Holmgren Leads into Day 3 of Battle of Malta Summer Edition Main Event as Weiner Wins Second PLO Trophy 1 Jun 10:29 by Richard Hayes

Wiktor Weiner

 

It was another fast and furious day of poker action at Casino Malta on May 31, as the Battle of Malta 2026 Summer Edition completed its final weekend. After the conclusion of the final flight of the €600 Main Event, the prize pool was finalized at €1,186,962, with €176,070 awaiting the champion, and the field was then reduced to 75 players after the conclusion of Day 2.

Kristian Holmgren of Norway (3,760,000) leads from Greek duo, Dimitrios Stampoultzis (3,450,000) and Konstantinos Asgoudakis (3,050,000), with the players returning today, June 1, at 4 p.m. for Day 3.

In the other action, Wiktor Weiner of Poland proved himself to be a four-card master, as he secured his second PLO trophy of the week in the €250 PLO 4/5 card, after his earlier victory in the €250 PLO Masters (4,5,6 card), while David Elliot of the United Kingdom emerged as the last player standing in the €200 Casino Malta PokerHouse NLH.

Another Brit, Peter Brackley, took the end of Day 1 chip lead in the €300 NLH Bounty event, while the €1,100 Star Yes High Roller completed its sole opening flight. Offering a huge €200,000 guarantee, Krenar Dervishi of Albania (236,250) leads 68 qualifiers for Day 2, with late registration open for two further one-hour levels at the start of play.

Another massive sheet of tournaments is on the slate today, as Day 2’s of the High Roller and €300 Bounty Hunter take place, while the Beer Poker Tour and Novibet Cuatro PKO events kick off.

€600 Main Event Recap

Sebastian Mortensen

After the completion of the final flight, it transpired the Main Event had attracted a huge total of 2,667 entries, pushing the prize pool well over the seven-figure mark. It was confirmed the life-changing sum of €176,070 awaits the champion, and 358 Day 2 qualifiers were at the start line, led by Ugnius Vestertas of Lithuania.

After the completion of six one-hour levels, the field was reduced to 75 hopefuls, with Holmgren, Stampoultzis and Asgoudakis comprising the podium places. Players such as Rasmus Lundstroem, Florian Henck and Hanna Heinlo suffered an early exit, while Aleksandrs Krumins, Jaroslaw Falkowski and Junyu Liu fell at the end of play. Defending champion Adrian Ziemichod and former champion Dario Barone both failed to make the Day 3 cut.

Quality players in the mix include Vestertas (2,120,000), Czech Tomas Major (1,380,0000), Dane Sebastian Mortensen (1,090,000) and Latvian Matiss Celmins (815,000).

The counts of the remaining players are as follows:-

Position Name Country Chip Count Blinds
1 Kristian Holmgren Norway 3,760,000 94
2 Dimitrios Stampoultzis Greece 3,450,000 86
3 Konstantinos Asgoudakis Greece 3,050,000 76
4 Erlend Kalstad Norway 2,840,000 71
5 Angelo Censabella Italy 2,580,000 64
6 Daniele Renzi Italy 2,310,000 57
7 Mark Vella Malta 2,310,000 57
8 Fredrick Bratein Norway 2,230,000 55
9 Ugnius Vestertas Lithuania 2,120,000 53
10 Jiri Novak Czech Republic 2,060,000 51
11 Constantin Chincisan Romania 2,000,000 50
12 Stavros Passias Greece 1,930,000 48
13 Igor Pasierbek Poland 1,870,000 46
14 Audrius Daugvilavicius Lithuania 1,740,000 43
15 Georgios Papakonstantinou Greece 1,740,000 43
16 Antonino Karman Hungary 1,720,000 43
17 Giuseppe Rosa Italy 1,610,000 40
18 Luigi D’alterio Italy 1,580,000 39
19 Gianluca Donini Italy 1,580,000 39
20 Paolo Di Girolamo Italy 1,570,000 39
21 Michal Procner Poland 1,570,000 39
22 Dimitrios Asgoudakis Greece 1,500,000 37
23 Daniel Yerin Germany 1,490,000 37
24 Ahmet Canatan Turkey 1,480,000 37
25 Christian Sykora Austria 1,450,000 36
26 Tomas Major Czech Republic 1,380,000 34
27 Joao Da Silva Portugal 1,360,000 34
28 Erik Oestergaard Denmark 1,350,000 33
29 Doron Lahav Israel 1,320,000 33
30 Anthony Ouillon France 1,310,000 32
31 Karen Kalif Israel 1,280,000 32
32 Mario Fiordelisi Italy 1,260,000 31
33 Gianmarco Grande Italy 1,250,000 31
34 Mihai Cismaru Romania 1,200,000 30
35 Dimitrios Sarris Greece 1,190,000 29
36 Houssem Meftahi Tunisia 1,180,000 29
37 Evangelos Argyris Greece 1,160,000 29
38 Giorgio Bellanca Italy 1,140,000 28
39 Robin Kruhai Netherlands 1,130,000 28
40 Jorge Geraldes Germany 1,110,000 27
41 Arnaud Boudet France 1,110,000 27
42 Alejandro Asenjo Spain 1,100,000 27
43 Sebastian Mortensen Malta 1,090,000 27
44 Florence Mazet France 1,030,000 25
45 Zonglei Zhao China 1,020,000 25
46 Rami Amuri Latvia 1,010,000 25
47 Danilo Scevola Italy 965,000 24
48 Igor Bukowski Poland 945,000 23
49 Marko Cosic Serbia 910,000 22
50 Gareth Hamilton England 875,000 21
51 Tiberiu Florescu Romania 860,000 21
52 Matiss Celmins Latvia 815,000 20
53 Marian Ciupeiu Romania 765,000 19
54 Andrew Cutajar Malta 740,000 18
55 Idan Nagauker Israel 730,000 18
56 Aljosa Kobale Slovenia 725,000 18
57 Ronen Avraham Israel 700,000 17
58 Damian Wojtas Poland 700,000 17
59 Piotr Wasilewski Poland 695,000 17
60 Veaceslav Jumir Moldova 685,000 17
61 Carina Voncken Netherlands 685,000 17
62 Giuseppe Milone Italy 645,000 16
63 Nico Marraffa Italy 640,000 16
64 Theodoros Ampelikiotis Greece 635,000 15
65 Robert Baker England 625,000 15
66 Marko Grujic Serbia 600,000 15
67 Laurentiu Avram Romania 575,000 14
68 Yujun Kim South Korea 555,000 13
69 Franco Scalise Italy 510,000 12
70 Panteleimon Pontos Greece 480,000 12
71 Alessandro Nocerino Italy 445,000 11
72 Daniele Maldonato Italy 310,000 7
73 Roar Aspas Norway 275,000 6
74 Andrej Duplancic Croatia 265,000 6
75 Szymon Politowski Poland 66,000 1

