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The Festival Malta 2024 Results

Event #1 €250 The Hendon Mob Championship

Buy-In: €250
Entries: 334
Prize Pool: €71,392

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Fred “FriDiGiDi”	Germany	€14,600
2nd	Lewis Aikman	Scotland	€8,900
3rd	Stewart Kirby	England	€6,350
4th	Scott Boyle	England	€4,950
5th	Edvin Strom	Sweden	€3,800
6th	Georgios Tavoularis	Greece	€2,950
7th	Nikolaos Tsitos	Greece	€2,300
8th	Kenny Burke	England	€1,850
9th	Joona Koivisto	Finland	€1,480
10th	Bart Dil	Netherlands	€1,230
11th	Karl Gialanze	Malta	€1,230
12th	Milan Ljubisic	Germany	€1,026
13th	Presiyan Tsvetanov	Bulgaria	€1,026
14th	Emil Simonea	France	€860
15th	Victor Grabowski	Poland	€860
16th	Rickard Olsson	Sweden	€730
17th	Sergejs Korobovs	Latvia	€730
18th	Gustav Andersson	Sweden	€620
19th	Martijn Pellemans	Netherlands	€620
20th	Ivonne Montealegre Oviedo	Costa Rica	€620
21st	Giulio Spampinato	Italy	€620
22nd	Bartlomiej Grabowski	Poland	€620
23rd	Vasyl Vorynka	Ukraine	€620
24th	Rain Molderkivi	Estonia	€570
25th	Alan Daly	Ireland	€570
26th	Ivar Simmer	Estonia	€570
27th	Simon Wahlbrink	Germany	€570
28th	Stevan Gvozdenovic	-	€570
29th	Tomasz Wrobel	Poland	€570
30th	Ylva Thorsrud	Norway	€570
31st	Siarhei Narozhny	Belarus	€570
32nd	Jorge Garcia Galiani	Spain	€530
33rd	Daniel Bartolome Farina	Spain	€530
34th	Marat Akhmetianov	Russia	€530
35th	Ivo Petkov	Bulgaria	€530
36th	Didier Darracq	France	€530
37th	Andre Larsen	Norway	€530
38th	Elias Jalovaara	Finland	€530
39th	Niccolo' Cadoni	Italy	€530
40th	Mark O'Callaghan	England	€500
41st	David Lappin	Ireland	€500
42nd	Kristian Karlsson	Sweden	€500
43rd	Luka Bulatovic	-	€500
44th	Daniel Kuhlmann	Germany	€500
45th	Joseph Grech	Malta	€500
46th	Leonard White	Ireland	€500
47th	Fabio Trovao	Portugal	€500

Event #2: €550 H.O.R.S.E.S Mixed Games Main Event

Buy-In: €550
Entries: 53
Prize Pool: €25,175

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Eirik Presttun	Norway	€5,895*
2nd	Mattia Rubenstrunk	Germany	€5,755*
3rd	Ruud Alsemgeest	Netherlands	€4,215*
4th	Lachezar Tsenov	Bulgaria	€5,035*
5th	Pierre-Olivier Jandaud	France	€1,850
6th	Alexandrs Golubevs	Latvia	€1,380
7th	Frank Visser	Netherlands	€1,025

*Denotes 4-way deal

Event #4: €250 Sviten Special

Buy-In: €250
Entries: 68
Prize Pool: €14,535

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Barrie Dear	England	€4,950
2	Carlo Braccini	Italy	€3,170
3	Mauro Lombardi	Italy	€1,850
4	Teemu Hietala	Finland	€1,350
5	Jeffrey Jol	Netherlands	€950
6	Antoine Degiorgio	Malta	€720
7	Gia Carnestrom	Sweden	€580
8	Marco Sgura	Germany	€515
9	Wouter Schuurbiers	Belgium	€450

