The 2025 Battle of Malta Spring Edition has now reached its final table. It will be played out to a finish at Intercontinental Hotel, adjoined to Casino Malta, with play commencing at 2pm. There are now just eight players left out of the 1,542 who began the quest for ultimate triumph, the €120,000 top prize and a very unique trophy.

The big stack going into the final is Adrian Ziemichod from Poland, who commands over a third of the chips in play. American Robert Perelman lies in second with just under half the stack of the chip leader, with Finnish Rasmus Lundström just a pip behind in 3rd.

With the exception of Attila Szucs from Hungary who is the short stack, the rest of the chasing pack are from Italy. Three of the poker azzurri are Oscar Arezzo, Giovanni Caggia and Luca Tonarelli and all will be walking away with their biggest cashes of their poker lives, wherever they finish on the final table.

The largest stacked of three Sicilians to have made it this far is the flamboyant Flaviano Cammisuli. The 33-year old from Pacino is an experienced player who has been coming to the Battle of Malta for many years. It’s also not his first final table, as he was 6th in the 2016 Battle of Malta Main Event.

Chip Counts Going Into The Final

 

How to Watch the Battle of Malta Final Table

The live stream of the final table (on a 30-minute delay) will be broadcast on the Battle of Malta’s YouTube Channel. There will also be a blog following the action and a wide variety of multi-media coverage across the event’s social media platforms.

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From 24 Down to Eight

The penultimate day of the Main Event began with quick fire slaughter, as six players hit the rail within the first 40 minutes of play. The pace then slowed down and with 18 left there were still two players in contention looking for back-to-back final tables. Alessandro Siena, who finished 4th in the 2024 Autumn Edition was very unfortunate not to go deeper, but lost out in 18th place when his Q♣Q♠ was defeated by Adrian Ziemichod’s A♣9♣ after a second nine hit on the river.

Ziechimod already had a large stack at this point and his streak continued, hitting a royal flush at one point and getting paid off. He’s a strong player and with such a big stack going into the final, he may be hard to peg back. He only has two years worth of results in TheHendonMob database, however he has already amassed over $200,000 in live cashes and has made deep runs in many events. At last year’s WSOPE, he cashed no less than six times.

The other former finalist was Bulgarian Ivaylo Eftimov, one of the most aggressive players left in the tournament. However he also lost the majority of his stack in the hand in which Ziechimod made his Royal Flush, and eventually busted in 10th, just short of securing back-to-back final tables.

The most experienced player on the final is American Robert Perelman. While his style of play may not have been as aggressive as some, he quietly crept up the chip chart throughout the day to bag the second largest stack of just over 10m. His previous best result was a win on the Heartland Poker Tour in Las Vegas in 2011 for over $150,000 and he will be hoping to go close to matching that with a win here on Wednesday.

The player who experienced the biggest rollercoaster ride of the day must have been Rasmus Lundström. The 25-year old Finnish player saw his chip stack yo-yo several times, frequently trading chips with both Flaviano Cammisuli and Gabriele Carro.

With ten players left Rasmus was on the low point of his fairground poker ride, but ended the day on a high after busting Carro with a rivered straight versus the Italian’s pocket aces. Rasmus had made a risky call on the turn, which paid off when he hit his straight and managed to lure Carro to make a call with aces after going all-in on the river. He is certainly one to watch on the final table.

Side Events

Tuesday was the last day in which side events were running, as Wednesday will focus solely on the final table of the Main Event. There were four tournaments that took place, starting with the €300 MAS NLH, in which 131 players entered, creating a prize pool of €32,357, with €7,750 up top for the winner. That honour went to Salvatore Patti from Italy, who beat Battle of Malta legend Fotios Ntamaris from Greece heads up.

The €200 Dark Knight also had its second running of the series, which also had 131 entries and in this one Greek player Anargryos Loizos managed to avenge his compatriot Fotios’s defeat by taking top honours and the €5,060 first prize. Graham Price and Keane Stevenson, both from England finished 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Twenty players contested the final €200 PLO of the week, with Denilson Gutierez Chacon from Spain claiming the victory for €1,900.

The final €150 Hyperturbo didn’t have an official sponsor, however Battle of Malta host Glenn Brown might has well have claimed it, given how much he’s donated in some of these events throughout the week. However on this occasion, he recouped at least some of his buy-ins back by finishing 4th for €570. The event had 42 entrants and was won by the UK’s Victoria McClurg for €1,630, with Poland’s Blazej Przgorzewski runner up and Emzy Oliver in 3rd.

The Battle Booth

The Battle of Malta’s daily talk show is a newly introduced element to the coverage at this edition and there have been several episodes so far, the most amusing of which is the extended show shot at the player party. It can be viewed along with all the other shows on the Battle of Malta’s YouTube Channel. Yesterday’s edition, “Behind the Scenes” is now available to view, in which Jason Glatzer and Glenn Brown are joined by Lorena and Jonathan from the media team.