Let’s take a quick look at what’s going on right now at The Festival in Malta.
€550 Main event
Day 1d of the main event, which is the last starting flight to be played on a regular clock, is now in the seventh level of the day with 131 players registered so far. There are exactly 100 remaining in the seats at this point in time brings total of entrance in the main event across all starting days up to 375 with a further 5 1/2 levels to play in this one, plus the turbo fight tonight. Registration is also open for the first two levels of the Saturday’s Day 2.
Having a tilt at making day two today is JJ Hazan, who is on his first bullet of the tournament, but will this one be enough secure his continuation tomorrow?
Other players taking part today include the Vamos Poker Tour Main Event winner Giovanni Piccione, Bulgarian Lachezar Tsvetanov and exuberant Englishman Kenny Burke, a finalist in The Hendon Mob Championship, who is unusually quiet today, perhaps nursing a headache induced by the 15 pints he drank yesterday.
It’s eerily quiet in the main poker room today with almost no table banter anywhere in the room. Do these players even know that they are at the festival series? It’s really very uncharacteristic, but perhaps they will loosen up as the day progresses.
€250 Deepstack Championship
The €250 Deepstack, which is a two day event is now in level 17 and when late registration closed there were a total of 133 entrants, generating a price pool of €28,428. The top 15 players will be paid and the winner will take home €7850/
There are now 42 players remaining including Vince Calenti, however his stack has recently taken a hit to leave him short. Perhaps the problem today is that he returned to multi-tasking to try and do his day job at the same time as playing. Should’ve left the tablet at home pal!
€250 Open Face Chinese
The Open Face Chinese tournament is now up to 60 entrants, on level 8 now and late registration still open, but closes soon. With 21 players left in the tournament the overwhelming Chip leader is once again Siarhei Narohzny, who is on a table with Scott Kenyon, which is being live streamed on his twitch channel. Sascha Manns, Franke, Eva ‘Chic’ Jiretorn, and Mati Pirn are among the remaining players in the field.
€125 Festival Queens
The Festival Queens ladies tournament got off to a slow start with just 4 players registered by the time play commence. However, that number has now risen to 14 with Gia Carnestrom, Maili Tannbaum and Julie Whitworth recently taking their seats in the tournament.
