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