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An Oasis of Poker on Day 6 of The Festival in Malta 

An Oasis of Poker on Day 6 of The Festival in Malta 


"Today is going to be the day when we’re going to report back to you, somehow you heard it all before, but now your chips are few. I can't believe that anybody plays the way you do, just rebuy now!"

Today is one of the busiest days of the festival, Malta, especially for the main event which has two starting fights. The first of these begins at noon, high noon if you like, we are in Malta after all.

Start TimeEvent #Buy-InTournament
12:008€550MAIN EVENT DAY 1D - 12 Levels (9 handed)
12:3031€250Open Face Chinese
13:0024€250Malta Deepstack TX NL Day 2
16:0032€125The Festival Queens
19:0033€125NL Texas Surprice
20:0034€500Cash Game Challenge €5/5 Texas
20:008€550MAIN EVENT DAY 1E Turbo - 12 Levels (9 handed)
20:30New Event€125Friday Madness (NLH Turbo)
21:0035€250BigO
22:3036€500Cash Game Challenge €5/5 PLO

The Main Event

The first flight if the day (1d) is using the same 40 minute clock as the starting days that have already been completed. The second is a turbo version at 8pm, which has 20-minute blinds levels. 

There have already had 278 entries from the first three flights. Will we make it to 500 total players? 

€250 Deepstack Day 2

The €250 Deepstack which began on Friday continues at 1pm. Late registration is still open and will remain so for the first two levels of the day. There were 91 players who took their seats on the first day, but how many more will join the event? 

€250 Open Face Chinese 

At 12.30 the Open Face Chinese begins. This one is taking place in the poker room on the lower floor of the conference centre.

Festival Queens

Today is also our ladies tournament, known as the Festival Queens event. it’s usually quite a popular one and in always conducted in good spirit.

€125 Texas Surprise

At 7pm the Texas Surprise tournament takes place. If, like me you’re wondering what that’s all about, it’s another Festival Series special, which varies each time. Sometimes there’s a surprise, sometimes there isn’t. Will there be one today? I can’t tell you that or i’d have to kill you, after all, it’s a surprise.

€125 Friday Madness

At 8.30pm the fourth of the extra Madness tournaments takes place. It has the same buy-in and structure as the Texas Surprise, just without the possibility of a surprise. so if you prefer to know what you’re playing before you enter, this is the one to go for.

Big O

The final event of the day will be the Big O event at 9pm, ensuring that PLO is on today’s itinerary.

How to Follow Festival in Malta Coverage

We're covering today's action in a number of different ways today and every day:

  • News, reports, random thoughts and chip counts by Jonathan Raab (me) can be found on the liveblog.
  • Reels and short clips on The Festival’s Instagram account, with coverage fronted by effervescent Vaclav ‘Lemon’ Dusek.
  • Interviews and montages, on YouTube presented by the one and only Andreas ‘Wiseguy’ Hoglund. Don’t mess with him by the way, he’s called Wiseguy for a reason. 
  • Photos and reels by Melvin Schroen on our Facebook page
  • Reposts and other content posted on the Festival’s X account


Photos by Mairo ‘EstonianWeirdo’ Toom. Videography by Nekit Helljesus. Video editing by Aleksandr Pljuw