 

The Day 3 seating draw is below:-

Table Seat Name Country Chips Blinds
5 1 Fredrick Bratein Norway 2,230,000 55
5 2 Jiri Novak Czech Republic 2,060,000 51
5 3 Kristian Holmgren Norway 3,760,000 94
5 4 Stavros Passias Greece 1,930,000 48
5 5 Veaceslav Jumir Moldova 685,000 17
5 6 Ugnius Vestertas Lithuania 2,125,000 53
5 7 Alejandro Asenjo Spain 1,100,000 27
5 8 Michal Procner Poland 1,575,000 39
6 1 Angelo Censabella Italy 2,585,000 64
6 2 Giuseppe Rosa Italy 1,610,000 40
6 3 Evangelos Argyris Greece 1,165,000 29
6 4 Rami Amuri Latvia 1,010,000 25
6 6 Giorgio Bellanca Italy 1,150,000 28
6 7 Igor Pasierbek Poland 1,875,000 46
6 8 Roar Aspas Norway 275,000 6
7 1 Tiberiu Florescu Romania 860,000 21
7 3 Daniele Renzi Italy 2,320,000 58
7 4 Tomas Major Czech Republic 1,380,000 34
7 5 Gareth Hamilton Ireland 875,000 21
7 6 Yujun Kim South Korea 555,000 13
7 7 Zonglei Zhao China 1,025,000 25
7 8 Dimitrios Asgoudakis Greece 1,500,000 37
8 1 Giuseppe Milone Italy 645,000 16
8 2 Franco Scalise Luxembourg 510,000 12
8 3 Carina Voncken Netherlands 685,000 17
8 5 Mihai Cismaru Romania 1,205,000 30
8 6 Piotr Wasilewski Poland 695,000 17
8 7 Erlend Kalstad Norway 2,840,000 71
8 8 Alessandro Nocerino Italy 445,000 11
9 1 Karen Kalif Israel 1,280,000 32
9 2 Robin Kruhai Germany 1,140,000 28
9 3 Ronen Avraham Israel 700,000 17
9 4 Andrej Duplancic Croatia 265,000 6
9 5 Joao Da Silva Portugal 1,365,000 34
9 6 Szymon Politowski Poland 66,000 1
9 7 Antonino Karman Hungary 1,725,000 43
10 2 Florence Mazet France 1,030,000 25
10 3 Marko Grujic Serbia 600,000 15
10 4 Anthony Ouillon France 1,310,000 32
10 5 Konstantinos Asgoudakis Greece 3,055,000 76
10 6 Arnaud Boudet France 1,110,000 27
10 7 Nico Marraffa Italy 640,000 16
10 8 Matiss Celmins Latvia 815,000 20
12 1 Georgios Papakonstantinou Greece 1,740,000 43
12 2 Doron Lahav Israel 1,320,000 33
12 3 Paolo Di Girolamo Italy 1,575,000 39
12 4 Constantin Chincisan Romania 2,000,000 50
12 5 Gianluca Donini Italy 1,580,000 39
12 6 Dimitrios Sarris Greece 1,190,000 29
12 7 Danilo Scevola Italy 965,000 24
12 8 Luigi D’alterio Italy 1,580,000 39
13 1 Daniele Maldonato Italy 310,000 7
13 2 Audrius Daugvilavicius Lithuania 1,740,000 43
13 3 Sebastian Mortensen Malta 1,090,000 27
13 4 Robert Baker England 625,000 15
13 5 Christian Sykora Austria 1,450,000 36
13 6 Theodoros Ampelikiotis Greece 635,000 15
13 7 Houssem Meftahi Tunisia 1,180,000 29
13 8 Marko Cosic Serbia 910,000 22
14 1 Dimitrios Stampoultzis Greece 3,455,000 86
14 2 Ahmet Canatan Turkey 1,480,000 37
14 3 Gianmarco Grande Italy 1,255,000 31
14 4 Idan Nagauker Israel 730,000 18
14 5 Marian Ciupeiu Romania 765,000 19
14 6 Aljosa Kobale Malta 725,000 18
14 7 Mark Vella Malta 2,310,000 57
14 8 Igor Bukowski Poland 945,000 23
15 1 Damian Wojtas Poland 700,000 17
15 2 Andrew Cutajar Malta 740,000 18
15 3 Daniel Yerin Germany 1,490,000 37
15 4 Mario Fiordelisi Italy 1,266,000 31
15 5 Erik Oestergaard Denmark 1,350,000 33
15 6 Laurentiu Avram Romania 575,000 14
15 7 Jorge Geraldes Germany 1,110,000 27
15 8 Panteleimon Pontos Greece 480,000 12

