Another massive day of poker action went down at Casino Malta on June 1, as the Battle of Malta 2026 Summer Edition continued apace, with the Main Event field reduced to 24 players, four side-event trophies awarded, and the Novibet Cuatro PKO getting underway.

Stavros Passias of Greece (10,760,000) leads Italian duo Angelo Censabella (8,880,000) and Daniele Renzi (7,340,000) heading into the penultimate day of the Main Event, with the huge sum of €176,070 awaiting the champion.

In the side-events, Fabian Wolf of Germany banked the chunky first-place prize of €46,180 in the €1,100 Star Yes High Roller, Michal Krzyminski of Poland took the €300 Bounty Hunter trophy (€4,255) after a heads-up deal with Armins Daugis, while German Sascha Manns locked up the Beer Poker Tour event title (€6,920), and Yamen Ghamen of Israel won the €150 Hyper Turbo (€3,700), again after a heads-up deal. In the Novibet Cuatro PKO, Marius Negrescu of Romania leads 54 qualifiers for the final day, who will return at 3 p.m. on June 2.

Another sumptuous day of poker action awaits, as the €400 Malta Championship and €2,200 Super High Roller take prime position among the side-events offered today.

€600 Main Event Day 3 Recap

Only 75 players returned for the third day of combat, led by Ugnius Vestertas of Lithuania, and with all players having guaranteed a minimum €2,000 payday. The knockouts came thick and fast, with Roar Aspas and Matiss Celmins among those to exit quickly.

Vestertas would ultimately hit the rail in 26th, and by halfway through the day, Censabella had soared to the top of the standings, and was joined by Passias by the conclusion of the flight. Players such as Theodoros Ampelikiotis, Erland Kalstad and Marko Grujic fell towards the end of play.

Florence Mazet (3,375,00) is the last woman standing, while Mark Vella (4,215,000) is the final home hope still in the mix, while there are three Greeks and five Italians represented in the penultimate day.

The full counts of the remaining 24 players are as follows:-

Position	Name	Country	Chips	Blinds
1	Stavros Passias	Greece	10,760,000	107
2	Angelo Censabella	Italy	8,800,000	88
3	Daniele Renzi	Italy	7,345,000	73
4	Luigi D’Alterio	Italy	5,460,000	54
5	Robin Kruhla	Germany	4,975,000	49
6	Marko Cosic	Serbia	4,415,000	44
7	Georgios Papakonstantinou	Greece	4,410,000	44
8	Arnaud Boudet	France	4,380,000	43
9	Joao Da Silva	Portugal	4,230,000	42
10	Tiberiu Florescu	Romania	4,215,000	42
11	Mark Vella	Malta	4,215,000	42
12	Igor Pasierbek	Poland	4,000,000	40
13	Florence Mazet	France	3,735,000	37
14	Gianluca Donini	Italy	3,715,000	37
15	Konstantinos Asgoudakis	Greece	3,240,000	32
16	Rami Amuri	Latvia	2,930,000	29
17	Panteleimon Pontos	Greece	2,920,000	29
18	Gareth Hamilton	Ireland	2,330,000	23
19	Daniel Yerin	Germany	2,080,000	20
20	Tomas Major	Czech Republic	1,965,000	19
21	Sebastian Mortensen	Denmark	1,840,000	18
22	Alejandro Asenjo	Spain	1,550,000	15
23	Danilo Scevola	Italy	1,165,000	11
24	Fredrick Bratein	Norway	800,000	8

 

The players will return at 4 p.m. on June 2 for the penultimate day to blinds of 50,000/100,000 (100,000), with a €5,200 payday guaranteed, and play will continue on a 60-minute clock until the official final table of eight is reached.

The remaining payouts are as follows:-

Position	Prize
1	€176,070
2	€101,910
3	€69,480
4	€52,660
5	€43,900
6	€35,600
7	€27,050
8	€19,350
9	€14,690
10-11	€12,340
12-13	€11,110
14-15	€9,910
16-17	€8,720
18-20	€7,530
21-23	€6,340
24	€5,200

 

