Since October 27, Casino Malta has been hosting this year’s “Battle of Malta,” one of the biggest poker festivals of the year. On the first two days of the BOM, winners were crowned in the €130 Dark Knight NLH, the €340 Novibet Tag Team Event, and the €330 Pot Limit Omaha. In addition, the first flights were played in the €1.5 Million GTD €530 + 70 Battle of Malta Main Event and the €210 + 200 + 40 Mystery Siege of Malta. 
€530 + 70 Battle of Malta Main Event
There were 300 entries for Day 1a of the €530 + 70 Battle of Malta Main Event. Of those, 45 players secured their stacks and advanced to Day 2. Angelo Patane leads the field with 769,000 chips. On Day 1b, 113 entries were added. Of those, eight players are still in the running. Omri Mechetner is in first place on Day 1b (541,000). A total of 62 players out of 422 participants qualified after the two starting days. The winner of the 2022 Battle of Malta, Dimitrios Anastasakis from Greece (354,000), is still in the running, while Scotty Nguyen and Ryan DePaulo tried their luck in vain.
Chip counts at the end of Day 1a
| Place | Player | Country | Chips |
| 1 | Angelo Patane | Italy | 769,000 |
| 2 | Dimitrios Stampoultzis | Greece | 681,000 |
| 3 | Sami Pulliainen | Finland | 568,000 |
| 4 | Karl Sandoff | Sweden | 545,000 |
| 5 | Harald Redl | Austria | 521,000 |
| 6 | Cristiano Zambonelli | Italy | 513,000 |
| 7 | Sandro Carucci | Switzerland | 500,000 |
| 8 | Ziga Klopcic | Slovenia | 469,000 |
| 9 | Robin Enb | Germany | 465,000 |
| 10 | Dragan Gali | Croatia | 385,000 |
| 11 | Stanislas Prigent | France | 380,000 |
| 12 | Dimitrios Anastasakis | Greece | 354,000 |
| 13 | Andrei Mjagkov | Estonia | 338,000 |
| 14 | Sebastian Mortensen | Malta | 336,000 |
| 15 | Matteo Montanari | Italy | 308,000 |
| 16 | Lukman Islam | Bangladesh | 293,000 |
| 17 | Antonios Triantafyllakis | Greece | 289,000 |
| 18 | Anton Makejev | Estonia | 278,000 |
| 19 | Aliyyul Aldirmaz | Turkey | 264,000 |
| 20 | Dario Quattrucci | Italy | 211,000 |
| 21 | Viorel-Gabriel Gavrila | Romania | 200,000 |
| 22 | Sukru Arican | Turkey | 198,000 |
| 23 | Steven Penney | England | 198,000 |
| 24 | Vincenzo Popolo | Italy | 191,000 |
| 25 | Ashley Scott | England | 190,000 |
| 26 | Peter Vermaas | Netherlands | 185,000 |
| 27 | Jeffrey Cormier | Canada | 182,000 |
| 28 | Robert Schiller | Germany | 178,000 |
| 29 | Toni Ravnak | Czech Republic | 166,000 |
| 30 | Erik Lindqwist | Sweden | 142,000 |
| 31 | Anthony Hughes | England | 138,000 |
| 32 | Nicholas Schembri | Malta | 134,000 |
| 33 | Yuri Martins | Brazil | 127,000 |
| 34 | Imran Pirmohamed | England | 125,000 |
| 35 | Palina Mankevich | Poland | 112,000 |
| 36 | Oliver Mihajlovski | Macedonia | 97,000 |
| 37 | Tetiana Bondarchuk | Ukraine | 92,000 |
| 38 | Mathieu Hontas | France | 86,000 |
| 39 | Alexandre Bermon | France | 82,000 |
| 40 | Lorenzo Paolelli | Italy | 82,000 |
| 41 | Wayne Brook | England | 64,000 |
| 42 | Alessio Urpis | Italy | 44,000 |
| 43 | Dan Sfarlea | Romania | 42,000 |
| 44 | Stribor Gruicic | Croatia | 40,000 |
| 45 | Cameron Sinclair | England | 40,000 |
Chip counts at the end of Day 1b
| Place | Player | Country | Chips |
| 1 | Omri Mechetner | Israel | 541,000 |
| 2 | Dario Berisa | Serbia | 471,000 |
| 3 | Emmanouil Livanos | Greece | 269,000 |
| 4 | Ioannis Lazaridis | Greece | 252,000 |
| 5 | Constantin Chincisan | Romania | 212,000 |
| 6 | Michael James-Cardi | United Kingdom | 207,000 |
| 7 | Milos Lalovic | Serbia | 204,000 |
| 8 | Matteo Zanardi | Italy | 110,000 |
€450 Siege of Malta Mystery Bounty
On Day 1b of the €450 Siege of Malta Mystery Bounty, 173 entries were recorded. Uri Netanel from Israel (600,000) topped the list of 26 qualifiers. The survivors from Day 1b will join the 15 players who qualified from Day 1a. Two starting days remain.
