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How to Qualify via Online and Live Satellites for the 2024 Autumn Malta Poker Festival

The Autumn edition of the 2024 Malta Poker Festival is fast approaching, taking place from October 27th to November 4th at the Portomaso Casino in St. Julian’s, Malta. The festival’s Grand Event will have a buy-in of €550 and a massive guaranteed prize pool of €500,000.

Those who wish to qualify for the Grand Event for a significantly smaller investment can take advantage of satellites that will be played at a variety of online poker sites, including the Grosvenor Poker App, and on the Coolbet platform, Unibet platform, as well as the iPoker Network sites of Betsson, Betsafe, Nordicbet and Guts. There will also be live satellites at the festival venue. Below you’ll find all the options where you can qualify for the festival’s biggest tournament.

Malta Poker Festival

Grosvenor Poker App

The Grosvenor Poker App will allow you to qualify online for the €550 Grand Event and the €200 Ladies First at the Malta Poker Festival. Satellite winners will be eligible for packages that include tournament entry, hotel nights and many other benefits.

Satellite dates:

  • Friday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m.: €25 Buy-In with 1 guaranteed €550 seat
  • Sunday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m.: €250 Buy-In with 5 guaranteed €2,200 MPF packages
  • Monday, October 14 at 7:30 p.m.: €50 Buy-In with 2 guaranteed with €550 seats

The MPF Main Event package includes:

  • €550 Buy-In
  • Hotel accommodation: 5 nights at the 5* Hilton Malta (€1,300)
  • Spending money / Travel expenses: €350
  • Hospitality: All-in Friday entrance to ‘Club Level 22’ Night Club for two, Casino buffet during Grand Event tournament play, Open bar at Portomaso Casino – beer, house wine, soft drinks, water, tea and coffee for 1 player during the 5 days

There will also be a satellite to the Ladies First! event on Sunday, October 13 at 9 PM that will have a €110 buy-in and will award €1,350 packages that include: Buy-In of €200, 4 nights at the Hilton Malta Hotel, Hospitality and travel expenses of €270.

More details of the satellites at this link.

Malta Poker Festival

Coolbet Passports

On the Coolbet platform, qualifying satellites will also be held offering the winners “Coolbet Passports”. They will be taking place in Step format with buy-ins of €0, €5, €30 and €150. The €1.600 Coolbet Passport includes the following:

  • 5 nights accommodation at the Valentina Hotel with breakfast for two people (30 October – 4 November).
  • 1 Grand Event Buy-in, worth €550
  • All-In Friday entrance to Club Level 22
  • Open Bar (beer/house wine, soft drinks, water, and tea/coffee) at Portomaso Casino during the 5 days of the package
  • €200 travel compensation
Time (CET)TournamentBuy-InFormatPrize
Daily at 16:00 and 18:00Coolbet Passport Daily Freebuy€0Rebuy2 x €5 tickets
Mon-Sun 17:30 and 19:30Coolbet Passport Step 1€5Re-entry2 x €30 tickets
Mon-Sat 20:00Coolbet Passport Step 2€30Re-entry2 x €150 tickets
Sunday 17:30Super Sat to CP Weekly Final€30Re-entry4 x €150 tickets
Sunday 19:30Coolbet Passport Weekly Final€150Re-entry2 x €1,600 packages

Coolbet Passport

Satellites on Unibet Poker

Unibet Poker runs seat-only qualifiers every week and also offers players the opportunity to win a packages valued at €1,500, as follows:

  • Every Wednesday at 21:00 CEST: €50 buy-in seat only qualifier with 1x €550 seat GTD
  • Every Thursday at 20:00 CEST: €250 buy-in “package final” with 2x €1,500 packages GTD

In addition, there are feeder satellites running into these larger satellites all time.

Unibet Poker satellites

Regarding the €1,500 packages, here’s what’s included:

  • €550 Main Event Buy-in
  • 4 single hotel nights at Valentina Hotel from Oct. 31st to Nov. 4th
  • €400 in your player account

In terms of where to find the satellites on Unibet Poker, players need to look for the UDSO qualifiers on the client. Players can decide on which stop they want to use their packages/seats (the site offers 100% flexibility to players). As per tournament description, players can choose to use their €550 seat or their €1,500 package for the Malta Poker Festival.

iPoker Network Satellites on Betsson, Betsafe, Nordicbet, and Guts

Online satellites will also be played across a number of iPoker Network platforms: Guts, Nordicbet, Betsson and Betsafe. Here is the schedule of the satellites:

Malta Poker Festival iPoker satellites

The final satellite awarding €2,200 prize packages will be played on Sunday, October 13. Satellites awarding €550 buy-ins to the Grand Event will also be played on Monday and Friday. You can view the schedule of events in each of the poker client applications.

The €2,200 Malta Poker Festival package includes the following prizes:

  • €550 buy-in for Grand Event
  • A €1,300 double room and breakfast for 2 at the Hilton Malta between 30th October and 4th November
  • €300 for travel expenses
  • €50 Hospitality: including Casino Buffet, Open Bar and Club Entrance

Live satellites at the Malta Poker Festival venue, Portomaso Casino

In addition to the online satellites, live qualification will be available in satellites that will be played at Portomaso Casino from October 26th to November 1st. They will feature a €65 buy-in and a Milestone format. These are the dates and structures of the satellites:

DayTimeBuy-InFormatStackLevelsLate Reg.
October 267 PM€65Re-entry. Milestone at 150K15K208 levels
October 287 PM€65Re-entry. Milestone at 150K15K208 levels
October 291 PM€65Re-entry. Milestone at 150K15K208 levels
October 297 PM€65Re-entry. Milestone at 150K15K208 levels
October 301 PM€65Re-entry. Milestone at 150K15K208 levels
October 309 PM€65Re-entry. Milestone at 150K15K208 levels
October 317 PM€65Re-entry. Milestone at 150K15K208 levels
November 1st7 PM€65Re-entry. Milestone at 150K15K208 levels

You can find out all the details of the Autumn edition of the 2024 Malta Poker Festival in this preview. And if you want to meet the creator of the festival, Ivonne Montealegre, I invite you to read this interview we conducted with her.

Finally, you can see the full 2024 Autumn Malta Poker Festival schedule below.

2024 Autumn Malta Poker Festival schedule

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Santiago is a longtime veteran of the poker industry, having written primarily about the game in Argentina since 2009. He has published hundreds of articles in Sudamerican Poker and Pokerlogia, and has provided live media coverage at the WSOP Main Event in 2015 and 2019. In addition to being a former columnist in PokerFace Magazine, […]

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