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October Satellite – Episode 4 [22/10/09] - Malta Poker Events
October 23, 2009The fourth episode of the weekly live satellite tournaments hosted by Malta Poker Events attracted 35 players on Thursday the 22nd October at the Portomaso Casino St. Julians.
Among the players present, were some of the regular Malta Poker Events fans like Stephen Spiteri, Ryan Seguna, Charles Sammut and Hubert Micallef as well as last month’s €220 winner, Georg Westin [Sweden].
The event started at 20:30Hrs where dozens of poker players took their shot at the event which gave them a chance at winning their €220 entry to the end of month Halloween Poker Tournament taking place at the Portomaso Casino, Malta, on the 1st November 2009.
The tournament progressed at a steady pace with quality poker players who were taking their time at analysing their opponents before taking any chances with uncalculated decisions. By midnight the game was down to the final table and the actions started to tighten up as leader Brian Cremona had a very strong lead, George Deguara as the short stack while there was a fairly broad distribution of chips amongst the remaining players.
Within a few of minutes after sitting down at the final table, the first player out in ninth was George Deguara, who was one of the lowest stacked players at the table. Next up was Georg Westin, who pushed blindly in a last attempt to double up as his chip stack started to shrink in comparison to the average. Brian Cremona, called Georg’s all in while holding AK and managed to dominate the Q3 held by Georg, and finished off by winning his entire stack which was around 3,700 at the time.
Stephen Spiteri, holding a reasonably healthy stack noticed that the game started to tighten up and took advantage of this by pushing and taking blinds in more than one occasion. While holding KQ, he eventually got called by Victor Mifsud, who was holding A4 diamonds which developed into a flush with a King of diamonds on the turn. The game wasn’t over yet however as to everyone’s surprise, the river card showed a King, which gave Stephen Spiteri a monster full house with King’s full of queens, as he claimed all of Victors Chips, sending Mifsud out in 7th position as the bubble.
The next determining hand was played between Charles Sammut and Mario Mannara, where Charles placed a 6,000 bet which Mario called fairly quickly. The flop showed JT9 and Sammut quickly followed up with an All-in while holding A10. Mario also paired a T on the flop and called Sammut’s bet only to be dominated by his opponents higher kicker, the Ace of Spades, as the turn and river cards didn’t help strengthen Mario’s hand.
The game came to a close by around 00:45 in a hand played between Stephen Spiteri and Ryan Seguna. Ryan pushed all in holding a pair of kings and got called by Stephen Spiteri’s pair of tens. Ryan’s hand maintained it’s strength on the flop which showed a 988 until the turn which showed a 6. The situation completely reversed itself when the river card came out as a 6 giving Stephen Spiteri a runner runner straight, and all of Seguna’s chips. Ryan went out in 5th position, winning himself a ticket for next week’s satellite tournament, leaving Brian Cremona, Charles Sammut, Ivan Farrugia, Stephen Spiteri as the winners of this episode of the October Satellite tournaments.
The next and final episode of the weekly satellites will be taking place at the Portomaso Casino, Malta on the 29th October 2009. The event is set to start at 20:30 hours and should attract around 40 – 50 players for their final chance to win their entry to the Halloween €220 tourney taking place on the 1st November 2009. Players are encouraged to dress-up for the Halloween event to complement the theme of the night as the ‘Spookiest tournament of the year’.
€220 Halloween tournament ticket winners: From Left to right – [Brian Cremona, Charles Sammut, Ivan Farrugia, Stephen Spiteri]
Satellite Winners:
- Ryan Seguna
- Mario MannaraMore info and photos may be viewed at the gallery on maltapokerevents.com.
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Malta Poker Events - September Satellite - Episode 3
September 18, 2009September Satellite – Episode 3 [17.09.09]
Following some players requests, two satellite tournaments were held in this week’s poker appointment with Malta Poker Events. We hosted a re-buy satellite tournament allowing one rebuy and top up as well as our regular freezeout satellite.
With this week’s tournament layout and the 42 registered players, this week’s payouts totaled 9 prizes and included 7 seats to September’s end of month €220 tournament [27.09.09] and 2 seats for the satellite tournament taking place on 24.09.09.
The re-buy tourney consisted of 10 players and resulted in three 1st prize €220 event seats being given to winners - Elvira Camilleri, Giovanni Tozzolino, and Westin Georg. George Deguara and Andrea Stellato also made it in the ‘money’ and won themselves a seat each to the final September Satellite, Episode 4, being held on the 24th Septeember at the Portomaso Casino.
Re-Buy satellite winners
From left to right: Elvira Camilleri, Giovanni Tozzolino, and Westin Georg.