The Day 4 seating draw is as follows:-

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips	Blinds
10	1	Tomas Major	Czech Republic	1,965,000	19
10	2	Florence Mazet	France	3,735,000	37
10	3	Rami Amuri	Latvia	2,930,000	29
10	4	Georgios Papakonstantinou	Greece	4,410,000	44
10	5	Konstantinos Asgoudakis	Greece	3,240,000	32
10	6	Arnaud Boudet	France	4,380,000	43
10	7	Sebastian Mortensen	Malta	1,840,000	18
10	8	Mark Vella	Malta	4,215,000	42
13	1	Alejandro Asenjo	Spain	1,550,000	15
13	2	Robin Kruhla	Germany	4,975,000	49
13	3	Fredrick Bratein	Norway	800,000	8
13	4	Marko Cosic	Serbia	4,415,000	44
13	5	Joao Da Silva	Portugal	4,230,000	42
13	6	Angelo Censabella	Italy	8,800,000	88
13	7	Luigi D’Alterio	Italy	5,460,000	54
13	8	Gianluca Donini	Italy	3,715,000	37
14	1	Danilo Scevola	Italy	1,165,000	11
14	2	Daniele Renzi	Italy	7,345,000	73
14	3	Daniel Yerin	Germany	2,080,000	20
14	4	Gareth Hamilton	Ireland	2,330,000	23
14	5	Igor Pasierbek	Poland	4,000,000	40
14	6	Panteleimon Pontos	Greece	2,920,000	29
14	7	Tiberiu Florescu	Romania	4,215,000	42
14	8	Stavros Passias	Greece	10,760,000	107

 

