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Yesterday the European Poker Tour Malta kicked off with the €25,000 High Roller. A total of 57 players registered. With 10 players opting to reenter after busting, the total amount of entries came to 67.
After 8 levels of play, 49 remain. Registration is open till 12:15, 15 minutes before the start of Day 2. So high rollers still have some time to enter, there just might be one or two who played in the Berlin high roller making their way to this little island in the Mediterranean Sea. As registration is still open, a seat draw won't be released till start of play.
Quan Zhou did best yesterday, turning his 250,000 starting stack into 952,000. Dietrich "2pacnrw16" Fast, who won a bracelet last week in Berlin and won the Thursday Thrill online as well, did good as well with 931,000. John Andress (72,000) and Ivan Luca (53,000) start out as the short stacks today. The first level of play will be 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante.
The plan for today's Day 2 is to play 10 levels, or down to a final table of 8, whichever comes faster. There's a 75-minute break after the 6th level of play today, which should be around 6:55 pm.
| level | small blind | big blind | ante |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 3,000 | 6,000 | 1,000 |
| 10 | 4,000 | 8,000 | 1,000 |
| 20 minutes break | |||
| 11 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 1,000 |
| 12 | 6,000 | 12,000 | 2,000 |
| 20 minutes break | |||
| 13 | 8,000 | 16,000 | 2,000 |
| 14 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 3,000 |
| 75 minutes break | |||
| 15 | 12,000 | 24,000 | 3,000 |
| 16 | 15,000 | 30,000 | 4,000 |
| 20 minutes break | |||
| 17 | 20,000 | 40,000 | 5,000 |
| 18 | 25,000 | 50,000 | 5,000 |
Levels are 60 minutes long.