Event #8 €550 Festival in Malta Main Event

Buy-In: €550
Entries: 566
Prize Pool: €268,850

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Victor Gil den Houting	Spain	€55,000
2	Haven Taylor	Canada	€32,800
3	Oliver Mihajlovski	Macedonia	€23,300
4	Mathias Jordi	Switzerland	€17,800
5	Bart Dil	Netherlands	€13,800
6	Mario Eder	Austria	€10,600
7	Krystian Nalepka	Poland	€8,300
8	Dragan Ignjatovski	Macedonia	€6,300
9	Jordi Ruiz	Spain	€4,800
10	Milan Ljubisic	Germany	€4,200
11	Lucas Liljegren	Sweden	€4,200
12	Pasquale Grimaldi	Italy	€3,650
13	Svensson Linus	Sweden	€3,650
14	Jesper Lucas	Netherlands	€3,150
15	Stefanos Michalidis	Greece	€3,150
16	Ivo Petkov	Bulgaria	€2,700
17	Julie Whitworth	England	€2,700
18	Stuart McNally	Scotland	€2,300
19	Dimitrios Katsikas	Greece	€2,300
20	Andrei Mjagkov	Estonia	€2,300
21	Giuseppe Signorelli	Italy	€1,950
22	Angelo Vietti	Italy	€1,950
23	Alfredo Cuti	Italy	€1,950
24	Soner Vanelderen	Belgium	€1,650
25	Andreas Holmsten	Sweden	€1,650
26	Alexandrs Golubevs	Latvia	€1,650
27	Lukasz Sajnog	Poland	€1,650
28	Daniel Henriques	Portugal	€1,450
29	Marc Hunter	Anguilla	€1,450
30	Kjell Hernstrom	Sweden	€1,450
31	Reuven Zohar	Israel	€1,450
32	Emmanouil Zacharakis	Greece	€1,250
33	Eduardo Nunes	Brazil	€1,250
34	Domenico Gala	Italy	€1,250
35	Giovanni Piccione	Italy	€1,250
36	Lucien Jouanneau	France	€1,250
37	Maciej Toma	Poland	€1,250
38	Jon Persent	Norway	€1,250
39	Kristian Karlsson	Sweden	€1,250
40	Jimmy Dewernt	France	€1,100
41	Sergejs Korobovs	Latvia	€1,100
42	Emmanuel Sant	England	€1,100
43	David Gee	England	€1,100
44	Nenad Skalonja	Switzerland	€1,100
45	Joona Koivisto	Finland	€1,100
46	James Neil	England	€1,100
47	Edvin Strom	Sweden	€1,100
48	Vadim Guk	Estonia	€1,100
49	Liwei Wang	China	€1,100
50	Thomas Lind	Sweden	€1,100
51	Henri Piironen	Finland	€1,100
52	Lukas Feirer	Austria	€1,100
53	Salvatore Ritrovato	Italy	€1,100
54	Marko Keskel	Estonia	€1,100
55	Jostein Groedum	Norway	€1,100
56	Antonio Privitera	Italy	€1,000
57	Gustav Andersson	Sweden	€1,000
58	Przem Zielinski	Poland	€1,000
59	Martin Tsvetanov	Bulgaria	€1,000
60	Richard Barnett	England	€1,000
61	Rickard Olsson	Sweden	€1,000
62	Stephen Jarvie	England	€1,000
63	Erik Lindqwist	Sweden	€1,000
64	Fabio Berti	Italy	€1,000
65	Theodoros Mastrogiannis	Greece	€1,000
66	Karli Kiin	Estonia	€1,000
67	Noelia Rico	Sweden	€1,000
68	Zbigniew Wieczorek	Poland	€1,000
69	Rain Molderkivi	Estonia	€1,000
70	Samuele Presti	Italy	€1,000
71	Raimondas Gudeliauskas	Lithuania	€1,000

Event #9 €250 Heads Up Championship

Buy-In: €250
Entries: 30
Prize Pool: €6,412.50

Pos.	Player	Country	Prize
1	Bartlomiej Grabowski	Poland	€2,800
2	Richard Broda	Hungary	€1,780
3	Dragan Ignjatovski	Macedonia	€916
4	Steven Fitzpatrick	England	€916

Event #10: €250 PLO Masters

Buy-In: €250
Entries: 33
Prize Pool: €7,050

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Jacco Hester	Netherlands	€2,800
2nd	David Lappin	Ireland	€1,860
3rd	Daniel Orlowski	Poland	€1,150
4th	James Paris	Malta	€730
5th	Sandeep Nene	Malta	€514