The full results thus far are as follows:-

Place	Name	Country	Prize
25	Ronen Avraham	Israel	€5,200
26	Ugnius Vestertas	Lithuania	€5,200
27	Paolo Di Girolamo	Italy	€5,200
28	Gianmarco Grande	Italy	€4,430
29	Erlend Kalstad	Norway	€4,430
30	Audrius Daugvilavicius	Lithuania	€4,430
31	Karen Kalif	Israel	€4,430
32	Dimitrios Stampoultzis	Greece	€3,680
33	Jorge Geraldes	Portugal	€3,680
34	Marko Grujic	Serbia	€3,680
35	Marian Ciupeiu	Romania	€3,680
36	Theodoros Ampelikiotis	Greece	€3,680
37	Aljosa Kobale	Slovenia	€3,680
38	Robert Baker	United Kingdom	€3,680
39	Andrej Duplancic	Croatia	€3,680
40	Michal Procner	Poland	€3,000
41	Christian Sykora	Austria	€3,000
42	Nico Marraffa	Italy	€3,000
43	Piotr Wasilewski	Poland	€3,000
44	Giuseppe Rosa	Italy	€3,000
45	Dimitrios Sarris	Greece	€3,000
46	Carina Voncken	Netherlands	€3,000
47	Antonino Karman	Italy	€3,000
48	Jiri Novak	Czech Republic	€3,000
49	Houssem Meftahi	Tunisia	€3,000
50	Anthony Ouillon	France	€3,000
51	Mario Fiordelisi	Italy	€3,000
52	Constantin Chincisan	Romania	€3,000
53	Franco Scalise	Italy	€3,000
54	Alessandro Nocerino	Italy	€3,000
55	Damian Wojtas	Poland	€3,000
56	Giorgio Bellanca	Italy	€2,370
57	Mihai-Alin Cismaru	Romania	€2,370
58	Kristian Holmgren	Sweden	€2,370
59	Erik Oestergaard	Denmark	€2,370
60	Idan Nagauker	Israel	€2,370
61	Andrew Cutajar	Malta	€2,370
62	Zonglei Zhao	China	€2,370
63	Szymon Politowski	Poland	€2,370
64	Doron Lahav	Israel	€2,370
65	Laurentiu Avram	Romania	€2,370
68	Dimitrios Asgoudakis	Greece	€2,370
69	Yujun Kim	South Korea	€2,370
70	Evangelos Argyris	Greece	€2,370
71	Ahmet Canatan	Turkey	€2,370
72	Igor Bukowski	Poland	€2,000
73	Roar Aspas	Norway	€2,000
74	Veaceslav Jumir	Moldova	€2,000
75	Giuseppe Milone	Italy	€2,000
76	Liwei Wang	China	€2,000
77	Alessandro Signoriello	Italy	€2,000
78	Junyu Liu	China	€2,000
79	Stefan Ianuszewicz	Poland	€2,000
80	Paulo De Castro Rorigues	Portugal	€2,000
81	Kaspars Mallons	Latvia	€2,000
82	Marco D’amico	Italy	€2,000
83	Aleksandrs Krumins	Latvia	€2,000
84	Fabrizio Zucca	Italy	€2,000
85	Emmanouil Kostakis	Greece	€2,000
86	Armando Picozzi	Italy	€2,000
87	Jaroslaw Falkowski	Poland	€2,000
88	Anargyros Loizos	Greece	€2,000
89	Srdan Milijas	Serbia	€2,000
90	Marcin Majcher	Poland	€2,000
91	Dominik Wochnik	Poland	€2,000
92	Ettore Esposito	Italy	€2,000
93	Erik Polluveer	Estonia	€2,000
94	Jonas Engedal	Norway	€2,000
95	Radoslaw Krosnowski	Poland	€2,000
96	Abraham Berkovitch	Israel	€1,700
97	Dimitrios Zournatzidis	Greece	€1,700
98	Vincenzo Popolo	Italy	€1,700
99	Andreas Leu	Switzerland	€1,700
100	Fausto Gravagna	Italy	€1,700
101	Tomas Hrstka	Czech Republic	€1,700
102	Marius Negrescu	Romania	€1,700
103	Sokratis Oikonomou	Greece	€1,700
104	Francesco Natale	Italy	€1,700
105	Marco Deidda	Italy	€1,700
106	Iosif Botar	Romania	€1,700
107	Itay Barak	Israel	€1,700
108	Maciej Blazejewski	Poland	€1,700
109	Shervin Ghassemlou	Iran	€1,700
110	Maurizio Saieva	Italy	€1,700
111	Antonios Koukouras	Greece	€1,700
112	Sebastian Szychulski	Poland	€1,700
113	Giuseppe Di Bella	Italy	€1,700
114	Anton Makejev	Estonia	€1,700
115	Markus Dahl	Norway	€1,700
116	Enea Subashi	Albania	€1,700
117	Daniele Puccio	Italy	€1,700
118	Alessandro Marongiu	Italy	€1,700
119	Raul Suceava	Romania	€1,700
120	Dimitrios Marmagkiolis	Greece	€1,450
121	Liron Kroani	Israel	€1,450
122	Adrian Ziemichod	Poland	€1,450
123	Robert McAdam	United Kingdom	€1,450
124	Jonathan Therme	France	€1,450
125	Sergio Parrinello	Italy	€1,450
126	Andris Resevskis	Latvia	€1,450
127	Dawid Kocyla	Poland	€1,450
128	Masoud Fatollahy	Iran	€1,450
129	Emmanouil Livanos	Greece	€1,450
130	Gianluca Perino	Italy	€1,450
131	Daniele Solidoro	Italy	€1,450
132	Davide Caramia	Italy	€1,450
133	Vito Pizzitola	Italy	€1,450
134	Salvatore Saracino	Italy	€1,450
135	Maximilian Golle	Germany	€1,450
136	Lorenzo Di Blasi	Italy	€1,450
137	Frederico Hitner	Portugal	€1,450