The freezeout satellite tourney attracted 32 players with prizes given to the remaining 4 players in the game. Winners included Maude Smith, Jon Mallia, Alexander Fenech and Chris Sammut, who gained entry to this weeks satellite after winning a previous satellite ticket earlier this month in the September Satellite – Episode 1.
Frezeout satellite winners
Malta Poker Events - September Satellite Episode 3 - Freezout Winners
From left to right: Alexander Fenech, Chris Sammut, Maude Smith, Jon Mallia.
More photos of the winners and other participants may be viewed at the Gallery at Maltapokerevents.com
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September Satellite - Episode 2
September 14, 2009
The satellite tournament, with a €27+3 entry fee attracted 44 enthusiastic poker players taking their seats in the Poker room at the Portomaso Casino on the 10th September 2009. Amongst the players present were three of the Malta Chili Poker Open 2009 finalists - Massimiliano Privitera from Italy who had placed 2nd, taking home €8,670, Gordon Mifsud who placed fifth and won €2,800 and Andrew Camilleri in 8th placing and €1,128 prize.
This week’s payouts included 5 seats to September’s end of month €220 tournament [27.09.09] and 3 seats for the satellite tournament taking place on 17.09.09.
The first break was over by 22:30hrs and by then, there were 30 remaining players with an average stack of 4,400 chips.
At the final table, Omar Granata and Daniel Mais went out in 7th and 8th place respectively,
With the blinds now at the 2K / 4K level, The strongest of the remaining 6 players at the table were Tanya Apap and Gordon Mifsud, and on the opposite end of the scale there was Giovanni Totsolino with 700 chips.
A struggling effort by Giovanni took place when he pushed all-in with his 700 chips while holding 5 6 and got called by Tanya who held a pair of fours at the time. The flop showed 9 3 3 6 7 helping Giovanni to double up when he paired his 6 on the turn.
In the next hand, Giovanni pushed all-in yet again, with a 1400 stack, and got called by Thomas Harvey and Gordon Mifsud. Giovanni’s KJ hit a pair on the flop and trips on the river when the flop showed 10 4 J 2 J. The 6 10 held by Gordon and A 3 held by Tommy could not match Giovanni’s hand and helped propel his chip count up to 5,400.
The deciding hand played was between Giovanni Totsolino and Massimo Pappalardo, while the dealer button was at Gordon Mifsud. Massimo [SB] holding 10 9 called Giovanni’s [BB] push and he showed his A 7 in turn. Massimo’s hand paired the 9 on the flop and kept it’s strength all the way to the river, beating the hand held by Totsolino. This play sent out Giovanni Totsolino in sixth position winning a ticket to a satellite event on 17.09.09, and leaving the reaming five players as the prize winners of the €220 tickets for the end of month tourney on 27.09.09.
Prizes for the €220 end of month tourney were awarded to:
From Left to right: Joe Grima, Gordon Mifsud, Tanya Apap, Massimo Pappalardo, Thomas Harvey
Satellite tickets were awarded as prizes to:
- Giovanni Totsolino
- Daniel Mais
- Omar GranataSee the rest of the photos at our Gallery at the Malta Poker Events website.
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September Satellite - Episode 1
September 04, 2009
Malta Poker Events - Stephen Spiteri - Prize WinnerSeptember Satellite - Episode 1
After a long summer break for many, Thursday the 3rd September marked the start of an action-packed season full of No Limit Hold'em.
50 poker players signed up for Episode 1 of the September satellite tournament by Malta Poker Events
6 €220 main event prizes were given out, which entitles the winners entry to the end of month €220 freezeout taking place at the Portomaso Casino on Sunday the 27th September 2009.
The tourney was completed within 4 hours, with blinds increasing every 18 minutes.
There were many familiar faces, several players who attended the Malta Poker Seminar and the Malta Chili Poker Open 2009, and a mix of regular local card players who contributed €27 each to the pot.
Players were all seated by 20:30hrs and within ninety minutes at the break, 30 players were left in the game, taking the average chip stack up to 5000 from the initial 3000.
The final table started at 23:15hrs with 9 players at the table. Steven Spiteri held the chiplead here with 29,000 chips.
In the final stages of the game, Luke Lyttleton called Carmel’s 12,700 push and was shown the only hand that could beat him pre-flop: Rockets! Furthermore, Luke’s confident call did not see his KK develop into a hand stronger than Carmel’s AA and Luke lost a very large portion of his stack leaving him 5,400 while callus now held over 25,000.