Event #11: €125 Roulette Championship

Buy-In: €125
Entries: 31
Prize Pool: €3,240

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Rolf Arne Bechstrom	Netherlands	€1,410
2nd	Alari Korkjas	Estonia	€910
3rd	Halvor Dahlberg	Norway	€580
4th	Aleksander Lattikas	Estonia	€340

Extra Event: €125 Tuesday Madness

Buy-In: €125
Entries: 72
Prize Pool: €7,524
Date: 10-09-2024

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Karev Tralla	Estonia	€1,962.50*
2nd	Jonas Rosqvist	Sweden	€1,962.50*
3rd	Koen Roos	Netherlands	€1,024
4th	Rafael de Asevedo Silva	Brazil	€740
5th	Dara O’Kearney	Ireland	€555
6th	David Lappin	Ireland	€420
7th	Michael Cauchi	Malta	€330
8th	Lisbeth Sunde	Norway	€280
9th	Antoine Degiorgio	Malta	€250

*Denotes 2-way deal

Event #16 €125 8-Game

Buy-In: €125
Entries: 85
Prize Pool: €8,881

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Sarharib Karatas	Germany	€1,870*
2nd	Scott Kenyon	England	€1,665*
3rd	Andreas Sanden	Norway	€1,415*
4th	Wouter Schuurbiers	Belgium	€910
5th	Sami Hadell	Sweden	€711
6th	Timothee Marlin	France	€550
7th	Grzegorz Wyraz	Poland	€400
8th	Marilyn Dimech	Malta	€330
9th	Terje Jahn	Norway	€280
10th	Barrie Dear	England	€250
11th	Evgenil Goncharov	Russia	€250
12th	Antoine Degiorgio	Malta	€250

*Denotes 3-way deal

Event #17 €125 Blackjack Tournament

Buy-In: €125
Entries: 29
Prize Pool: €3,030

Position	Player	Country	Prize (€)
1st	Marko Keskel	Estonia	€1,280
2nd	Alari Korkjas	Estonia	€900
3rd	Simon Legouge	France	€550
4th	Alar Kivissaar	Estonia	€300

Event #18 PLO High Roller

Buy-In: €1,100
Entries: 18
Prize Pool: €19,100

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Phil Grosg	Germany	€9,600
2nd	Linus Forslund	Sweden	€5,700
3rd	Alexandrs Golubevs	Latvia	€3,800

Extra Event: €125 Wednesday Madness

Buy-In: €125
Entries: 96
Prize Pool: €10,032
Date: 11-09-2024

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Halvor Dahlberg	Norway	€2,580
2nd	Aleksiy Baranovskiy	Russia	€1,850
3rd	Radovan Fridrich	Slovakia	€1,420
4th	Sami Pulliainen	Finland	€950
5th	David Lappin	Ireland	€712
6th	Jenny Westerlund	Sweden	€520
7th	Karev Tralla	Estonia	€420
8th	Elias Jalovaara	Finland	€310
9th	Shanmugasundaram Jeyamohan	England	€270
10th	Lukasz Sajnog	Poland	€250
11th	Klavs Garselis	Latvia	€250
12th	Lachezar Tsenov	Bulgaria	€250
13th	Miguel Soler	Spain	€250

Event #23 €250 H.O.R.S.E

Buy-In: €250
Entries: 46
Prize Pool: €9,832

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Timothee Marlin	France	€3,680
2	Frank Visser	Netherlands	€2,450
3	Antoine Degiorgio	Malta	€1,470
4	William Lynch	Scotland	€980
5	Sandeep Nene	Malta	€730
6	Richard Burke	England	€522

Event #24 €250 Deepstack

Buy-In: €250
Entries: 133
Prize Pool: €28,428

Position	Player	Country	Amount (€)
1	Milan Ljubisic	Germany	€7,850
2	Matteo Kerbaol	France	€5,300
3	Joakim Olin	Sweden	€3,550
4	Mathias Jordi	Switzerland	€2,430
5	Sebastian Gruszczynski	Poland	€1,850
6	Sergejs Korobovs	Latvia	€1,420
7	Hendrik Uibo	Estonia	€1,130
8	Theodoros Mastrogiannis	Greece	€860
9	Elias Jalovaara	Finland	€720
10	Daniel Feirer	Austria	€580
11	Leonard White	Ireland	€580
12	Ioannis Tatakis	Greece	€580
13	Thomas Lind	Sweden	€526
14	Koen Roos	Netherlands	€526
15	Per Baevre	Norway	€526