138	Robert Krzywina	Poland	€1,450
139	Andre Riseng	Norway	€1,450
140	Frank Staecker	Germany	€1,450
141	Onni Huttunen	Finland	€1,450
142	Davide Raschella’	Italy	€1,450
143	Lukasz Sen	Poland	€1,450
144	David Kozma	Hungary	€1,230
145	Vilmos Farkas	Hungary	€1,230
146	Cristiano Zambonelli	Italy	€1,230
147	Carlo Solazzo	Italy	€1,230
148	Fabrizio Pillitteri	Italy	€1,230
149	Hryhorii Meleshenko	Ukraine	€1,230
150	Ziga Klopcic	Slovenia	€1,230
151	Marjan Mitrovski	North Macedonia	€1,230
152	Dariusz Maniecki	Poland	€1,230
153	Alexios Messalas	Greece	€1,230
154	Leon Renmans	Belgium	€1,230
155	Mihai Nistor	Romania	€1,230
156	Nigel Hartwell	United Kingdom	€1,230
157	Marco Zingarelli	Italy	€1,230
158	Oscar Rossi	Italy	€1,230
159	Jakub Chciuk	Poland	€1,230
160	Walter Lotter	Germany	€1,230
161	Nihat Muldur	Turkey	€1,230
162	Pinhas Belezada	Israel	€1,230
163	Stefano Titola	Italy	€1,230
164	Jakub Wujcikowski	Poland	€1,230
165	Rosario Amico	Italy	€1,230
166	Pia Fransson	Sweden	€1,230
167	Hugo Loustau	France	€1,230
168	Andrea Maiolino	Italy	€1,230
169	Dario Barone	Italy	€1,230
170	Oliver Hutchins	United Kingdom	€1,230
171	Simone Facciponti	Italy	€1,230
172	Davide Iannaco	Italy	€1,230
173	Alessandro Cannizzaro	Italy	€1,230
174	Theo Delouche	France	€1,230
175	Caomhan Mclaughlin	Ireland	€1,230
176	Angelo Vietti	Italy	€1,230
177	Renato Messina	Italy	€1,230
178	Daniele Sacchi	Italy	€1,230
179	Luke Tatum	United Kingdom	€1,230
180	Gakuto Horiuchi	Japan	€1,230
181	Ionut Arvatu	Romania	€1,230
182	Abramo Marangio	Italy	€1,230
183	Steven Kirsh	United States	€1,230
184	Jose-Luis Rodriguez	Spain	€1,150
185	Loreto Enea	Italy	€1,150
186	Gabriel Dinu	Romania	€1,150
187	Leandro Cataldo	Italy	€1,150
188	Stefan Wiesebrock	Germany	€1,150
189	Konstantinos Dimadis	Greece	€1,150
190	Vedran Sujkovic	Croatia	€1,150
191	Ariel Reidman	Israel	€1,150
192	Elio Caferro	Italy	€1,150
193	Jean-Pascal Vernet	France	€1,150
194	Cyprian Nosek	Poland	€1,150
195	Grazia Caruso	Italy	€1,150
196	Siim Sakeus	Estonia	€1,150
197	Patryk Szysz	Poland	€1,150
198	Jakub Riska	Czech Republic	€1,150
199	Jonathan Raab	Germany	€1,150
200	Marflene Cricchiola	Italy	€1,150
201	Madis Ormisson	Estonia	€1,150
202	Akser Osak	Poland	€1,150
203	Dario Calabrese	Italy	€1,150
204	David Skoloud	Czech Republic	€1,150
205	David Taborsky	Czech Republic	€1,150
206	Ruggero Magri’	Italy	€1,150
207	Marek Grzeska	Poland	€1,150
208	Cahit Basbug	Turkey	€1,150
209	Aristeidis Aftias	Greece	€1,150
210	Marcello Bona	Italy	€1,150
211	Marian Klitchev	Bulgaria	€1,150
212	Palina Mankevich	Belarus	€1,150
213	Miika Toeyraes	Finland	€1,150
214	Pancrazio Manni	Italy	€1,150
215	Jacek Pustula	Poland	€1,150
216	Sergio Di Ruberto	Italy	€1,150
217	Giovanna Dimartino	Italy	€1,150
218	Christoph Tanner	Switzerland	€1,150
219	Antonio Leanza	Italy	€1,150
220	Abilio Da Silva	Portugal	€1,150
221	Robert Previsic	Croatia	€1,150
222	Oreste Faga	Italy	€1,150
223	Anastasios Vourexakis	Greece	€1,150
224	Mark Deacon	United Kingdom	€1,100
225	Christos Tsamatsoulis	Greece	€1,100
226	Grigorios Archontakis	Greece	€1,100
227	Adam Lawniczak	Poland	€1,100
228	Sebastian Kotowicz	Poland	€1,100
229	Simone Quadrini	Italy	€1,100
230	Jader Pederzini	Italy	€1,100
231	John Kelly	Ireland	€1,100
232	Luka Urosevic	Serbia	€1,100
233	Antoan Katsarov	Bulgaria	€1,100
234	Francesco Tuzzolino	Italy	€1,100
235	Cosimo De Gennaro	Italy	€1,100
236	Daniela Busmachiu-Constantinescu	Romania	€1,100
237	Stanislav Bronshtein	Israel	€1,100
238	Rocco Taglianetti	Italy	€1,100
239	Gennaro Loffredo	Italy	€1,100
240	Carmelo Capizzi	Italy	€1,100
241	Edvinas Gruzdas	Lithuania	€1,100
242	Angelo Ledda	Italy	€1,100
243	Marc Sanz Clausin	Spain	€1,100
244	Nikola Minovic	Montenegro	€1,100
245	Dimitrios Anastasakis	Greece	€1,100
246	Giulio Spampinato	Italy	€1,100
247	Emanuele Amenta	Italy	€1,100
248	Alina Paliahoshka	Belarus	€1,100
