Radzivonau Costs Kaddoura

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante
Kiryl Radzivonau
Kiryl Radzivonau

Kiyril Radzivonau has just cost the Revive Touch massage girl Lena Kaddoura some business by eliminating Jorryt van Hoof.

Radzivonau opened to 625 from under the gun and the action folded all the way round to van Hoof on the button. He called, as did Emma Suomalainen in the big blind.

The three players saw the dealer fan out the {8-Clubs}{a-Clubs}{j-Diamonds} flop, a flop that was checked to van Hoof on the button. He paused for a couple of seconds before betting 1,300 and only Radzivonau called.

Radzivonau then lead out on a {k-Spades} turn and van Hoof called again, tossing in a 5,000 chip to make it. The {5-Diamonds} on the river was greeted with an all-in bet from Radzivonau, which was an effective bet of around 16,000 because that is all van Hoof had in his stack. As he was contemplating making a call, van Hoof saw the massage girl heading towards him and he said,

"I might be out, if not I would like a massage!"

But that massage will never happen as he made the call, then mucked, when his opponent showed him {q-Hearts}{10-Hearts} for the straight.

Radzinovau is now up to 86,000

Tags: Emma SuomalainenJorryt van HoofKiryl Radzinovau

Rettenmaier Re-Enters

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante

Although he just busted out, Marvin Rettenmaier has re-entered here in Malta. The rules state you can only re-enter on the following day but thanks to the casino allowing a player who had busted out to re-enter (by accident), Rettenmaier was allowed to do the same.

Now the rules have been bent for everyone and whoever busts out before the end of Level 6 will be able to re-enter today! Oops.

Tags: Marvin Rettenmaier

Jeffrey Rossiter Climbs To The Top Of The Chip Counts

Jeffrey Rossiter
Jeffrey Rossiter

Jeffrey Rossiter has just eliminated Jerome Brion and now finds himself at the top of the chip counts. There was a raise to 600 from first position, Rossiter called from the cutoff, Brion three-bet to 2,400, the original raiser folded and Rossiter four-bet to 5,325. Brion got the rest of his stack into the middle and Rossiter snap-called.

Rossiter turned over {A-Hearts}{A-Diamonds} and was nicely in front of the {A-Spades}{K-Diamonds} of Brion. The board ran out {3-Hearts}{3-Spades}{2-Spades}{5-Spades}{q-Clubs} and with that Brion busted and Rossiter flew up the chip counts

Player Chips Progress
Jeffrey Rossiter au
Jeffrey Rossiter
95,000

Tags: Jeffrey RossiterJerome Brion

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50