#8: Iron Throne Marathon

Event #8, the Iron Throne Marathon was a €110 buy-in NLHE tournament offering a heafty €125,000 guarantee. 1,449 players joined the festivities, creating a total prize pool of €146,638.80. Re-buys were available for this tournament for the first 4 hours of the event which took just over 10 hours to complete. When it completed, ‘Songonku’ stood victorious having earned €20,213.04 for the victory.

#9: Bounty for the Queen

With the marathon event for the Iron Throne being completed, it was time to find the Queen. This €315 Bounty tournament offered a €250,000 guarantee and brought 1,044 players to search for the queen and claim the biggest bounty. Running for just under 9 hours, ‘geladinhaRLS’ was the last to fall as ‘ROLLINGDR0NE’ was the last player standing, earning €34,663.55 for the win including €22,393.13 in earned bounties. 

The Side Events

Through the week there were 39 other events associated with the Battle of Malta Online Poker Series, too many to review here but if you are curious, you can always take a look at PokerCraft in the GGPoker client for all the details. We will look at the 2 biggest daily guarantees from the week, the Bounty Hunters Malta €52.50 and the Bounty Hunters HR Malta €525. These events offer guarantees of at least €100,000 and continue to run daily for the duration of the online poker tournament series.  

Monday’s pair of events both offered guarantees of €120,000. The tournaments saw 3,184 and 281 players respectively enter, creating prize pools of €159,200 for the lower buy-in and €140,500 for the High Rollers. At the end of the events, it was ‘Im_goodman’ who won the €52.50 event for €14,772.55 and ‘Maskvv’ who claimed victory in the €525 buy-in event, earning €23,832.81.  

Tuesday saw a small decrease in the participants of the €52.50 event, with 3,143 players joining, while the High Roller event increased by more than 15% creating a total field of 327 participants.The tournaments, which both offered a €120,000 guarantee, took approximately 8 hours to complete. The High Roller event saw a prize pool of €163,500 with ‘cepsil304’ earning the biggest share with €20,273.48 in bounties and a total of €30,649.61 for the win. In the €52.50 buy-in, it was ‘Duong Hoang’ earning the victory for a total prize of €14,699.66.

The Wednesday Bounty Hunters Malta €52.50 collected a total of 3,165 players and created a prize pool of €158,250, beating the €120,000 guarantee. It took almost 8.75 hours for ‘TuMbAk’ to take the championship and earn €14,050.36 for the work. Meanwhile, in the High Rollers, only 288 players signed up, creating a prize pool of €144,000, exceeding the €110,000 guarantee. Taking just over 8 hours to complete, it was ‘TheGreatAmu’ defeating ‘Limiteddd’ to earn the €29,170.39 top prize, including €19,574.24 in bounties. 

The Thursday editions of these two tournaments both hosted guarantees of €120,000 and attracted the biggest player counts of the week in these events. The High Roller version attracted 380 players creating a prize pool of €190,000 while the €52.50 buy-in had 3,302 players join creating a prize pool of €165,100. The High Roller event was won by ‘Nisiti’ who earned €32,820.15 while the €52.50 saw ‘Iazrinnnn’ end victorious earning €12,351.42.