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The Malta Team Poker tournament was easily one of the most original concepts in the Maltese Poker scene that we’ve seen in a very long time.  Although a similar event had taken place at the Casino di Venezia during the Malta Madness tournament (Poker Idol), it only took the role of a side event.  That event [...]

‘Hitting the Nuts’ Poker movie enjoying a great reception amongst American audiences. The film was released on DVD on the 15th April 2011, and it’s currently the most recent poker movie to make it to the shelves.  By the looks of it, it’s already a very popular pick amongst American audiences. The movie tag-line gives us [...]

Salvatore Bonavena is mostly known as the first Italian player to win a European Poker Tour event.  He’s currently 4th in the Italian all time money list.  He also placed 4th in a WSOP event, nearly winning himself a bracelet at the tournament, and so far has made over $2m in tournament winnings alone.  IPT, [...]

Salvatore Bonavena is mostly known as the first Italian player to win a European Poker Tour event.  He’s currently 4th in the Italian all time money list.  He also placed 4th in a WSOP event, nearly winning himself a bracelet at the tournament, and so far has made over $2m in tournament winnings alone.  IPT, [...]

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Here are the players at the final table for this year’s Malta Poker Dream.  You may recognise some of these players from previous tournaments that have taken place in Malta, in particular Pietro Monica who has already won a Betpro Live tournament at the Portomaso Casino earlier last year. Pietro Monica 2.755.000 Domenico Stellitano 2.590.000 [...]

At the start of day 2, with an average stack of 73K at the Malta Poker Dream main event many of the local poker fan’s eyes were fixed on Martin Kjaer and Keith Boniface who held 152k and 140k respectively. George Galea was still far off at that point of the tournament holding 47,200 which was [...]

With just 18 players left in the game, the 3 remaining tables are being broken down to the 2.  George Galea, who has been having an incredible tournament so far, is holding less than average stack, at around 680k.  The average is currently 1,1m and players just went on a short break before continuing at the [...]

35 players remain at the main event of the Malta Poker Dream day 4.  The tournament  which will continue at the 24th level later on today at 3pm.  The average stack is up to 582k and our Maltese ‘Poker Knight’, George Galea is going strong holding 617k.  He’s currently in 12th place as far as [...]

  George Galea is the only Maltese player left in the tourney.  There are only 51 players left at the event.  Average stack is now up to 400,000 and George is hanging in there with 440,000.  He just doubled up after pushing all in with 88 vs an opponent who called with 77.  George also hit [...]

  Graziella Vella took the 3rd prize at the Malta Poker Dream ladies event.  The €160 freeze-out tourney attracted 37 players for a pool of around €5,500.  Many of the local Poker ladies took part in the event, including Iva Pavlova, Anna Colley, Sofia Edbom, Sharona Refalo, as well as some newcomers like Maureen Sultana. [...]

Gordon Mifsud, a popular tournament and cash game player at local card rooms was one of the 2 remaining Maltese players at the Malta Poker Dream main event.  In a frustrating turn of events, though, he found himself card dead for the duration of the second day.  Nonetheless, Gordon managed to maintain his stack, and [...]

Cosimo Dambra had an up and down ride all throughout the day.  After qualifying for the Malta Poker Dream satellite main event of €1,100 earlier this week, he made it to Day 2 of the main event starting with around 75K.  Unluckily, he just finished the tournament in 88th place, and he’s here to fill [...]

At the 17th level of blinds, which now reached 2,500/5,000, Keith Boniface, just finished the tournament in 98th place.  Keith held a very consistent stack throughout the entire tournament, having started today with 141k.  He reached almost 200k at one point but had a hit or two that took him down to around 100k.  A [...]

As the blinds take their toll on the remaining participants, here’s the chip update of the players we’re following at the Malta Poker Dream tourney.  We’re at the 16th level of blinds which reached 2,000/4,000 and 500 antes. 107 players are left in the game and the average stack has risen to 190,654 chips. George [...]

Here are the chip counts of the more familiar faces from the local Poker scene! We’re at the 15th level, 1,600 / 3,200 blinds and 400 antes.  132 players from the original starting count of 408 remain in the tourney.  Average stack is up to 154,545!

Mark Attard started off the day with just over 100,000 chips but he busted out of the tournament after 2 hands that  his hurt his stack and ended his tournament prematurely. We caught up with Mark as he shared with us the last moments of his Malta Poker Dream experience. MA: I’m disappointed  as I came [...]

Andrew found his way in the Malta Poker Dream tourney by winning a satellite tourney held on Tuesday the 29th March at the Portomaso Casino. His first day was a bit of a roller-coaster ride, but eventually he ended the day with 22,300.  After starting on the 11th level on day 2 he played 6 [...]