249	Daniel Henriques	Portugal	€1,100
250	Biagio Morciano	Italy	€1,100
251	Alexandre Bermon	France	€1,100
252	Ovidiu-Dorin Barna	Romania	€1,100
253	Ionut-Alexandru Toma	Romania	€1,100
254	Alfredo Brancia	Italy	€1,100
255	Joona Nyholm	Finland	€1,100
256	Alberto Petite Alvarez	Spain	€1,100
257	Giuseppe Positano	Italy	€1,100
258	Andy Schink	Germany	€1,100
259	Gabriel Rymar	Poland	€1,100
260	Flaviano Cammisuli	Italy	€1,100
261	Nicolaj D’antoni	Italy	€1,100
262	Leocir Carneiro	Brazil	€1,100
263	Antonio Russello	Italy	€1,100
264	Battista Locati	Italy	€1,050
265	Artur Gjoka	Albania	€1,050
266	Salvatrice D’urso	Italy	€1,050
267	Piero Formichella	Italy	€1,050
268	Alexandru Boboc	Romania	€1,050
269	Sukru Arican	Turkey	€1,050
270	Daniel Gumula	Poland	€1,050
271	Sofiene Bezzah	Tunisia	€1,050
272	Milosz Siedlecki	Poland	€1,050
273	Ivane Khazaradze	Georgia	€1,050
274	Alessandro Fasano	Italy	€1,050
275	Andrea Parisi	Italy	€1,050
276	Julien Stropoli	France	€1,050
277	Sebastiano Foti Belligammi	Italy	€1,050
278	Nigel Stentiford	United Kingdom	€1,050
279	Cristian Mihu	Romania	€1,050
280	Gil Preter	Israel	€1,050
281	Oliver Mihajlovski	North Macedonia	€1,050
282	Andre Haakestad	Norway	€1,050
283	Craig Lauder	United Kingdom	€1,050
284	Marco Maggio	Italy	€1,050
285	Pawel Wakuluk	Poland	€1,050
286	Paulo Pinheiro	Portugal	€1,050
287	Salvatore Anastasio	Italy	€1,050
288	David Williams	United Kingdom	€1,050
289	Nestoras Kakoyiannis	Cyprus	€1,050
290	Luis Marthino	Portugal	€1,050
291	Christou Christos	Cyprus	€1,050
292	Matteo Ferrara	Italy	€1,050
293	Pavel Novikov	Ukraine	€1,050
294	Diego Romei	Italy	€1,050
295	Fouad Chouri	France	€1,050
296	Erik Lindqwist	Sweden	€1,050
297	Mateo Ciglar	Croatia	€1,050
298	Kimi Sipilae	Finland	€1,050
299	Joseph Jouayek	Lebanon	€1,050
300	Antonio Buonanno	Italy	€1,050
301	Nicholas Ramsey	United Kingdom	€1,050
302	Aleksi Heikkinen	Finland	€1,050
303	Giuseppe Ognisanto	Italy	€1,050
304	Andreas Bjerklund	Norway	€1,050
305	Marcin Grudzien	Poland	€1,050
306	Grzegorz Bartold	Poland	€1,050
307	Nicola D’aquaro	Italy	€1,050
308	Vincenzo Mangiapane	Italy	€1,050
309	Valerio Missori	Italy	€1,050
310	Giovanni Caggia	Italy	€1,050
311	Pawan Thaper	India	€1,050
312	Miguel Sanchez Hernandez	Spain	€1,050
313	Riamon Taskinen	Finland	€1,050
314	Ran Shahar	Israel	€1,050
315	Ernestas Stalemekas	Lithuania	€1,050
316	Darius Mandi	Romania	€1,050
317	Giampaolo Puglia	Italy	€1,050
318	Gianfranco Casaluce	Italy	€1,050
319	Dimitar Syarov	Bulgaria	€1,050
320	Nicola Rappazzo	Italy	€1,050
321	Nikolaos Oikonomou	Greece	€1,050
322	Krystian Nalepka	Poland	€1,050
323	Daniele Intilisano	Italy	€1,050
324	Andreas Hartl	Germany	€1,050
325	Lorian-Mihai Bellu	Romania	€1,050
326	Francesco Blasio	Italy	€1,050
327	Kleber Chapon	France	€1,050
328	Philip Pearson	United Kingdom	€1,000
329	Antal Mezei	Hungary	€1,000
330	Samuel Marseiler	Germany	€1,000
331	Cristian Nania	Italy	€1,000
332	Jonatan Samuel	Sweden	€1,000
333	Manuel Maganuco	Italy	€1,000
334	Umberto De Cunto	Italy	€1,000
335	Gianluca Mancuso	Italy	€1,000
336	William Gilbert	United Kingdom	€1,000
337	Itzhak Zenati	Israel	€1,000
338	Francesco Munafo’	Italy	€1,000
339	Arci Mattia	Italy	€1,000
340	Konstantinos Kertikidis	Greece	€1,000
341	Maria Koutsouki	Cyprus	€1,000
342	Florian Dietrich	Germany	€1,000
343	Turgay Akin	Turkey	€1,000
344	Antonio Privitera	Italy	€1,000
345	Hanna Heinlo	Estonia	€1,000
346	Ioannis Koulopoulos	Greece	€1,000
347	Florian Henck	Germany	€1,000
348	Mark McKenzie	United Kingdom	€1,000
349	Antoine Talvard	France	€1,000
350	Jon San Juan Alemany	Spain	€1,000
351	Francesco Della Sala	Italy	€1,000
352	Jaroslaw Chmiel	Poland	€1,000
353	Carmelo Fangano	Italy	€1,000
354	Barak Hen	Israel	€1,000
355	Ozren Cvijanovic	Croatia	€1,000
356	Jacek Goraj	Poland	€1,000
357	Rasmus Lundstroem	Sweden	€1,000
358	Christopher Newton	United Kingdom	€1,000

