And they’re off! The Malta Poker Dream day 1A is underway!
6:12 pm in Live Poker, Poker News, Portomaso Casino by Etienne Licari
At 4pm, the Grandmaster hall at the Portomaso opened up its doors to the 115 players who registered themselves for Day 1 A of the Malta Poker Dream tournament. A little after players took their seats, Melita Toniolo entered the stage, welcomed all of them to the tourney, and proceeded to introduce the organizers who expressed their warm welcome to all the players attending the 5 day event.
The tournament director proceeded to give players their instructions and reminded them the tournament structure for the day being 50,000 starting chips and 50 minute blinds. The tournament is planned to reach the tenth level before players would cease play and get ready for day 2. A dinner is taking place at the 6th level, which will give players a chance to relax, stretch their legs and re-fuel for the remaining 4 levels before the tournament pauses for the day. The tourney will continue on Day 2, the 1st April 2011.
On our quick tour around the tables we saw a good number of Maltese participants for the €1,100 tournament, amongst these were:
Jackie & Martin Malta Poker Dream
Jackie Cachia, who bought in for the tourney after being inches away from winning her seat at last night, Martin Kjaer, Mario Sciberras, Mark Attard (satellite ticket winner), Anna Colley, Gordon Mifsud, Cosimo Dambra (satellite winner), tourney regular Keith Boniface, and Bart Wetsteijn. We will be following these players’ progress as they make their way through the levels of Day 1A of the tourney with the hope that they arrive at the final table of the poker tourney!
Sergio Castelluccio Malta Poker Dream
Some of the better known Italian players and previous winners who we’ve also seen at the Day 1A include: Alfonso Amendola, Roberto Nulli, Rosario Caruso, Nicola D’Arrigo, Salvatore D’Arrigo, Sergio Castelluccio, and Christian Cipriano. Let’s see how these players will fare in this arena against their adversaries, past and present!
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