Poker news tagged with '2015 ept malta'

The 2015 EPT Malta Main Event final table only took four and a half hours to complete. The fact is that it only took 36 hands of play before UK's Niall Farrell and Bosnia & Herzegovina's Alen Bilic were heads-up for the title. 

Read more » EPT Malta: Niall Farrell Lays Hands On Main Event Title (€534,300)

For a long time it looked like Mukul Pahuja would be the champion of the EPT Malta €10,000 High Roller, because he had the lead for much of the final day of play and had close to a four-to-one lead against Byron Kaverman when heads-up began.

Read more » EPT Malta: Byron Kaverman Wins The High Roller!

16 players will return to Portomaso Casino today and battle it out for a seat at the six-handed EPT Malta Main Event final table, where the winner is set to take home €602,400! The man with the biggest stack heading into the fifth day of play is Day 2 chip leader Alexander Ivarsson from Sweden.

Read more » EPT Malta Main Event: Alexander Ivarsson Leads Final 16 (LIVE STREAM at 12:00 CET)

A total of five players will return to Day 4 of the EPT Malta Main Event with over 1 million in chips each, and Poland's Jaroslaw Sikora out in front with 1,457,000! Sikora and his two closets competitors, Alexander Ivarsson and Faraz Jaka, have been among the top stacks since Day 1 and now they and the other remaining 37 players are guaranteed to take home at least €11,840 each.

Read more » EPT Malta Main Event: 40 Players Remain, Faraz Jaka In 3rd Place

Theo Jorgensen has been playing EPT events since the very first season but not once been able to bring back a trophy to his home in Denmark... well, until yesterday that is! The Team PokerStars Pro decided to enter a €1,100 buy-in bounty event (€500 + €500 + €100 fee) last night and defeated 154 other entrants to lay hands on the €16,940 first-place prize, along within bounties and an EPT trophy!

"Only problem now is that I have to sleep with 2 covers on, since I still have goosebumps over how great I played this tourney," Jorgensen told his fans on Facebook following his victory. 

Another day of poker concluded last night at the Portomaso Casino in Malta, with Alexander Ivarsson bagging up the chip lead (529,200) amongst 135 surviving players. Ivarsson, a 27-year old poker pro from Sweden, spoke to PokerStars Blog about his winning streak...

Read more » EPT Malta Main Event: Day 2 Ends With 131 Players

Live coverage of EPT Malta Main Event Day 2 begins at 12:00 CET. Registration for the Main Event is open until the start of Day 2 but around 390 players will return today and play another six 75-minute levels. Leading the way is Day 1A chip leader Carmelo Crucitti with 163k in chips, and not far behind him is Day 1B chip leader Jaroslaw Sikora with 153k.

Read more » EPT Malta: Main Event Day 2 Live Stream (12:00 CET)

Many well-known poker pros signed up for the €10,200 buy-in single-day EPT Malta High Roller on Monday. When the registration desk had closed, not less than 99 players (+33 re-entries) had joined the tournament to create a prize pool of €1,299,800!

Read more » EPT Malta: Steve O'Dwyer Wins Single-Day High Roller (€327,030)

The €25,000 buy-in High Roller is down to a final table of eight players after three intensive days of play in Malta. Connor Drinan, who bagged up 893k after nearly 10 levels of play, will lead the way to today's final table.

Read more » EPT Malta €25,000 High Roller: Connor Drinan Leads Final 8