Fabian Wolf Wins €1,100 Star Yes High Roller (€46,180)

A big field of 232 runners was obtained in the €1,100 Star Yes High Roller, creating a €218,080 prize pool, to be shared between 31 players. Fabian Wolf (€46,180) came out on top after besting compatriot Florian Henck heads-up.

The full results are as follows:-

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1	Fabian Wolf	Germany	€46,180
2	Florian Henck	Germany	€31,050
3	Jakub Szczotka	Poland	€21,900
4	Ioannis Polentas	Greece	€17,750
5	Giuseppe Mazza-Boussemart	Italy	€14,050
6	Federico Donnini	Italy	€10,650
7	Patryk Szysz	Poland	€7,800
8	Akser Osak	Poland	€5,700
9	Christian Di Caprio	Italy	€4,700
10	Joona Nyholm	Finland	€4,000
11	Malcolm McKinlay	United Kingdom	€4,000
12	Gary Fisher	United Kingdom	€3,550
13	Wiktor Marcinkowski	Poland	€3,550
14	Massimo Fata	Italy	€3,250
15	Min Guk Kim	South Korea	€3,250
16	Miika Toeyraes	Finland	€2,900
17	Shervin Ghassemlou	Sweden	€2,900
18	Marcus Chatur	United Kingdom	€2,550
19	Cosme Martinez	Spain	€2,550
20	Matteo Ferrara	Italy	€2,550
21	Alessandro Furneri	Italy	€2,350
22	Grigoris Kyriazi	Greece	€2,350
23	Ricardo Ferreira	Portugal	€2,350
24	Alessandro Assaloni	Italy	€2,150
25	Hugo De La Fouchardiere	France	€2,150
26	Adrian Ziemichod	Poland	€2,150
27	Daniele Sacchi	Italy	€2,150
28	Bachana Shengelia	Georgia	€1,900
29	Simone Pascucci	Italy	€1,900
30	Gabriele Santoro	Italy	€1,900
31	Dario Mancuso	Italy	€1,900

 

€450 Novibet Cuatro PKO Recap

A total of 216 entries created a €38,016 prize pool, with 54 players progressing to Day 2. They are led by Marius Negrescu of Romania (461,000), who is chased by Andrei Piatrushchankaof Belarus (403,000) and Mateo Ciglar of Croatia (400,000).

All players receive a bounty token worth €800 at the start of Day 2, with payouts to be confirmed at the start of play. The counts at the start of the final day, which kicks off at 3 p.m., are as follows:-

