Malta Poker Showdown’s second event took place at the Casino Di Venezia, last Sunday, the 25th April. This April edition achieved a greater participating rate than the previous month, with 32 players joining in the poker tournament, up from around 20 in the previous month.
The €150 + €15 Malta Poker showdown Tournament reached a pot of €4,800 this month giving players €2,000 more than the March’ edition of this new poker tournament in Malta.
The live poker tourney attracted a number of Maltese players together with a host of foreigners based in Malta, who all share a love for Texas Hold’em poker, the world’s favourite card game. Swedish finalists Lars Johannson and Daniel Erikkson were in fact the last two players at the table after the tournament had almost reached its final stages.
Daniel Erikkson took down the first prize with his full house made up of 5’s full of 9’s at the concluding hand of the Malta Poker Showdown’s final table. Daniel’s hand sent out Lars Johannson in 2nd place taking home a respectable €1,000. Daniel took home the biggest cash prize amounting to €2,000 for his enduring focus at the poker tables.
A total of 5 players were paid out in the Malta Poker Showdown event # 2 and were classified as follows:
1st Daniel Erikkson €2000
2nd Lars Johansson €1000
3rd Ray Bonnici €800
4th Markus Svennerstal €400
5th Andrew Cutajar €300 [Finalist at the Malta Poker Open 2009]
Casino di Venezia are hosting the May edition of the Malta Poker Showdown, on the 30th May 2010. A variety of satellites will be hosted at the Live Poker room at the Casino di Venezia as well as their Online Poker Room at the Venice Poker Club.