The first player out after the break put his AJ up against Steve Spiteri’s KK. With blinds at 1,000, Steve raised 5,000 and was pushed all-in by Zsolt Noji. Steve called the additional 4,000 and saw the dealer unfold a favourable flop, turn and river, taking his chip-count to approximately 40,000.
Luke Lyttleton was the next player out of the game finishing in eight position. He pushed all-in holding KJ and got called by Charles Sammut holding A10. Sammut paired his ten on the flop, and took hold of all of Luke’s 5,400 stack.
The game came to a close when Chris Sammut went all in holding 5 8 against Kristian Jorgensen’s pocket 3’s. Kristian called and hit trips on the turn, sending Sammut out in seventh place. Sammut’s placing gained him entry to next week’s satellite taking place on Thursday, 10th September at the Portomaso Casino.
€220 Tickets for the September 27th Freezeout were given as prizes to the following players:
- Steve Spiteri
- Carmel Callus
- Kristian Jorgensen
- Charles Sammut
- Jeremy Harding-Roberts
- Lawrence bonnici€27+3 Ticket for 10th September satellite:
Chris SammutThe next satellite will be taking place on the 10th September at the Portomaso Casino.
The Event will start at 20:30Hrs.Free parking available at the Portomaso Car Park
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Malta Poker Events - Monthly Tournaments & Autumn Schedule
August 18, 2009
Join a prize pool reaching around €10,000 every month [based on 50 players] marking your monthly poker appointments in autumn 2009.
With non-stop weekly poker action in the coming season, Malta Poker Events and the splendid Casino at the Portomaso are providing poker players with weekly satellite poker tournaments leading up to €220 freeze-out tournaments being held in the months of September, October and November 2009.
We also included an interesting twist to the schedule with a monthly €45 knockout tournament, which will surely see more forceful plays than those seen in the freeze-out events.
Visit the events section at maltapokerevents.com for the full September Schedule.
Tournament photos and updates will be added to our Photo Gallery at maltapokerevents.com and an assortment of online Poker channels.
Contact us on for more information about the freshest poker action this upcoming season: info@maltapokerevents.com
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Poker Channel broadcast schedule of the Malta ChiliPoker Open
July 02, 2009
Poker Channel broadcast schedule of the Malta ChiliPoker Open
Catch the Malta ChiliPoker Open 2009 on the Poker Channel throughout the months of July and August. The broadcasts of the Tournament will also show viewers the highlights of the Malta Poker Seminar, and interviews with seminar speakers and Poker players in Malta.
The broadcast schedule follows:
Saturday 27th June at 23:00 [Aired]
Wednesday 1st July at 22:00. [Aired]
Thursday 16th July 14:00
Sunday 19th July 23:00
Wednesday 22nd 22:00
Monday 27th 22:00
Wednesday 29th 23:00
Thursday 30th 16:00
Sunday 2nd August 22:00
[Times are in the following time-zone: GMT+01:00]You may even check out Malta Chilipoker Open photos in the Gallery at the Malta Poker Events website.
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Malta Poker Events Video Premier At Ryan's Pub, St. Julians
June 16, 2009
Join us at Ryan’s Pub, St. Julians for the premier of The Malta Chilipoker Open Video. The show will air at 20:00Hrs on Thursday the 18th June 2009
The show contains footage shot during the tournament which took place between the 24th and the 25th April 2009 at the Portomaso Casino St. Julians. 149 Players registered for the event with a prize pool which reached €45,000.
The program also contains features like the Malta Poker Seminar report and interviews, Malta Chilipoker Open tournament highlights, Player Interviews, Final Table action and much more!
This is a great opportunity to meet some of the players who participated in this event so make sure you drop by Ryan’s on Thursday for the first official preview before the show is broadcast on Melita Sports and The Poker Channel.
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Malta Chilipoker Open 2009
April 27, 2009
Malta Chilipoker Open - 1st Prize Winner!Malta Chilipoker Open 2009
The Malta Chilipoker Open 2009, hosted by Malta Poker Events attracted 149 players who faced off at the Portomaso Casino, Malta, for the first Maltese tournament ever scheduled to receive local and international broadcast exposure.The €330 No Limit Texas Hold’em Freezeout took place over three separate days with 70 players registering for Day 1A, the 24th of April 2009 and 79 players registered for Day 1B, the 25th of April 2009. Poker players from various European countries were given 10,000 chips each on their starting day reaching an average stack of over 33,000 by Day 2.
Forty five players made it to the final day; betting, checking and folding their way to earn themselves the biggest share of the €44,000 pot. The pot was shared amongst the last eighteen players who made it through the final stages in the tournament.