Position	Name	Country	Chips
1	Marius Negrescu	Romania	461,000
2	Andrei Piatrushchanka	Belarus	403,000
3	Mateo Ciglar	Croatia	400,000
4	Gabriel Rymar	Poland	325,000
5	Mark McKenzie	United Kingdom	274,000
6	Abramo Marangio	Italy	270,000
7	Sokratis Oikonomou	Greece	267,000
8	Miro Sankala	Finland	243,000
9	Michail Antimisiaris	Greece	237,000
10	Michal Procner	Poland	233,000
11	Hryhorii Meleshenko	Ukraine	232,000
12	Andreas Leu	Switzerland	223,000
13	Nicola Cerini	Italy	204,000
14	Mikkel Sorensen	Denmark	201,000
15	Serhii Ivanenko	Ukraine	198,000
16	Maros Guzej	Slovakia	197,000
17	Milosz Siedlecki	Poland	197,000
18	Anders Berget	Norway	182,000
19	Antonio Giunta	Italy	176,000
20	Edgaras Jankunas	Lithuania	172,000
21	Kimi Sipilae	Finland	168,000
22	Seymour Savelloni	Italy	165,000
23	Leif Kirk	Norway	164,000
24	Itzhak Zenati	Israel	164,000
25	Yarin Matan	Israel	154,000
26	Dimitrios Sarris	Greece	144,000
27	Sergiu Popescu	Romania	138,000
28	Michail Tastanis	Greece	138,000
29	David Jehel	France	132,000
30	Samuel Newsome	United Kingdom	132,000
31	Salvatore Ritrovato	Italy	132,000
32	Miguel Sanchez	Spain	132,000
33	Jeremie Dubois	France	130,000
34	Shachar Zvang	Israel	125,000
35	Artur Gjoka	Albania	115,000
36	Marjan Mitrovski	North Macedonia	110,000
37	Dario Guarnuto	Italy	109,000
38	Enrico Perra	Italy	105,000
39	Antonino Gandolfo	Italy	104,000
40	Angelo Vietti	Italy	99,000
41	Kai Eitz	Germany	86,000
42	Andre Haakestad	Norway	79,000
43	Vidar Solheim	Norway	74,000
44	John Kelly	United Kingdom	72,000
45	Adrian Ziemichod	Poland	71,000
46	Kaspars Mallons	Latvia	70,000
47	Szymon Politowski	Poland	69,000
48	Cahit Basbug	Turkey	59,000
49	Doron Lahav	Israel	52,000
50	Nikolaos Oikonomou	Greece	50,000
51	Roberts Krigers	Latvia	48,000
52	Martinus Dogge	Netherlands	47,000
53	Nemanja Tatar	Serbia	41,000
54	Klavs Garselis	Latvia	21,000

 

Michal Kryzminski Wins €300 Bounty Hunter (€4,255)

A total of 265 entries created a €25,016 prize pool, which was split between the the top 39 players. Lukasz Sajnog was the unfortunate player to bubble, and when the dust settled Michal Kryzminski of Poland was left standing with the trophy, after banking €4,255 after a heads-up deal with Armins Daugis of Latvia (€4,040).

The full results are as follows:-

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1	Michal Krzyminski	Poland	*€4,255
2	Armins Daugis	Latvia	*€4,040
3	Aleksandrs Krumins	Latvia	€2,440
4	Regilio Vrede	Netherlands	€1,960
5	Christian Schneider	Germany	€1,540
6	Lampros Proimos	Greece	€1,160
7	Jens Schmidt	Denmark	€860
8	Peter Brackley	United Kingdom	€640
9	Alessio Langella	Italy	€520
10	Antoine Talvard	France	€440
11	Giovanni Ferrigno	Italy	€440
12	Antoan Katsarov	Bulgaria	€380
13	Tormod Ludvigsen	Norway	€380
14	Adis Sokolovic	Bosnia & Herzegovina	€340
15	Vincenzo Colacitti	Italy	€340
16	Pasquale Nocerino	Italy	€300
17	Paul Skingley	United Kingdom	€300
18	Ivano Tellini	Italy	€280
19	Joaquin Miralles	Spain	€280
20	Giovanna Dimartino	Italy	€280
21	Vasileios Poziadis	Greece	€240
22	Dominik Bencan	Slovakia	€240
23	Francesco Berte	Italy	€240
24	Vincenzo Catalano	Italy	€220
25	Alba Garcia Sarasola	Spain	€220
26	Ugo Gasparini	Italy	€220
27	Giovanni Ruta	Italy	€220
28	Jeremie Dubois	France	€200
29	Felice Bucci	Italy	€200
30	Salvatore Lupica Capra	Italy	€200
31	Arci Mattia	Italy	€200
32	Paul Johnston	United Kingdom	€180
33	Salvatore Anastasio	Italy	€180
34	Charalampos Siakaras	Greece	€180
35	Lorenzo Di Blasi	Italy	€180
36	Benjamin Gerlach	Germany	€180
37	Salvatore Giliberti	Italy	€180
38	Domenico Desimone	Italy	€180
39	Andrew Fleming	United Kingdom	€180

 

*Denotes heads-up deal

Sacha Manns Wins €200 Beer Poker Tour Event (€6,920)

A huge field of 204 runners created a €32,599 prize pool in the Beer Poker Tour Event, with 31 places paid. Sascha Manns went one better after his runner-up finish in the H.O.R.S.E event, securing gold after defeating Maik Herrmann heads-up. Manns also secured a package to the upcoming Beer Poker Tour Event in Bratislava worth €600.

