2 Barrels: farm manager with no money wins Battle of Malta; PokerNews own goal

Two Barrels for you including a farm manager who couldn’t afford to buy breakfast winning the largest Battle of Malta of all time, and PokerNews scoring an own goal with the coverage of the Chris Ferguson saga.

The 2017 Battle of Malta (BOM) will undoubtedly be one of the front-runners for a Global Poker Index (GPI) European Poker Award after it grew in size for the sixth successive season.

The €550 buy-in event, organised by PokerListings, attracted 2,074 entrants, and a Farm Manager from Israel took home a record €200,000 in prize money, despite declaring to the live reporting team:

“99% of players in this field had more experience than me.”