 

The players will return at 4 p.m. for Day 3, where play will continue with 60-minute levels until the field is reduced to 24 players. The remaining payouts the players are competing for are as follows, with all players having secured a guaranteed €2,000 payday :-

Position Payout
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 €111,10
14-15 €9,910
16-17 €8,720
18-20 €7,530
21-23 €6,340
24-27 €5,200
28-31 €4,430
32-39 €3,680
40-55 €3,000
56-71 €2,370
72-75 €2,000

€1,100 Star Yes High Roller Day 1 Recap

The €200,000 guaranteed, €1,100 buy-in tournament completed its sole starting flight, with 68 players qualifying from 130 entries, led by Dervishi, Austrian Alessandro Assaloni (227,800) and Cypriot Michael Angelos (225,000).

Late registration remains open until the start of Level 13, with ten levels completed in Day 1, and players will receive a 50,000 starting stack at blind level 600/1,200/1,200, with the clock set to 30-minute levels.

The full end of Day 1 counts are below:-

Position Name Country Chips Blinds
1 Krenar Dervishi Albania 236,250 196
2 Alessandro Assaloni Italy 227,800 189
3 Michael Angelos Greece 225,000 187
4 Jonas Lapinskas Lithuania 216,600 180
5 Hugo De La Fouchardiere France 212,300 176
6 Krystian Nalepka Poland 207,200 172
7 Ioannis Polentas Greece 200,300 166
8 Daniele Sacchi Italy 164,000 136
9 Umberto De Cunto Italy 158,300 131
10 Jon San Juan Alemany Spain 157,500 131
11 Grigoris Kyriazi Greece 154,690 128
12 Bachana Shengelia Georgia 154,000 128
13 Akser Osak Poland 147,690 123
14 Simone Pascucci Italy 140,400 117
15 Fabian Wolf Germany 138,600 115
16 Erik Lindqwist Sweden 137,190 114
17 Emmanouil Asgoudakis Greece 136,690 113
18 Ran Shahar Israel 128,000 106
19 Federico Fulciniti Italy 123,400 102
20 Gary Mcgaffney Ireland 123,100 102
21 Vikram Digpal India 116,000 96
22 Malcolm Mckinlay Scotland 115,200 96
23 Malo Latinois France 107,400 89
24 Joona Nyholm Finland 106,100 88
25 Jamie Harding England 104,300 86
26 Gary Fisher England 100,100 83
27 Yoann Silva Rosa France 99,700 83
28 Philip Pearson England 99,500 82
29 Simone D’amico Italy 98,600 82
30 Massimo Fata Italy 98,400 82
31 Flaviano Cammisuli Italy 97,000 80
32 Shaul Weinstein Israel 91,200 76
33 Yamen Ghanem Lebanon 88,300 73
34 Ivane Khazaradze Georgia 85,700 71
35 Davide Caramia Italy 79,800 66
36 Pawel Dudnik Poland 73,900 61
37 Marc Clausin France 72,000 60
38 Fotios Ntamaris Greece 69,000 57
39 Erik Polluveer Estonia 68,100 56
40 Matteo Ferrara Italy 66,100 55
41 Masoud Fatollahy Iran 65,700 54
42 Stanislav Bronshtein Ukraine 64,700 53
43 Giuliano Puggioni Italy 63,700 53
44 Sebastian Kotowicz Poland 60,900 50
45 Yoram Atlan Israel 55,600 46
46 Simone Quadrini Italy 52,300 43
47 Min Guk Kim South Korea 52,100 43
48 Clive Micallef Malta 51,900 43
49 Luigi Pignataro Italy 50,600 42
50 Sukru Arican Turkey 50,000 41
51 Dominik Cybulski Poland 50,000 41
52 Vincenzo Mangiapane Italy 50,000 41
53 Adrian Ziemichod Poland 50,000 41
54 Marcus Chatur England 49,200 41
55 Mark Deacon England 48,300 40
56 Shervin Ghassemlou Iran 47,000 39
57 Abramo Marangio Italy 45,600 38
58 Mattia Gentile Italy 42,800 35
59 Ricardo Ferreira Portugal 42,500 35
60 Alkan Aydingoez Turkey 41,200 34
61 Federico Donnini Italy 41,200 34
62 Piermaria Ferrante Italy 40,800 34
63 Kyrylo Dzyha Ukraine 38,900 32
64 Shaun Decesare Malta 37,500 31
65 Achim Eisenbeis Germany 29,500 24
66 Mergim Sulaj Kosovo 27,800 23
67 Gabriele Santoro Italy 26,000 21
68 Grigorios Archontakis Greece 14,700 12

 

€300 Bounty Hunter Day 1 Recap

Dominik Bencan

Peter Brackley (357,000) leads 70 Day 2 qualifiers after ten Day 1 levels, with 221 entries creating a current prize pool of €20,862, and Felice Bucci of Italy (334,000) and Croat Dominik Bencan (281,000), who pulled a €10,000 bounty in the Siege of Malta, leading the chasing pack.