| Place | Player | Country | Chips |
| 1 | Uri Netanel | Israel | 600,000 |
| 2 | Nicholas Rose | United Kingdom | 568,000 |
| 3 | Nikolaos Mastrantonas | Greece | 528,000 |
| 4 | Jeremie Dubois | France | 453,000 |
| 5 | Christof Birnbacher | Austria | 368,000 |
| 6 | Anastasios Vardalis | Greece | 341,000 |
| 7 | Tomas Dailidonis | Lithuania | 243,000 |
| 8 | David Lisher | United Kingdom | 212,000 |
| 9 | Philip Pearson | United Kingdom | 210,000 |
| 10 | Adrian Vogt | Switzerland | 194,000 |
| 11 | Tvrtko Cupic | Croatia | 154,000 |
| 12 | Jakub Skurzynski | Poland | 139,000 |
| 13 | Eirik Bjoerbaek | Norway | 118,000 |
| 14 | Michail Tastanis | Greece | 116,000 |
| 15 | Petros Taki | Cyprus | 108,000 |
| 16 | Arnaud Boudet | France | 104,000 |
| 17 | Giuseppe Segreto | Italy | 104,000 |
| 18 | Richard Arnott | United Kingdom | 101,000 |
| 19 | Roberto Agus | Italy | 86,000 |
| 20 | Tayfun Rodoplu | Turkey | 82,000 |
| 21 | Philipp Doehling | Germany | 78,000 |
| 22 | Andres Frey | Spain | 67,000 |
| 23 | Michele D’Amico | Italy | 64,000 |
| 24 | Scott Majorino | Switzerland | 60,000 |
| 25 | Maciej Kala | Poland | 58,000 |
| 26 | Lin Chen | China | 49,000 |
€330 Pot-Limit Omaha
The €330 Pot Limit Omaha event attracted a total of 85 entrants and generated a prize pool of €23,970, which was split among the top 13 players. Sweden’s Dan Larsson secured the victory and a prize of €6,370 after defeating Poland’s David Manczak in heads-up play.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize Money |
| 1 | Dan Larsson | Sweden | €6,370 |
| 2 | Dawid Manczak | Poland | €4,420 |
| 3 | Dimitrios Siantikos | Greece | 2,920 € |
| 4 | Erik Polluveer | Estonia | 2,280 € |
| 5 | Martin Frank | Switzerland | 1,840 € |
| 6 | Adam Milewski | Poland | €1,440 |
| 7 | Rafail Papadopoulos | Greece | 1,140 € |
| 8 | Daniele Del Gatto | Italy | 880 € |
| 9 | Paul McCann | United Kingdom | 680 € |
| 10 | Maria von Perger | Germany | 520 € |
| 11 | Oleksandr Pyliavskyi | Ukraine | 520 € |
| 12 | Davide Marchioro | Italy | 480 € |
| 13 | Manuel Persico | Italy | €480 |
€340 Novibet Tag Team Event
The €340 Novibet Tag Team Event drew 59 entries, bringing the prize pool to €16,638. Dominik Bencan from Croatia emerged as the winner, defeating Marck Moret from the Netherlands in heads-up play.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize Money |
| 1 | Dominik Bencan | Croatia | €4,870 |
