Just a few hours after Matthew Salsberg, producer of the popular TV series Weeds, took down the WPT Grand Prix de Paris, the main event at WPT Malta kicked off at Portomaso Casino in St.Julians. Day 1a only attacked a field of 64 players willing to pay the €3,300 buy-in. The reason for this might be because of several expensive WCOOP on PokerStrars and/or that WPT Grand Prix de Paris was to c[...] Read more » WPT Malta: Phil Hellmuth Through To Day 2
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
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Pretty big names if you ask me, Malta is such a beautiful location thats pretty close to Europe too so thats probably another reason why so many players decided to join...
Still, it's obviously who has the best chances right now, it's still way too early.
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Location: Portugal
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When several important event take place in a limited period of time, that can obly poker pros to take a decision between which event to go. Phil Hellmuth has three times less chips than the chip leader after day 1, but that still doesn't mean he has made a wrong choice for entering this event. After all, it wasn't very crowded and he made it to day 2. Now he just have to show a bit more of what he can do to see if he gets to the final table.