Late registration remains open until the start of Level 13, with players receiving a 30,000 starting stack, and a 30-minute clock in play. The full counts are as follows:-

Position Name Country Chips Blinds
1 Peter Brackley England 357,000 119
2 Felice Bucci Italy 334,000 111
3 Dominik Bencan Czech Republic 281,000 93
4 Andrew Fleming England 207,000 69
5 Antoine Talvard France 192,000 64
6 Frederik Genzel Germany 186,000 62
7 Antoni Dzhelaliev Bulgaria 158,000 52
8 Fabian Wolf Germany 158,000 52
9 Salvatore Cristiano Italy 156,500 52
10 Regilio Vrede Netherlands 156,500 52
11 Tormod Ludvigsen Norway 155,500 51
12 Domenico Desimone Italy 154,000 51
13 Christian Schneider Germany 144,500 48
14 Antonio Parrella Italy 130,000 43
15 Jens Schmidt Denmark 129,500 43
16 Benjamin Gerlach Germany 128,000 42
17 Ricardo De Abreu Portugal 126,000 42
18 Paul Skingley England 121,000 40
19 Barak Hen Israel 118,000 39
20 Serhii Ivanenko Ukraine 116,500 38
21 Michal Krzyminski Poland 114,000 38
22 Arci Mattia Italy 109,000 36
23 Majid Rostami Iran 106,500 35
24 Lukasz Sajnog Poland 104,500 34
25 Ivano Tellini Italy 103,000 34
26 Paul Johnston England 99,500 33
27 Oiva Laitinen Finland 99,000 33
28 Armins Daugis Latvia 98,500 32
29 Jeremie Dubois France 93,000 31
30 Goran Salinovic Croatia 92,500 30
31 Massimo Bernardi Italy 89,000 29
32 Lampros Proimos Greece 89,000 29
33 Alexander Soroka Ukraine 82,500 27
34 Charalampos Siakaras Greece 79,000 26
35 Pasquale Varano Italy 78,500 26
36 Salvatore Anastasio Italy 77,500 25
37 Alessio Langella Italy 77,500 25
38 Gennaro Montuori Italy 74,500 24
39 Matthew Madanat Malta 72,000 24
40 Nicola Diana Italy 69,000 23
41 Sturla Dyregrov Norway 68,000 22
42 Brian Caffrey Ireland 64,500 21
43 Tobias Benes Germany 64,000 21
44 Danny Strange England 63,000 21
45 Vincenzo Colacitti Italy 62,500 20
46 Adis Sokolovic Bosnia and Herzegovina 61,500 20
47 Vidar Solheim Norway 58,000 19
48 Michal Modrzejewski Poland 57,500 19
49 Jerome Martin France 54,500 18
50 Michel Glink Germany 48,000 16
51 Max Van Den Hurk Netherlands 48,000 16
52 Giovanna Dimartino Italy 46,500 15
53 Ohad Shamian Israel 42,000 14
54 David Duggan England 41,500 13
55 Salvatore Capra Italy 41,000 13
56 Alba Sarasola Spain 40,000 13
57 Giovanni Ferrigno Italy 39,500 13
58 Max Crespo Spain 37,000 12
59 Aleksandrs Golubevs Latvia 37,000 12
60 Nicola Dilluvio Italy 35,000 11
61 Gil Preter Israel 33,000 11
62 Turgay Akin Turkey 32,500 10
63 Mergim Sulaj Kosovo 30,000 10
64 Claudio Di Lorenzo Italy 27,000 9
65 Alexandru Boboc Romania 23,000 7
66 Andrii Khatsevych Ukraine 22,000 7
67 John Persen Norway 20,500 6
68 Giovanni Ruta Italy 19,500 6
69 Francesco Berte Italy 15,000 5
70 Dimitrios Tsouvalis Greece 12,000 4

 

Wiktor Weiner Claims Second PLO Trophy of Week in €250 PLO 4/5 Card (€4,530)

Wiktor Weiner

Wiktor Weiner of Poland has had quite the week so far, as he bested 76 runners in the PLO 4/5 card to bank €4,530, securing his second PLO trophy of the festival, after he also tasted victory in the PLO Masters at the start of the festival.

Weiner defeated Itzhak Zenati of Portugal heads-up, while Andreas Vlachos of Greece was in bronze. The full results are as follows:-

Place Name Country Prize
1 Wiktor Weiner Poland €4,530
2 Itzhak Zenati Israel €3,210
3 Andreas Vlachos Greece €2,100
4 Yarin Matan Israel €1,620
5 Aristeidis Markantonakis Greece €1,280
6 Jimmy Grenander Sweden €1,000
7 Gianluca Trancanella Italy €705
8 Patrick Lebenbauer Austria €705
9 Jan Wojtkielewicz Poland €460
10 Joseph Sweeney Ireland €410
11 Antoni Dzhelaliev Bulgaria €410

David Elliot Wins €200 NLH Casino Malta PokerHouse (€4,670)

David Elliott

A 146-runner field created a €23,331 prize pool, and Brit David Elliot came out on top, defeating Stanislav Genev heads-up. The top 20 players split the prize pool, with the details as follows:-

