Do you fancy taking a trip to sunny Malta to compete in The Festival in Malta Main Event? What if we told you that you could be jetting off to the Portomaso Casino in St. Julian’s to play in a €550 buy-in Main Event, having only spent €7.50? With Paddy Power Poker, you can do precisely this.
The Festival in Malta runs from September 11-20. It features a pair of Main Events, each costing €550 to enter. One Main Event is a traditional No-Limit Hold’em tournament, while the other is a T.O.R.S.E.S. mixed game where players compete across 2-7 Triple Draw, Omaha Hi-Lo, Razz, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo, and Sviten Special.
Paddy Power Poker is one of the online poker operators running satellites for The Festival in Malta. Those satellites come in two guises: €70 buy-ins that award €550 seats only, and €100 buy-ins that award packages worth €1,850. Let’s focus on the latter of those two.
Win a €1,850 The Festival Package
Although the package-awarding satellites command a €100 buy-in, feeder satellites run around the clock. Those feeder satellites start from only €7.50.
Whether you’re using a €100 ticket you won or buying in directly, you’ll need to find the next available The Festival Malta 5x€1,850|D1 tournament. Here, you’ll sit down with 10,000 chips and play to 10-minute levels, with blinds starting at 50/100/10a.
The latest Day 1s last is until the end of Level 16. Any players with chips in front of them at that point advance to Day 2, where the top five finishers are guaranteed an €1,850 package, with additional packages added to the prize pool for every €1,850 more than the €9,250 guarantee.
You are permitted to play in as many of these Day 1s as your bankroll allows, but only your biggest stack is in play on Day 2 if you progress more than once.
The next available Day 2 begins at 8:30 p.m. on August 9, with another scheduled for the same time on August 16.
Get your hands on a The Festival in Malta €1,850 package, and you’ll receive the following:
Six nights’ hotel accommodation (September 14-20)
€550 The Festival 2026 Main Event ticket
The Festival Cap
€250 Travel Expenses credited to your account
Hospitality package
The Festival in Malta 2026 Schedule
As previously mentioned, The Festival in Malta features a pair of Main Events, and you can use the seat you won for either of them. The €550 T.O.R.S.E.S. Main Event runs from September 13-15, with the No-Limit Hold’em edition running September 15-20.
Twelve months ago, the €550 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event drew in 666 entrants, who created a €316,550 prize pool. Portugal’s Nuno Morais was the player who emerged victorious in St. Julian’s, earning a career-best €61,001 for his efforts.
Expand the table below to see the exciting The Festival in Malta schedule in all of its glory. Note the wide variety of buy-ins, formats, and variants.
Date
Time
Event
Guarantee
Fri 11 Sep
2:00 p.m.
€70 Satellite to Main Event
3x €550 seats
6:00 p.m.
€35 Satellite to THMC
5x €250 seats
Sat 12 Sep
2:00 p.m.
€70 Satellite to Main Event
3x €550 seats
6:00 p.m.
€35 Satellite to THMC
5x €250 seats
Sun 13 Sep
1:00 p.m.
€250 NLHE THMC Day 1a
2:00 p.m.
€550 T.O.R.S.E.S Mixed Game Main Event Day 1a
6:00 p.m.
€35 Satellite to THMC Day 1b
5x €250 seats
Mon 14 Sep
2:00 p.m.
€250 NLHE THMC Day 1b
2:30 p.m.
€550 T.O.R.S.E.S. Mixed Games Main Event Day 1b
6:00 p.m.
€70 Satellite to Main Event Day 1a
4x €550 seats
8:00 p.m.
€250 Cash Game Challenge €2/€2 NLHE
8:30 p.m.
€125 Sviten Mix
8:30 p.m.
€125 NLHE 7-2 Special
10:30 p.m.
€250 Cash Game Challenge €2/€2 PLO
Tue 15 Sep
12:00 p.m.
€550 NLHE Main Event Day 1a
12:30 p.m.
T.O.R.S.E.S. Main Event Day 2
3:00 p.m.
€350 Sviten Special
3:30 p.m.
€125 Roulette Championship
6:00 p.m.
€70 Satellite to Main Event Day 1b
3x €550 seats
7:30 p.m.
€250 NLHE THMC Day 1c Turbo
8:00 p.m.
€250 Cash Game Challenge €2/€2 NLHE
8:00 p.m.
€125 Pot-Limit 2-7 Double Draw
10:30 p.m.
€250 Cash Game Challenge €2/€2 PLO
Wed 16 Sep
12:00 p.m.
€550 NLHE Main Event Day 1b
12:00 p.m.
NLHE THMC Day 2
12:30 p.m.
€350 8-Game
4:00 p.m.
€125 Blackjack Championship
5:00 p.m.
€1,100 PLO High Roller
€20,000
6:00 p.m.
€70 Satellite to Main Event Day 1c
3x €550 seats
8:00 p.m.
€250 Cash Game Challenge €2/€2 NLHE
8:30 p.m.
€125 Pineapple KO
10:30 p.m.
€250 Cash Game Challenge €2/€2 PLO
Thu 17 Sep
12:00 p.m.
€550 NLHE Main Event Day 1c
1:00 p.m.
€250 Razzdugi
5:00 p.m.
€350 NLHE Mystery Bounty Day 1a
5:00 p.m.
€1,100 NLHE High Roller
€30,000
7:00 p.m.
€70 Super Satellite to Main Event Day 1d
5x €550 seats
8:00 p.m.
€250 Cash Game Challenge €2/€2 NLHE
8:30 p.m.
€125 NLHE KO Live Straddle
9:00 p.m.
€125 PLO 4/5/6 card 7-Max
10:30 p.m.
€250 Cash Game Challenge €2/€2 PLO
Fri 18 Sep
12:00 p.m.
€550 NLHE Main Event Day 1d
12:30 p.m.
€250 Open Face Chinese Pineapple
4:00 p.m.
€125 NLGE The Festival Queens
5:00 p.m.
€350 NLHE Mystery Bounty Day 1b
8:00 p.m.
€500 Cash Game Challenge €2/€2 NLHE
8:00 p.m.
€550 NLHE Main Event Day 1e Turbo
9:00 p.m.
€125 Big O
10:30 p.m.
€500 Cash Game Challenge €2/€2 PLO
Sat 19 Sep
12:00 p.m.
NLHE Main Event Day 2
12:30 p.m.
€250 Baby T.O.R.S.E.S. Supreme
1:00 p.m.
€125 Sportsbook Championship
5:00 p.m.
€350 NLHE Mystery Bounty Day 1c
6:30 p.m.
€1,100 10-Game Mix Day 1
€15,000
8:00 p.m.
€500 Cash Game Challenge €2/€2 NLHE
8:30 p.m.
€125 NLHE/PLO Mixed Bomb Pot ROE Madness
9:00 p.m.
€125 Slots Championship
10:30 p.m.
€500 Cash Game Challenge €2/€2 PLO
Sun 20 Sep
11:00 a.m.
€350 NLHE Mystery Bounty Day 1d Turbo
12:00 p.m.
€250 NLHE Seniors Championship
12:00 p.m.
€1,100 10-Game Mix
1:30 p.m.
€125 NLHE Mini Main Event
2:00 p.m.
NLHE Main Event Day 3
3:00 p.m.
€1,100 OFC Pineapple High Roller
4:30 p.m.
NLHE Mystery Bounty Day 2
Matthew Pitt
Senior Editor
Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.