| 2 | Marck Moret | Netherlands | 3,490 € |
| 3 | Andrew Fleming | United Kingdom | 2,270 € |
| 4 | Michael Geoertz | Germany | €1,710 |
| 5 | Hideki Takafuji | Japan | €1,330 |
| 6 | Marc Mehring | France | 1,030 € |
| 7 | Ian Holwill | United Kingdom | 820 € |
| 8 | Raymond MacHugh | United Kingdom | 640 € |
| 9 | Ben Haynes-Tate | United Kingdom | €480 |
€130 Dark Knight NLH
The Dark Knight NLH event drew 246 entries, resulting in a prize pool of 25,436 €. Jakub Skurzynski from Poland defeated Kenneth Heindal from Norway in heads-up play, securing a prize of 5,080 €.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize Money |
| 1 | Jakub Skurzynski | Poland | €5,080 |
| 2 | Kenneth Heindal | Norway | 3,400 € |
| 3 | Einar Hersdal | Norway | €2,480 |
| 4 | Michael Cauchi | Malta | €2,000 |
| 5 | Gil Preter | Israel | €1,560 |
| 6 | Reinis Jatnieks | Latvia | 1,180 € |
| 7 | Jan Verner | Czech Republic | 860 € |
| 8 | Matthew Thomas | United Kingdom | 640 € |
| 9 | Tony Harte | Ireland | 520 € |
| 10 | Athanasios Kostouros | Greece | 440 € |
| 11 | Gal Bonfil | Israel | 440 € |
| 12 | Wai Tang | United Kingdom | 400 € |
| 13 | Dermot Fennell | United Kingdom | 400 € |
| 14 | Mohamed Redouane | Morocco | 360 € |
| 15 | Jan Gompers | Germany | 360 € |
| 16 | Niklas Libergren | Denmark | 320 € |
| 17 | Michael Williams | United Kingdom | 320 € |
| 18 | Peter Kelly | United Kingdom | 280 € |
| 19 | Martin Roubal | Czech Republic | 280 € |
| 20 | Dennis Haarberg | Norway | 280 € |
| 21 | Marius-Marcel Popescu | Romania | 240 € |
| 22 | Benn Heys | United Kingdom | 240 € |
| 23 | Tomas Dusanek | Czech Republic | 240 € |
| 24 | Lee Cannizzaro | United Kingdom | 220 € |
| 25 | Lin Chen | China | 220 € |
| 26 | Vincenzo Meola | Italy | 220 € |
| 27 | Raimo Einberg | Estonia | 220 € |
| 28 | Michael Clayton | United Kingdom | 200 € |
| 29 | Hasan Mahmoud | Sweden | 200 € |
| 30 | Holger Friedrich | Germany | 200 € |
| 31 | Kevin Kelly | Ireland | 200 € |
| 32 | Joergen Moeller | Denmark | 180 € |
| 33 | Michel Chit | Lebanon | 180 € |
| 34 | Mario Moran | Spain | 180 € |
| 35 | Patrick Storan | Ireland | 180 € |
| 36 | Oliver Woodward | United Kingdom | 180 € |
| 37 | Ales Valenta | Czech Republic | 180 € |
| 38 | Josh Binaiev | Israel | 180 € |
| 39 | Alberto La Licata | Italy | 90 € |
| 40 | Luca Rotiroti | Italy | 90 € |
For more information, visit the Battle of Malta website.