Place Name Country Prize
1 David Elliott England €4,670
2 Stanislav Genev Bulgaria €3,700
3 Alan Plavljanic Croatia €3,550
4 Naor Slotzky Israel €2,070
5 Mindaugas Satkauskas Lithuania €1,670
6 James Walker England €1,310
7 Marco Bartolini Italy €980
8 Yena Park South Korea €720
9 Christos Neofytou Cyprus €540
10 Giuseppe Di Marco Italy €470
11 Dino Borovina Croatia €470
12 Aleksandro Todorovski North Macedonia €420
13 William Oestroem Sweden €420
14 Masut Tugluk Yibulayin Turkey €380
15 Milos Stojkovic Serbia €380
16 Mark Berman USA €340
17 Gabriele Santoro Italy €340
18 Joao Sobral Portugal €300
19 Miro Sankala Finland €300
20 Jens Schmidt Denmark €300

 

Battle of Malta 2026 Summer Edition Schedule – June 1 2026

Another huge day of events lies in store, with the Beer Poker Tour and Novibet Cuatro PKO tournaments the primary attractions in terms of side-events, while the €300 Bounty Hunter and €1,100 High Roller will play down to a winner.

The full schedule is below:-

Date Time Tournament Buy-In Stack Levels Late Registration
June 1 13:00 NLH Star Yes High Roller Final Day €1000+€100 50,000 30 min Reg closes at Level 12
June 1 14:00 netwin NLH Side Event Bounty €110+€150+€40 30,000 30 min Reg closes at Level 12
June 1 16:00 Beer Poker Tour NLH (BPT Bratislava Package + Drinks in the Pot) €170+€30 30,000 20 min Reg closes at Level 10
June 1 16:00 NLH BOM Let The Battle Begin – Day 3 — — 60 min
June 1 17:00 Road to Battle of Slovakia Satellite €40+€10 20,000 20 min Reg closes at Level 10
June 1 18:00 Novibet Cuatro PKO Day 1 €200+€200+€50 40,000 30 min Reg closes at end of Level 11
June 1 21:00 Hyper Turbo €130+€20 15,000 10 min Reg closes at Level 10

 

Our coverage will start in earnest from 4 p.m., and The Battle of Malta’s YouTube, Facebook and Instagram channels will also be bringing you all the big moments from the event, so stay tuned for all your coverage as we see who can remain in the hunt for Main Event glory, and who takes the High Roller and Bounty Hunter crowns.

€600 Main Event Day 3 Chip Counts 1 Jun 01:24 by Christoffer
Position Player Country Chips Big Blinds
1 Kristian Holmgren Norway 3,760,000 94
2 Dimitrios Stampoultzis Greece 3,455,000 86
3 Konstantinos Asgoudakis Greece 3,055,000 76
4 Erlend Kalstad Norway 2,840,000 71
5 Angelo Censabella Italy 2,585,000 65
6 Daniele Renzi Italy 2,320,000 58
7 Mark Vella Malta 2,310,000 58
8 Fredrick Bratein Norway 2,230,000 56
9 Ugnius Vestertas Lithuania 2,125,000 53
10 Jiri Novak Czech Republic 2,060,000 52
11 Constantin Chincisan Romania 2,000,000 50
12 Stavros Passias Greece 1,930,000 48
13 Igor Pasierbek Poland 1,875,000 47
14 Audrius Daugvilavicius Lithuania 1,740,000 44
15 Georgios Papakonstantinou Greece 1,740,000 44
16 Antonino Karman Hungary 1,725,000 43
17 Giuseppe Rosa Italy 1,610,000 40
18 Luigi D’alterio Italy 1,580,000 40
19 Gianluca Donini Italy 1,580,000 40
20 Paolo Di Girolamo Italy 1,575,000 39
21 Michal Procner Poland 1,575,000 39
22 Dimitrios Asgoudakis Greece 1,500,000 38
23 Daniel Yerin Germany 1,490,000 37
24 Benyamin Canatan 1,480,000 37
25 Christian Sykora Austria 1,450,000 36
26 Tomas Major Czech Republic 1,380,000 35
27 Joao Da Silva Portugal 1,365,000 34
28 Erik Oestergaard Denmark 1,350,000 34
29 Doron Lahav Israel 1,320,000 33
30 Anthony Ouillon France 1,310,000 33
31 Karen Kalif Israel 1,280,000 32
32 Mario Fiordelisi Italy 1,266,000 32
33 Gianmarco Grande Italy 1,255,000 31
34 Mihai-Alin Cismaru Romania 1,205,000 30
35 Dimitrios Sarris Greece 1,190,000 30
36 Houssem Meftahi Tunisia 1,180,000 30
37 Evangelos Argyris Greece 1,165,000 29
38 Giorgio Bellanca Italy 1,150,000 29
39 Robin Kruhai Germany 1,140,000 29
40 Jorge Geraldes Germany 1,110,000 28
41 Arnaud Boudet France 1,110,000 28
42 Alejandro Asenjo Spain 1,100,000 28
43 Sebastian Mortensen Malta 1,090,000 27
44 Florence Mazet France 1,030,000 26
45 Zonglei Zhao China 1,025,000 26
46 Rami Amuri Latvia 1,010,000 25
47 Danilo Scevola Italy 965,000 24
48 Igor Bukowski Poland 945,000 24
49 Marko Cosic Serbia 910,000 23
50 Gareth Hamilton Ireland 875,000 22
51 Tiberiu Florescu Romania 860,000 22
52 Matiss Celmins Latvia 815,000 20
53 Marian Ciupeiu Romania 765,000 19
54 Andrew Cutajar Malta 740,000 19
55 Idan Nagauker Israel 730,000 18
56 Aljosa Kobale Malta 725,000 18
57 Ronen Avraham Israel 700,000 18
58 Damian Wojtas Poland 700,000 18
59 Piotr Wasilewski Poland 695,000 17
60 Veaceslav Jumir Moldova 685,000 17
61 Carina Voncken Netherlands 685,000 17
62 Giuseppe Milone Italy 645,000 16
63 Nico Marraffa Italy 640,000 16
64 Theodoros Ampelikiotis Greece 635,000 16
65 Robert Baker England 625,000 16
66 Marko Grujic Serbia 600,000 15
67 Laurentiu Avram Romania 575,000 14
68 Yujun Kim 555,000 14
69 Franco Scalise Luxembourg 510,000 13
70 Panteleimon Pontos Greece 480,000 12
71 Alessandro Nocerino Italy 445,000 11
72 Daniele Maldonato Italy 310,000 8
73 Roar Aspas Norway 275,000 7
74 Andrej Duplancic 265,000 7
75 Szymon Politowski Poland 66,000 2
Day 2 Comes to an End 1 Jun 01:08 by Christoffer