A golden cup filled with €13,000 was awarded to the first prize winner, Umur Hatipoglu from Turkey, in the first of the Malta Poker Events calendar of tournaments this year.
Umur was followed closely by Massimiliano Privitera, who went back to Italy €8,670 richer, after several bullet dodging sessions with Umur and Simon Legouge, a French poker player and the third finalist, whose skills won him €5,160.
The highest ranking Maltese Poker player, Kenneth Vella, placed 4th, and took home €3,470 for enduring through the ups and downs of the poker tournament.
Results - Malta Chilipoker Open 2009 -
1st - Umur Hatipoglu € 13,000
2nd - Massimiliano Privitera € 8,670
3rd - Simon Legougue € 5,160
4th - Kenneth Vella € 3,470
5th - Gordon Mifsud € 2,800Photos may be viewed in the Gallery section of our site. More news, images, and footage will follow shortly.
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Malta Poker Events - Seminar Update
April 23, 2009
Malta Poker SeminarMalta Poker Events - Seminar Update
Malta Poker Seminar
The Malta Poker Events’ Poker Seminar came to an end last weekend, on Sunday the 18th April. The event was held over two days at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta.The educational event targeted poker players with an active interest in No-Limit Hold’em was coordinated by local organizers – Malta Poker Events – who are currently leading the live poker scene on the Maltese islands with their mix of community building efforts and live poker games at the local casino poker rooms.
The young and dynamic team envisioned the project several months ago, looking for the right mix of knowledgeable speakers, who also possessed the skills to transfer such knowledge to listeners in a fun and entertaining way.
The Malta Poker Seminar was headlined by professional poker player, WSOP Gold Bracelet winner and two-time WPT Champion Ron Rose. Ron, who was also a WPT Boot Camp instructor in Las Vegas, NV, flew in for the event from the USA delivering an entire day of presentations, sharing his experiences playing against other professionals on various televised events with those in attendance. Ron covered many topics during his presentation including poker basics, calculating pot odds, implied odds, betting strategies, mathematics of poker, bluffing, stealing, table image and tournament play – essential tips for those aspiring poker players to improve their game.
At the beginning of the seminar Ron presented the delegates with selected scenarios in which each of the delegates was asked to answer a set of multiple choice questions. This was done to determine the delegates’ pre-seminar poker IQs. After Ron’s presentation was over, the same scenarios were presented again, and the delegates’ post-seminar IQs were compared to their pre-seminar poker IQs. A show of hands gave staggering results, as more than 90% of the seminar delegates saw an improvement in their test scores of anywhere from 10 to 40 percent.
Ron was also supported by Ari Pietarinen, The Pokerspokesman, from Helsinki, Finland. The amicable Finnish speaker is another professional in the poker world, earning a living and supporting his family through the success and consistency he has achieved from playing No Limit Hold’em, the world’s favourite card game. His speech about the “transition from an amateur to a poker pro” was a warm and honest delivery; and through his tales of the ups and downs of “going pro,” Ari painted a realistic picture to those aspiring to follow in his footsteps.
“Responsible Gaming” was also included on the Malta Poker Seminar agenda. Here, Malta Poker Events selected Linda Aklundh as the best possible candidate for this delicate subject. Thanks to her experience in the field of psychotherapy, and the training she has followed through her affiliation with Gamcare, Linda’s presentation sustained everyone’s attention for the full delivery, while she gave specific advice on recognizing symptoms of compulsive gambling, and offering suggestions on ways to help relieve such symptoms before they become harder to resolve.
“Poker Out of the Box,” by Norman Darmanin Demajo from the Time 2 Think Foundation, was a fresh interactive delivery which enthralled the audience at the MCC. The brain-tickling presentation focused on how patterns are formed in human beings’ thought processes. Norman’s reflections were solidified by proving [through practical exercises performed by the delegates] how patterns tend to dampen creativity, resulting in a narrower spectrum of choices in the decision making process. The information was greatly appreciated by the poker players who experienced this first hand when trying one of a number of exercises which Norman prepared for this occasion.
Malcolm Tortell moved in with his presentation entitled “Working with Emotions: Maximise Effectiveness and Minimise Interference in Poker” where he defined “going on tilt” as a scenario in which a player experiences increased emotional activity in a situation where this can be detrimental to his chip stack. Malcolm offered advice on how such emotional interference may be dealt with in practical ways such as breathing exercises, getting in the zone, and other methods.
Ron Rose handing the "Certificate of achievement" to a delegate.The Malta Poker Seminar was caught on tape and short clips including interviews with all the speakers will soon be available for viewing in the video gallery section of the Malta Poker Events website.
