The 2025 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition Main Event has now reached its final table. Over 6,000 entries were made, resulting in a final prize pool of almost €2.75m. There are now just eight players left with a chance of taking down the €254,070 first prize and etching their name into the event’s history book.

They will return to Casino Malta on Wednesday for one final day of play, which will be live streamed on the Battle of Malta’s YouTube channel. The blog coverage that has been running throughout the festival will also continue on the final day.

The Main Event final table was scheduled to be the only event taking place on Wednesday, but it will now be accompanied by the final table of the ACR Poker Super High Roller, which did not complete on Tuesday and had nine players left.

Main Event Day 4

The day began with 39 players still in possession of chip stacks, but only 38 returned to take their seats for the penultimate day. Northern Irish Darren Harbinson was the absentee, having been struck down with food poisoning that forced him to quit playing before the end of Day 3.

He was the only competitor in the tournament not to fall on the battlefield, succumbing to less than friendly fire in a hospital bed, with suspected salmonella poisoning. Harbinbson’s stack continued without him on Day 4 and he eventually finished in 28th place for €6,800. Best wishes are extended to Darren from everyone at the Battle of Malta. Get well soon!

Gabriele Re, the last remaining former champion did not make it onto another final table. He returned with one of the biggest stacks of the field, but busted in 20th for €9,300.

Overnight chip leader Ioannis Daskalis fared somewhat better, but he fell with 10 players left, just missing the final table. But that was not the final exit of the day, as there are only eight seats available on the live streamed final table. Soon after Daskalis had departed the scene, his compatriot Emmanouil Fountoulakis, the last Greek player left, became the TV table bubble boy.

Strong Italian Presence on Main Event Final Table

Latvian Davis Modans takes a slim chip lead onto Wednesday’s final table. His stack of 48.15m is less than one big blind ahead of Italian Candido Cappiello on 47.62m. The final table includes no less than five Italian players, including Luigi Shehadeh, who with over $1.4m in lifetime cashes, is the most experienced of the remaining contenders. But he returns as the short-stack, with less than 14 big blinds.

Marco D’Amico sits in third place with 30.72m, just ahead of Polish Rafal Lubczynski on 30.07m. Romanian Cristian-Marius Campan has the fifth latest stack of 23.12m. Giuseppe Ciancio on 16.37m and Leonardo Romeo on 13.95m complete the final table line up.

Position	Player	Country	Chips	Seat	Big Blinds
1	Davis Modans	Latvia	48.15M	2	96
2	Candido Cappiello	Italy	47.62M	5	95
3	Marco D’amico	Italy	30.72M	1	61
4	Rafal Lubczynski	Poland	30.07M	6	60
5	Cristian-Marius Campan	Romania	23.12M	4	46
6	Giuseppe Ciancio	Italy	16.37M	7	33
7	Leonardo Romeo	Italy	13.95M	8	28
8	Luigi Shehadeh	Italy	6.9M	3	14

 

Who will win? Tune in from 2pm onwards to follow the action and find out who will emerge victorious  in the Battle of Malta.

Three-Way Chop in High Roller

The record breaking €1,100 High Roller returned for its third day with 24 players left in contention for the title. Included in the final day field was Dimitrios Ampliantis, who had won both Dark Knight and White Knight trophies earlier in the festival. He made the final table, but was denied a third trophy, finishing in 9th place.

With three players left, an ICM deal was done and they played on for the trophy only. Latvian Arturs Daugis, who took €96,900 in the chop, went on to secure the title. Norwegian Gunnar Lie was second for €91,400, while Ludovic Morda took €73,050 for third place.

Super High Roller Extended to Third Day

The €2,200 ACR Poker Super High Roller began on Monday, but allowed late entry for the first three levels of Day 2. More than half of the 131 who took part entered during the second day, but at 4.30am play was suspended when it got down to the final nine. The UK’s Alex Whitenstall takes the chip lead onto the final table, which will resume at 2pm and play down to a finish.

Super High Roller Final Table Chip Counts

Pos	Player Name	Chips	Seat
1	Alex Whitenstall	1.82M	3
2	Matiss Celmins	1.42M	6
3	Robert Kuhn	740K	7
4	Robert Rohr	705K	2
5	Niklas Deitmer	505K	5
6	Kasjusz Zycinski	390K	4
7	Benedetto Sutera	375K	1
8	Valeh Ganbarov	330K	8
9	Paul Johnston	320K	9

Nezhoda Steers HORSE To Victory

Rene Nezhoda began the day with a second bullet in Day 2 of the ACR Poker High Roller. That didn’t work out for him, but later entered the €330 H.O.R.S.E, from which he emerged victorious, ensuring his trip to Malta resulted in a trophy after all. He defeated Andrew Fleming from the UK heads up, with a large crowd cheering him on to the victory. The €4,670 first prize did at least help cover the cost of his Super High Roller bullets.

Jeff Boski Experiences Win at Battle of Malta

Jeff Sluzinski is one of ACR Poker’s sponsored streamers. Better known by his online moniker Jeff Boski, he was one of several Stormers who visited the Battle of Malta Autumn Edition. Yesterday he made his first final table of the festival, taking fourth place in the Shark Bay EuroRounders Bounty, claiming fourth place for €3,395.

On Tuesday he entered the €150 Poker Experience Tour Hyper Turbo. Event operator Glenn Brown also played this and scraped into the money, but it was Boski who blew away the field, defeating Nuno de Sales heads up to take down the final trophy of the festival.

White Knight/Dark Knight

The final Yin and Yang Knight events of the festival both ran on Tuesday. The first to begin was the €400 White Knight, which was won by Italian Mark Redli for €11,950. He topped a field of 167 entrants, defeating English Nigel Hartwell for the trophy.

The €200 Dark Knight had a huge turnout of 627, with 95 players making the money in the biggest saver on the schedule. Norwegian Johannes Valla won the trophy and €14,350 after an ICM chip with Romanian  Ionut, but the Romanian took the most in the deal (€17,070).

IPC Returns to Battle of Malta

The €300 Turbo Deepstack was the first Israeli Poker Championship to take place at the Battle of Malta for three years. It attracted a sizable field of 352, resulting in a prize pool that was twelve times bigger than its €10,000 guarantee. This one also resulted in a heads-up deal, with Italian Davide Raschella’ taking the title and €18,345, while German Rami Awad took €17,535 for second place.