€600 Main Main Event Day 2
Level 24: 15,000/30,000 (30,000)
Entries: 75/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Day 24 has concluded, and the remaining 75 players are now all bagging their chips. Hopefully, they’ll make the sensible decision and get a decent night’s sleep; they’ll take their seats again tomorrow, June 1, at 16:00, and pick up the fight for the title and the €176,070 first-place payout. The blinds will be 20,000/40,000 then (with a 40,000 Ante, of course).

That wraps up today’s live coverage; thanks to everyone who’s been following along with the action. The chip counts will be uploaded as soon as possible.

 

Censabella Wins Ridicolously Big Pot 1 Jun 00:48 by Christoffer

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 24: 15,000/30,000 (30,000)
Entries: 81/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Seated in the Hi-jack, Angelo Censabella opened to 75,000. Szymon Politowski raised to 270,000 from the Big Blind, and Censabella made the call.

Politowski continued on the 5♣4♣5♠ flop with a 190,000 bet, and Censabella made the call. Politowski sized up to 375,000 on the 3♣ turn, and Censabella responded by going all in for 1,230,000. After receiving the count and relieving a heavy sigh, Politowski made the call.

Angelo Censabella: T♣8♣
Szymon Politowski: K♣K♦

“Wow,” Politowski whispered as he saw his opponent’s holdings. The 9♦ didn’t see Politowski improve, and Censabella won what has to be one of the biggest pot of the tournament this far.

Angelo Censabella: 3,425,000
Szymon Politowski: 350,000

Canatan Leads the Field 1 Jun 00:20 by Christoffer

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 24: 15,000/30,000 (30,000)
Entries: 89/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

The last 60-minute level of the day has kicked off. Denmark’s Benyamin Canatan is the current chip leader with 3,600,000. There are a few more stacks around the three-million mark.

Go Fish 1 Jun 00:01 by Christoffer

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 23: 10,000/25,000 (25,000)
Entries: 95/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Florence Mazet opened to 50,000 UTG. Veaceslav Jumir shoved 300,000 from the Cut-off, and Dimitrios Zournatzidis immediately committed his 290,000 stack to make the call on the Button. Mazet ultimately decided to get out of the way, and the two contestants tabled their holdings.

Veaceslav Jumir: J♦J♠
Dimitrios Zournatzidis: A♣Q♣

It was a classic coin flip confrontation, and the K♣6♥7♥3♥T♥ board secured the fishhooks the win. As such, Zournatzidis was eliminated.

Veaceslav Jumir: 720,000
Dimitrios Zournatzidis: 0

Hrtska Bids Farewell 31 May 23:45 by Christoffer

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 23: 10,000/25,000 (25,000)
Entries: 98/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Christian Sykora opened to 55,000 from the Hi-jack. Tomas Hrtska (Small Blind) and Day 1c chip leader Florence Mazet (Big Blind) both made the call.

All three players checked the Q♥Q♦5♣ flop. Action was checked to Sykora on the K♦ turn, and he bet 50,000. Hrtska then fancied a 150,000 raise; Mazet folded before Sykora made the call.

“I’m all in,” Hrtska proudly announced on the 4♣ river. Sykora wasted no time before making the call.

Thomas Hrtska: A♣J♠
Christian Sykora: Q♠T♠

Bluff gone wrong for Hrtska, and his tournament life came to an end.

Christian Sykora: 2,100,000
Thomas Hrtska: 0

Pasierbek Produces a Miracle 31 May 23:28 by Christoffer

Thomas Hrstka

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 23: 10,000/25,000 (25,000)
Entries: 105/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Action folded to Igor Pasierbek, who moved all in for 440,000 from the Small Blind. Tomas Hrstka (Big Blind) turned over his cards one at a time for his opponents to see if he was to make the call. It turned out to be an easy decision; Hrstka flicked in one chip.