Event #25 €1,100 NLH High Roller

Buy-In: €1,100
Entries: 61
Prize Pool: €57,950

Position	Player	Country	Amount
1	Lewis Aikman	Scotland	€18,500
2	Stephen McCabe	Scotland	€12,150
3	Alexandru Cinca	Romania	€7,550
4	Romain Nardin	France	€5,200
5	Stuart McNally	Ireland	€3,950
6	Presiyan Tsvetanov	Bulgaria	€3,230
7	Henri Piironen	Finland	€2,740
8	Haven Taylor	Canada	€2,430
9	Toni Ravnak	Czech Republic	€2,200

Event #27 €250 PLO 4/5/6 Card

Buy-In: €250
Entries: 69
Prize Pool: €14,748

Position	Player	Country	Amount
1	Mario Eder	Austria	€4,950
2	Scott Kenyon	England	€3,250
3	Antonios Nedis	Greece	€1,890
4	Lachezar Tsenov	Bulgaria	€1,350
5	Leo Mathe	France	€950
6	Youri Poppel	Netherlands	€750
7	Michael Cauchi	Malta	€630
8	Yann Preval	France	€528
9	Sami Pulliainen	Finland	€450

€125 NLH Thursday Madness

Buy-In: €125
Entries: 80
Prize Pool: €8,360
Date: 12-09-2024

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Konstantinos Papadimitriou	Greece	€2,700
2	Aleksiy Baranovskiy	Russia	€1,650
3	Ricky Kanani	England	€1,050
4	Emil Simonea	France	€720
5	Sami Hadell	Sweden	€530
6	Alari Korkjas	Estonia	€410
7	Julius Jurksaitis	Lithuania	€330
8	Davit Sherazadishvili	Georgia	€280
9	Rain Molderkivi	Estonia	€250
10	Kristian Karlsson	Sweden	€220
11	Jason Kiselis	Australia	€220

Event #31 €250 Open Face Chinese

Buy-In: €250
Entries: 65
Prize Pool: €13,893

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Siarhei Narozhny	Belarus	€4,800
2	Martin "Franke" von Zweigbergk	Sweden	€3,100
3	Scott Kenyon	England	€1,850
4	Vasyl Vorynka	Ukraine	€1,115
5	Jorge Garcia Galiani	Spain	€1,115
6	Pierre Joubert	France	€760
7	Harald Redl	Austria	€630
8	Petr Dvoracek	Czech Republic	€523

Event #32 €125 Festival Queens

Buy-In: €125
Entries: 22
Prize Pool: €2,229

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Noelia Rico	Sweden	€924.50*
2	Radica Kanani	Portugal	€924.50*
3	Malin Johansen	Norway	€450

*Denotes 2-way deal

Event #33 €125 Texas Surprise

Buy-In: €125
Entries: 92
Prize Pool: €9,614

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Aleksiy Baranovskiy	Russia	€3,130
2	Ricky Kanani	England	€2,030
3	Andreas Sanden	Norway	€1,150
4	Ernie Micallef	Malta	€850
5	Jonas Rosqvist	Sweden	€620
6	Sander Mets	Estonia	€480
7	Maria Koutsouki	Greece	€380
8	Jason Kiselis	Australia	€290
9	Patrik Andersson	Sweden	€244
10	Alan Daly	Ireland	€220
11	Erik Dahlgren	Sweden	€220

Event #35 €250 Big O

Buy-In: €250
Entries: 54
Prize Pool: €11,542

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Gia Carnestrom	Sweden	€3,506*
2	Scott Kenyon	England	€3,294*
3	Georgios Tavoularis	Greece	€1,600
4	Karev Tralla	Estonia	€1,150
5	Antoine Degiorgio	Malta	€840
6	Christian Arstad	Norway	€630
7	Vicken Maghakian	France	€522

