CoinPoker’s Battle of Malta Online has finished well above its original guarantee, turning the 23-day festival into one of the platform’s biggest online series to date.
Running from July 12 through August 3, the festival paid out $35,120,885 across 764 tournaments, beating the advertised $30 million guarantee by more than $5.1 million. The schedule attracted more than 528,000 tournament entries, excluding satellites, while players logged more than 8.1 million hands throughout the series.
CoinPoker also reported a new platform record of more than 25,000 concurrent players during the closing weekend.
Main Event Draws Nearly 4,800 Entries
The centerpiece was the $565 Battle of Malta Online Main Event, which attracted 4,778 entries and generated a prize pool of $2,546,674.
The player competing as Hemingway finished on top and collected $250,000 for the victory. Hemingway also ended the festival as its biggest overall winner, earning more than $304,000 across the full series.
Two lower-buy-in Main Events produced similarly large fields. MarianexBJ won the $55 Main Challenger for $50,000, while Syn took down the $11 Main Crusader for $10,000 after navigating an 11,663-entry field – the largest single tournament field of the festival.
The high-roller schedule also produced several major payouts. Pensefortement won the $1,500 CoinMasters Bitcoin High Roller for $235,000, while MystereEtBouleDeGomme collected $129,129 for winning The Iron Throne. The $5,200 High Roller went to Giselle54 for $68,244.
CoinPoker Already Has Its Next $50 Million Series Ready
CoinPoker is moving quickly from one major festival to another.
The Global Online Poker Championship is scheduled to begin August 23 with $50 million in guarantees, tournaments spread across three regional time zones and buy-ins ranging from $2.20 to $25,500.
That makes the Battle of Malta result more than just a successful standalone festival. CoinPoker enters its next major series immediately after producing more than $35 million in payouts and recording its highest concurrent-player count to date.