Igor Pasierbek: A♦2♥
Tomas Hrstka: A♣K♥

The animated Hrstka was trying to get the whole room to root for his big-slick. He maintained his solid lead on the 9♦4♦6♠, but he was left speechless as Pasierbek improved to a runner-runner straight thanks to 3♣5♦. His tournament life has been extended.

Igor Pasierbek: 905,000
Tomas Hrstka: 580,000

More Players to Hit the Rail 31 May 23:10 by Christoffer

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 23: 10,000/25,000 (25,000)
Entries: 118/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Below is the most recent batch of eliminations. It includes former champion David Barone, amongst others.

Place Player Country Prize
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 England €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 Sweden €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 Brazil €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 England €1,230
148 Fabrizio Pillitteri Italy €1,230
149 Hryhorii Meleshenko Ukraine €1,230
150 Ziga Klopcic Slovenia €1,230
151 Marjan Mitrovski Macedonia €1,230
152 Dariusz Maniecki Poland €1,230
153 Alexios Messalas Greece €1,230
154 Leon Renmans England €1,230
155 Mihai Nistor Romania €1,230
156 Nigel Hartwell England €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 England €1,230
Big Stacks at the Final Break 31 May 22:53 by Christoffer

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 23: 10,000/25,000 (25,000)
Entries: 118/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

The remaining 118 players in Day 2 of the €600 Main Event are currently on the final 20-minute break of the day. They will soon resume play; they will play two more levels before bagging for tomorrow’s Day 3. Below are the biggest stacks this reporter was able to identify. The three biggest stacks are all on the same table.

Right before the break, reigning champion Adrian Ziemichod was eliminated; he got €1,450 for his onehundred-twenty-second place finish.

Player Country Chips Big Blinds
Erlend Kalstad Norway 3,100,000 124
Dimitrios Stampoultzis Greece 2,500,000 100
Benyamin Canatan Denmark 2,180,000 87
Dimitrios Asgoudakis Greece 1,850,000 74
Daniele Renzi Italy 1,750,000 70

 

Weiner Captures Second PLO Title This Week 31 May 22:32 by Christoffer

€250 PLO4/5 Round Each
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 (20,000)
Entries: 1/76
Prize Pool: €16,431

We interrupt the €600 Main Event Day 2 coverage with a side event result. Wiktor Weiner won the €250 PLO4/5 Round Each for €4,530. What’s impressive is that this is Weiner’s second trophy this week, seeing as he won the €250 PLO Masters 4/5/6 the other day.

On the final hand, he and his heads-up opponent, Itzhak Zenati, got it all in on a Q♦Q♣A♠J♥4♣ board. Zenati must’ve thought he was good with Q♥J♠5♣2♥, but Weiner secured the lot with A♦Q♠7♠5♠. Below are the full results from the tournament.

Place Player Country Prize
1 Wiktor Weiner Malta €4,530
2 Itzhak Zenati Portugal €3,210
3 Andreas Vlachos Greece €2,100
4 Yarin Matan Israel €1,620
5 Aristeidis Markantonakis Greece €1,280
6 Jimmy Gernander Sweden €1,000
7 Gianluca Trancanella Italy €705
8 Patrick Lebenbauer Switzerland €705
9 Jan Wojtkielewicz Poland €460
10 Joseph Sweeney Ireland €410
11 Antoni Dzhelaliev Bulgaria €410

 

Mazet Still in the Mix 31 May 22:13 by Christoffer

Florence Mazet

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 22: 10,000/20,000 (20,000)
Entries: 129/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Florence Mazet, who finished Day 1c as the chip leader, opened to 40,000 UTG. Seated in the Big Blind, Tomas Hrstka was the sole caller.

Hrstka check-called 30,000 from Mazet on the 5♣4♣3♠ flop. Both players checked down the 5♥3♣ runout.

Tomas Hrstka: A♠T♠
Florence Mazet: A♦4♥

Hrstka admitted he thought his hand would win, but a superior two-pair saw Mazet securing the pot.

Florence Mazet: 970,000
Tomas Hrstka: 725,000

Intriguing Blind Versus Blind Action 31 May 21:51 by Christoffer

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 22: 10,000/20,000 (20,000)
Entries: 149/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Action folded to Dimitrios Zournatzidis, who attempted to limp from the Small Blind. Davide Caramia wouldn’t allow it; he made it 45,000. Zournatzidis then re-raised to 100,000, and Caramia made the call after some consideration.

Zournatzidis continued on the aggressive path with a 50,000 bet on the 4♥6♦3♠ flop, and Caramia made the call, again after spending some time in the tank. Zournatzidis slowed down and checked the wt 5♠ river. Caramia considered his options for another five minutes before betting 50,000. Zournatzidis swiftly mucked.

Davide Caramia: 615,000
Dimitrios Zournatzidis: 300,000

High Roller Update 31 May 21:19 by Richard Hayes

Battle of Malta Summer Edition

€1,100 Star Yes High Roller Day 1
Level 5: 200/400 
Entries: 78/85
Prize Pool: €200,000 Guaranteed

A total of 85 entries thus far, with play due to conclude at the end of Level 10, and late registration open until the start of Level 13 in Day 2.

Mateo Ciglar, Micky Blasi and Dominik Cybulski, who bagged a €20,000 bounty in the Siege of Malta, are among the big stacks.