*Denotes 2-way deal

Event #38 €250 PLO Freezeout

Buy-In: €250
Entries: 27
Prize Pool: €5,771

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Jacco Hester	Netherlands	€2,550
2	David Lappin	Ireland	€1,550
3	Daniel Orlowski	Poland	€1,040
4	Silvana Agius	Malta	€631

Event #39 €250 Texas Mystery Bounty

Buy-In: €250
Entries: 140
Prize Pool: €15,925 plus €14,000 in bounties

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Michail Tastanis	Greece	€4,250
2	Igor Bukowski	Poland	€2,750
3	Hristo Dimitrov	Bulgaria	€1,830
4	Siarhei Narozhny	Belarus	€1,250
5	Marnix Reijers	Netherlands	€980
6	Raphael Toledo	Malta	€780
7	Maria Koutsouki	Greece	€640
8	Patrick Lebenbauer	Austria	€520
9	Marc Grobety	Switzerland	€420
10	Nandor Fejes	Hungary	€340
11	Angelo Patane	Italy	€340
12	Lauri Nugin	Estonia	€275
13	Stephen McCabe	Scotland	€275
14	Lewis Aikman	Scotland	€275
15	Glenn Micallef	Malta	€250
16	Lorenzo Pannunzi	Italy	€250
17	Eirik Presttun	Norway	€250
18	Malin Johansen	Norway	€250

Extra Event €125 2-7 Triple Draw

Buy-In: €125
Entries: 56
Prize Pool: €5,852
Date: 14-09-2024

Position	Player	Country	Amount (€)
1	Damian Michalski	Sweden	€1,250*
2	Steven Fitzpatrick	England	€1,200*
3	Terje Jahn	Norway	€1,200*
4	Karev Tralla	Estonia	€1,200*
5	Barrie Dear	England	€440
6	Yann Preval	France	€320
7	Sami Hadell	Sweden	€242

*Denotes 4-way deal

Extra Event €125 NLH Saturday Madness

Buy-In: €125
Entries: 67
Prize Pool: €7,001
Date: 14-09-2024

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Joseph Grech	Malta	€2,450
2	Lachezar Tsenov	Bulgaria	€1,570
3	Lukas Zboril	Czech Republic	€950
4	Andre Larsen	Norway	€660
5	Miguel Fernandez	Spain	€490
6	Harald Redl	Austria	€360
7	Jan Petrzilka	Czech Republic	€280
8	Rickard Olsson	Sweden	€241

Event #42 €60 Texas Lowroller

Buy-In: €60
Entries: 52
Prize Pool: €2,470

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Rafael de Asevedo Silva	Brazil	€860
2	Karl Gialanze	Malta	€550
3	Firoz Kadirbaks	Netherlands	€370
4	Emmanuel Sant	England	€250
5	Jan Oedegaard	Norway	€180
6	Giovanni Aleo	Italy	€140
7	Lars Smeets	Netherlands	€120

Event #43 Senior 50+

Buy-In: €250
Entries: 47
Prize Pool: €10,046

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Joakim Olin	Sweden	€3,750
2	Thomas Lind	Sweden	€2,450
3	Willem de Jong	Netherlands	€1,550
4	Venanzio Pasubio	Italy	€1,020
5	Christophe Debaene	Belgium	€750
6	Calogero Drago	Italy	€526

Event #45 €1,100 Open Face Chinese High Roler

Buy-In: €1,100
Entries: 15
Prize Pool: €14,250

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Wouter Schuurbiers	Belgium	€8,550
2	Tomasz Walkowiak	Poland	€5,700

Extra Event €125 KO Madness

Buy-In: €125 (€60 per KO)
Entries: 73
Prize Pool: €3,248
Date: 15-09-2024

Position	Player	Country	Prize
1	Michael Cauchi	Malta	€805.00*
2	Nikolaos Sarlikiotis	Greece	€740.00*
3	Aleksiy Baranovskiy	Russia	€635.00*
4	Raimondas Gudeliauskas	Lithuania	€280.00
5	Stephen McCabe	Scotland	€220.00
6	Rafael De Asevedo Silva	Brazil	€180.00
7	Lewis Aikman	Scotland	€150.00
8	Dalton Bezzina	Malta	€128.00
9	Fedor Stadtrucker	Slovakia	€110.00

*Denotes 3-way deal