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2012 World Poker Tour Malta

Main Event
Giorni 1a
Event Info

2012 World Poker Tour Malta

Risultati finali
Vincitore
Mano Vincente
a3
Premio
€120,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€3,000
Montepremi
€491,790
Entries
169
Informazioni livello
Livello
28
Bui
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0

Main Event

Giorno 1a iniziato

Welcome To The World Poker Tour Malta Main Event!

Matt Gianetti; Season X WPT Malta Champion
Matt Gianetti; Season X WPT Malta Champion

Just hours ago Matt Salsberg took down the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris Main Event, netting himself €400,000 in the process. Now the long-running tour packs its bags and heads to sunny Malta where for the next week it will call the Casino at Portomaso home.

Last year's WPT Malta Main Event was the first-ever European-based WPT tournament to be played to a re-entry format and that trend continues through to this year. Day 1a kicks off at 13:00 CET and if you want to participate all you need to do is visit the cashier's cage and hand over €3,300 before the end of the sixth one-hour level. Should you or any of your opponents bust out before play comes to an end on Day 1a, you and they can re-enter on Monday's Day 1b for an additional €3,300 and have another bite at the cherry.

We are till waiting for confirmation of the schedule today but in the corresponding tournament last year, seven 60-minute levels were played and a dinner break was also taken. As soon as we have official word from the tournament director then we will let you and everybody else know the plan of action for the starting flights.

Last year it was Matt Giannetti (pictured) who flew back to his native USA with the Champions Cup and $273,200 after he bested a star-studded field of 240 runners to become the WPT Malta champion. Among those players who Giannetti had to navigate past on his way to victory included Marvin Rettenmaier, Tobias Reinkemeier, Steve O'Dwyer, James Akenhead, Fabrice Soulier, and the legendary Phil Hellmuth. Hopefully many of the same big names will be in attendance this week.

Lock your browsers to the PokerNews Live Reporting pages because we will be bringing you all of the action, as it happens, from the WPT Malta Main Event. Until then we are going to catch some rays!

Tags: WPT Malta

Ten Minute Delay

Set your clocks for 13:10 because that is when the tournament will commence. The plan is to play eight 60-minute levels but that could change depending on the number of entrants.

Shuffle Up And Deal

Tournament director Christian Scalzi has just introduced himself to the players, revealed that the button will be in Seat 4 and instructed his dealers to shuffle up and deal, and with that World Poker Tour Malta is under way.

Livello: 1

Bui: 50/100

Ante: 0

PartyPoker Qualifiers

Livello 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

We have five players in the field today who have won their seats on PartyPoker. They are as follows:

  • Alexander Jung
  • Kiryl Radzivonau
  • Casper Toft
  • Julien Zemmouri
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The eagle-eyed among you will remember the name Kiryl Radzivonau and rightly so. Radzivonau finished in sixth in the recent WPT Merit Cyprus Classic main event, the one that Marvin Rettenmaier took down.

Tags: Kiryl RadzivonauMarvin Rettenmaier

A Few Famous Faces

A quick scout around the room reveals the Gold Bet sponsored pro Federico Cipollini and his fellow Italian Ceciia Pescaglini have bought in.

Cipollini has played a number of WPT events and has two cashes to his name, a 21st finish in this very event last year and a 57th place finish in Prague.

Pescaglini is a real loose-cannon of a player and extremely entertaining to watch. She finished second to Matt Giannetti in this tournament last year and won €116,700 in the process; her largest cash of her career so far.

Giocatore Chip Avanzamento
Kiryl Radzivonau by
Kiryl Radzivonau
30,000
Cecilia Pescaglini
Cecilia Pescaglini
30,000
Federico Cipollini it
Federico Cipollini
30,000

Tags: Federico CipolliniCecilia Pescaglini

Pescaglini Loses Some Early Ground

Cecelia Pescaglini has lost a third of her stack here early on after a clash with Alfonso Amendola.

We joined the action on a {4-Diamonds}{10-Spades}{q-Hearts} flop and saw Amendola fire a bet of 2,700 from under the gun, a bet that Pescaglini pondered for a few moments before making the call. The turn was the {6-Diamonds} and Amendola bet again, except this time he reduced its size and set the price to play at 1,600. Pescaglini took the bait and quickly called.

The river was the {6-Hearts} and after a 30-second pause Amendola bet 3,500 sending Pescaglini into deep thought. She sat riffling black 25 chips for over a minute, all the time muttering under her breath before deciding she was beaten and mucked her hand.

Amendola now has 39,200 chips to go with his large, unlit cigar he is holding over on Table 6.

Giocatore Chip Avanzamento
Cecelia Pescaglini
Cecelia Pescaglini
20,550

Tags: Alfonso AmendolaCecelia Pescaglini

Man Down!

We may not have even finished Level 1 yet here in Malta but we have already lost a player. Whilst typing up the Pescaglini hand (which you can see below) the tournament director brought us the ID card of Gaston Onana, the Belgian pro is the first elimination of today!

Giocatore Chip Avanzamento
Gaston Onana
Gaston Onana
Eliminato

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