The full results are as follows:-

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1	Sascha Manns	Germany	€6,920
2	Maik Herrmann	Germany	€4,640
3	Onni Huttunen	Finland	€3,270
4	Filippos Kasidokostas	Greece	€2,650
5	Frederico Hitner	Brazil	€2,100
6	Veaceslav Jumir	Moldova	€1,590
7	Itay Barak	Israel	€1,160
8	Charalampos Zogas	Greece	€855
9	Mario Parisi	Italy	€700
10	Gabriella Fabian	Hungary	€600
11	Liron Kroani	Israel	€600
12	Christos Tsamatsoulis	Greece	€530
13	Vincenzo Nicoletti	Italy	€530
14	Claudio Gallina	Italy	€480
15	Giuseppe Rossino	Italy	€480
16	Cyprian Nosek	Poland	€430
17	Gil Preter	Israel	€430
18	Max Eberle	Germany	€380
19	Jonas Lindholm	Sweden	€380
20	Ioannis Daskalis	Greece	€380
21	Lukasz Zalewski	Poland	€350
22	Armin Alic	Bosnia & Herzegovina	€350
23	Nedim Jusupovic	Bosnia & Herzegovina	€350
24	Lisa Greer	United Kingdom	€320
25	Houssem Meftahi	Tunisia	€320
26	Stanislav Genev	Bulgaria	€320
27	Jaroslaw Chmiel	Poland	€320
28	Alina Paliahoshka	Belarus	€290
29	Lorian Bellu	Romania	€290
30	Francesco Caruso	Italy	€290
31	Pavel Budovic	Slovakia	€290

Yamen Ghamen Wins €150 Hyper Turbo (€3,700)

The final side event of the day drew 146 entries, creating a €17,841 prize pool, to be split among the top 20 finishers. Yamen Ghamen of Israel (€3,700) and Dominik Bencan of Croatia (€3,480) did a deal heads-up, with Ghamen taking the trophy.

The full results are as follows:-

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1	Yamen Ghanem	Germany	*€3,700
2	Dominik Bencan	Slovakia	*€3,480
3	Ziga Klopcic	Slovenia	€1,930
4	Filipe Martins	Portugal	€1,590
5	Yoann Rosa	France	€1,280
6	Adam Wojcieszak	Poland	€1,000
7	Claudio Pucci	Italy	€750
8	Elena Croitoru	Romania	€540
9	Miroslav Molan	Slovenia	€420
10	Glenn Brown	United Kingdom	€360
11	Benoit Kuhn	France	€360
12	Abilio Da Silva	Portugal	€320
13	Nikolaos Belivanis	Greece	€320
14	Grzegorz Bartold	Poland	€290
15	James Grogan	United Kingdom	€290
16	Davide Ferraro	Italy	€260
17	Christopher Newton	United Kingdom	€260
18	Stefano Coletta	Italy	€230
19	Nicola Dilluvio	Italy	€230
20	Jelle De Kroon	Netherlands	€230

 

*Denotes heads-up deal

Battle of Malta 2026 Summer Edition Schedule – June 2 2026

Another massive day of tournament poker lies ahead as the penultimate day of the festival arrives. Apart from Day 4 of the Main Event, the main attractions are the €400 Malta Championship, and the two-day €2,200 Super High Roller, while the €450 Novibet Cuatro PKO will play to a winner.

Date	Time	Tournament	Buy-In	Stack	Levels	Late Registration
June 2	14:00	Malta Championship	€360+€40	50,000	15 min	Reg closes at Level 10
June 2	15:00	Novibet Cuatro PKO (Day 2)	—	—	30 min
June 2	16:00	NLH BOM Let The Battle Begin – Day 4 (24 left)	—	—	60 min
June 2	17:00	Casino Malta Super High Roller	€2000+€200	70,000	40 min	Reg closes at Level 10
June 2	18:00	PLO 4-Card	€220+€30	20,000	20 min	Reg closes at Level 8
June 2	20:00	WSOP-C Malta Satellite (Main Event)	€150+€20	10,000	20 min	Reg closes at Level 10

 

We will be live on the tournament floor from 4 p.m., but general updates will be provided in the interim. In the meantime, check out The Battle of Malta’s YouTube, Facebook and Instagram channels to catch up on all the big moments of the event thus far.