Party Poker MILLIONS Festival Malta – First Results

Three events have now concluded at the Party Poker MILLIONS Malta Festival and the winners have received their trophies.

Deepstack Event #6  €225+€25 Deepstack

The 2-day event resumed on Tuesday with French players dominating the overnight leaderboard. 38 players had returned for the day 2, but 11 of these would miss out on a payday, as only 27 places were in the prize money. Overnight chip leader Guillaume Rodrigues-Martin did not manage to maintain his authority, finishing in 19th place. Swiss player Nabil El Hage went on to claim the victory, securing the top prize of €10,496 and a Party Poker trophy.

Position | Player | Nationality | Prize
1 | Nabil El Hage | Swiss | €10,496
2 | Pierre Jeffredo | French | €7,570
3 | John Samuel Garratt | English | €5,740
4 | Antoine Rahal | French | €4,270
5 | Mattia Cirincione | Italian | €2,930
6 | Stefan Fernandez Wiesebrock | German | €2,440
7 | Jonathan Pastore | French | €1,950
8 | Andres Rengifo | Unknown | €1,460
9 | Peter Kramer Sandberg | Danish | €980
10 | Xabi Carricart | French | €850
11 | Randhir Koli | English | €850
12 | Romain Nardin | French | €850
13 | Yoan Dody | French | €730
14 | Jordan Dumas | French | €730
15 | Salvatore Caruso | Italian | €730
16 | Stevan Gvozdenovic | Montenegrin | €610
17 | Mike Alonso | French | €610
18 | Blair Payne Armstrong | English | €610
19 | Guillaume Rodrigues-Martin | French | €490
20 | Jorge Palomino | Spain | €490
21 | David Kilmartin Lappin | Ireland | €490
22 | Hugo Loustau | French | €490
23 | Tom Vermeulen | Dutch | €490
24 | David Quang | Canadian | €490
25 | Leonardo Tomei | Italian | €490
26 | Salvatore Ritrovato | Italian | €490
27 | Scott Fingland | Canadian | €490
Total  Entries | 226 | | €48,816
Unique Players | 151 | |
Re-entries | 75 | |

Ladies Event

There were 29 entries for event #10, the €130+€20 Ladies event, generating a prize pool of €3,619. Ivonne Monteleagre, the vice president of the Women’s Poker Association fired two bullets, but was unable to parlay it into a final table appearance. The heads up battle played out between Argentinian Micaela Yanigro Arcusin and England’s Sophie Gathercole and it was the latter who emerged victorious in the early hours of Wednesday morning, to scoop the title, the trophy and €1,519.

Position | Player | Nationality | Prize
1 | Sophie Gathercole | English | €1519
2 | Micaela Yanigro Arcusin | Argentinian | €1200
3 | Anita Staahle | Norwegian | €540
4 | Julija Drevina | Latvian | €360
Total Entries | 29 | | €3,619
Unique Players | 21 | |
Re-Entries | 8 | |

H.O.R.S.E

The third event to reach its conclusion was the €175+€25 H.O.R.S.E event, a highly anticipated tournament, especially by local players, who hold a weekly H.O.R.S.E tournament here throughout the year. It was high quality field that included a WSOP bracelet winner in Dutchman Jens Voertman and several other highly skilled mixed game players. Mixed games crusher Adam Owen was in attendance and made the money, but did not go on to take the trophy. That honour went to local Richard Burke, an English player who resides in Malta. He rode off with €2,348 after defeating Joe Brindle heads up, while Adam Owen claimed third place, to give all three spots on the podium to English players.

Position | Player | Nationality | Prize
1 | Richard Burke | English | €2,348
2 | Joe Brindle | English | €1,560
3 | Adam Owen | English | €780
4 | Carlo Van Ravenswoud | Dutch | €520
Total Entries | 31 | | €5,208.00
Unique Players | 27 | |
Re-entries | 4 | |

Today’s Action

Today sees the start of the €5,300 Hydra Entertainment High Roller. There are also satellites to both the Grand Prix and the MILLIONS, which feature on Thursday’s busy schedule.

Tonight’s side event is the €150 buy-in “Italian Party.” It remains to be seen whether any English players will crash the party and take on the job of outlasting the Italians? Ciao Ciao for now!

The full schedule of events can be found here

Photos from the event can be found here

Jonathan Raab

MILLIONS Malta Media Coordinator

Photography by Jean Marc Zerafa