Yes, Yes, folks! We arrrived in Malta and the weather is simply amazing! It's time for the partypoker Millions Malta, where we will be liveblogging the Grand Prix event with a guaranteed of €1 Million. Of course, we will be trying to add some of the other events in the mix. The Hydra High Roller will be continued today at 15:00 CET, where some interesting names are involved such as the Dutchmen Teun Mulder and Michel Molenaar, but also the likes of partypoker pro Matt Staples, Jonathan Abdellatif, Dominik Nitsche, Bart Lybaert, and many more.
The Ladies event got played out to a winner yesterday, and we saw Twitch sensation and team GGpoker Andrijana 'Callmelija' Gligoric at the final table. We will share the results with you later on today.
During this week, we will mainly focus on the Grand Prix Event. Day 1a and 1b already have been played out last weekend, where the early birds got a discounted buy-in price of €400, instead of the initial €550 buy-in. Day 1c is on the schedule for today, and will kick off at 18:00 CET. Find below the chip counts of the first two starting flights:
| First Name | Surname | Country | Chips |
| Jacques Ammiel | Blit | Argentina | 1,226,000 |
| David | Salamanca Calero | Spain | 909,000 |
| Guillermo Alejandro Giner | Ceballos | Spain | 876,000 |
| Juuso | Keskalito | Finland | 674,000 |
| Jacob | Mulhern | England | 645,000 |
| Sebastian | Mortensen | Denmark | 631,000 |
| Jonathan | Stoll | France | 623,000 |
| Gaspare | Sposato | Italy | 602,000 |
| Samuel | Olave | Spain | 553,000 |
| Elvijs | Kucereruks | Latvia | 542,000 |
| Marcin | Kruk | Poland | 530,000 |
| Blair | Payne-Armstrong | Scotland | 486,000 |
| Grant | Anderson | USA | 481,000 |
| Andrei | Babatie | Romania | 476,000 |
| Ivan | Picavet | Belgium | 463,000 |
| Nima | Saken Shaft | Germany | 460,000 |
| Joaquin Matias | Ruiz Travi | Argentina | 448,000 |
| Marc | Schembri | Malta | 430,000 |
| Yoan | Cody | France | 405,000 |
| Cyril | Vierra | France | 376,000 |
| Boaz | Mizrahi | Israel | 375,000 |
| Richard | Sim | Scotland | 360,000 |
| Dzintars | Lacis | Latvia | 358,000 |
| Kevin | Francica | Malta | 357,000 |
| Elamine | Oukerimi Mohamed | Italy | 349,000 |
| Abdellah | Baali | Algeria | 342,000 |
| Rares | Bodea | Malta | 332,000 |
| Maria | Vourlidaki | Romania | 313,000 |
| Vyacheslav | Churkin | Russia | 309,000 |
| Hugo | Loustau | France | 301,000 |
| Fabian | Donovan | England | 284,000 |
| Mantas | Petrauskas | Lithuania | 284,000 |
| Victor | Bedy | USA | 258,000 |
| Brian | Calleja | Malta | 255,000 |
| Clement | Kerrien | Malta | 250,000 |
| Richard | Bouette | France | 247,000 |
| Alessandro | Roganti | Italy | 245,000 |
| Salvatore | Ritrovato | Italy | 230,000 |
| Xabi | Carricart | France | 228,000 |
| Danas | Dambrauskas | Lithuania | 220,000 |
| Gorjan | Jakimovski | North Macedonia | 214,000 |
| Ahmed | Ibrahimi | France | 212,000 |
| Alexandre | Arabia | France | 210,000 |
| Jens | Voertmann | Germany | 207,000 |
| Thomas | Bellanger | France | 199,000 |
| Marc | Sanz Clausin | Spain | 199,000 |
| Emanuel | Antonacci | Italy | 194,000 |
| Stepen | Caruana | Malta | 192,000 |
| Carmelo | Maugeri | Italy | 180,000 |
| Johannes | Kuusisto | Finland | 172,000 |
| Ernesto | Maiorca | Italy | 171,000 |
| Michael | Cauchi | Malta | 170,000 |
| Kamil | Skawinski | Poland | 158,000 |
| Giulio | Spampinato | Italy | 156,000 |
| Guiseppe | Incognito | Italy | 153,000 |
| Salvatore | Caruso | Italy | 152,000 |
| Maxime | Chilaud | France | 152,000 |
| Romain | Nardin | France | 126,000 |
| Gaetano | Reale | Italy | 121,000 |
| Jason | Grima | Malta | 115,000 |
| Andre | Grech | Malta | 108,000 |
| Soner | Vanelderen | Belgium | 100,000 |
| Tanguy | Pellerin | France | 98,000 |
| Erik | Lindqwist | Sweden | 92,000 |