Cowboys Cracked 31 May 21:18 by Christoffer

Sebastian Mortensen

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 21: 10,000/15,000 (15,000)
Entries: 162/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Davide Caramia opened to 30,000 UTG. Rosario Amico made it 90,000 from the Hi-jack, and Sebastian Mortensen then four-bet to 150,000 on the Button. After Caramia folded, Amico moved all in for 390,000. Being priced in, Mortensen made the call without hesitation.

Rosario Amico: K♥K♣
Sebastian Mortensen: A♦Q♥

Amico was in a good position with the kings, but the A♣Q♣J♠ flop turned the tables. The board completed with 5♦3♥, and Amico’s tournament campaign came to an end.

Sebastian Mortensen: 1,120,000
Rosario Amico: 0

Main Event Eliminations 31 May 21:15 by Richard Hayes

Battle of Malta 2026 Welcome Speech

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 21: 10,000/15,000 (15,000)
Entries: 170/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

We are down to the final 170 players in the Main Event, with the following having exited:-

Place Name Country Prize
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 England €1,230
180 Gakuto Horiuchi Japan €1,230
181 Ionut Arvatu Romania €1,230
182 Abramo Marangio Italy €1,230
183 Steven Kirsh Canada €1,230
184 Jose-Luis Rodriguez France €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 Bosnia-Herzegovina €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 Slovakia €1,150
199 Jonathan Raab England €1,150
200 Marflene Cricchiola Malta €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 Poland €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 Paraguay €1,150
221 Robert Previsic Croatia €1,150
222 Oreste Faga Italy €1,150
223 Anastasios Vourexakis Greece €1,150
224 Mark Deacon England €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 England €1,100
232 Luka Urosevic Malta €1,100
233 Antoan Katsarov Bulgaria €1,100
234 Francesco Tuzzolino Italy €1,100
235 Cosimo De Gennaro Italy €1,100
236 Daniela Busmachiu Romania €1,100
237 Stanislav Bronshtein Ukraine €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 Clausin Spain €1,100
244 Nikola Minovic Serbia €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 Barna Romania €1,100
253 Ionut Toma Romania €1,100
254 Alfredo Brancia Italy €1,100
255 Joona Nyholm Finland €1,100
256 Alberto 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 France €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 Belligammi Italy €1,050
278 Nigel Stentiford England €1,050
279 Cristian Mihu Malta €1,050
280 Gil Preter Israel €1,050
281 Oliver Mihajlovski Macedonia €1,050
282 Andre Haakestad Norway €1,050
283 Craig Lauder England €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 England €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 Cyprus €1,050
Big Stacks at the First Break 31 May 20:34 by Christoffer

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 21: 10,000/15,000 (15,000)
Entries: 189/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

The remaining 189 players in the ever-so prestigious €600 Main Event are now on the first break of the day. Below are the biggest stacks this live reporter was able to identify.

Player Country Chips Big Blinds
Konstantinos Asgoudakis Greece 1,500,000 100
Fausto Gravagna Italy 1,450,000 97
Dimitrios Asgoudakis Greece 1,300,000 87
Fredrick Bratein Norway 1,295,000 86
Robert McAdam England 1,295,000 86
Cara Cara Mia, Cara Cara Mia; Love is All we Need 31 May 20:13 by Christoffer

Adrian Ziemichod

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 20: 6,000/12,000 (12,000)
Entries: 195/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Reigning champion Adrian Ziemichod opened to 24,000 from UTG+1. Davide Caramia (Hi-jack), Nihat Muldur (Button), and industry veteran Jonathan Raab (Big Blind) all made the call.

First to act, Raab checked the 4♦9♦A♠ flop. Ziemichod continued for 25,000, and was then faced with a 75,000 raise from Caramia. Raab folded out of turn, Muldur folded, and Ziemichod counted out the chips and made the call.

The two contestants checked down the 9♣2♠ runout.

Adrian Ziemichod: J♦T♦
Davide Caramia: A♣4♣

Top pair was enough for Caramia to secure the lot.

Davide Caramia: 688,000
Adrian Ziemichod: 295,000

Parrinello Dances the Blues 31 May 20:06 by Christoffer

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 20: 6,000/12,000 (12,000)
Entries: 200/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Action folded to Sergio Parrinello, who opened to 25,000 on the Button. Big stacked Jiri Novak made it 80,000 from the Small Blind, and Parrinello made the call.

Novak kept on the aggressive path with a 55,000 bet on the A♥7♦4♥ flop, and Parrinello wasted little time before going all in for 236,000. This sent Novak in the tank; he contemplated his decision for two to three minutes before ultimately folding.

As the dealer pushed the chips towards Parrinello, the Italian revealed his 9♠8♠ holdings. What a move!

Jiri Novak: 688,000
Sergio Parrinello: 471,000

Wojtas Increases 31 May 19:22 by Christoffer

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 19: 5,000/10,000 (10,000)
Entries: 247/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Nico Marraffa opened to 20,000 from the Hi-jack. Big-stacked Damian Wojtas made the call from the Small Blind, and Jakub Wujcikowski joined the fun from the Big Blind.

All three players checked the K♠4♥J♣ flop and the T♠ turn. Wojtas bet 20,000 on the 3♣ river, and Marraffa made the call.

Wojtas tabled Q♥J♦, which was enough to take down the pot. Surely, he’s one of the five biggest stacks at this point.

Damian Wojtas: 1,320,000
Nico Marraffa: 405,000

€200 Casino Malta PokerHouse NLH Update 31 May 19:16 by Richard Hayes

Battle of Malta Podcast

€200 Casino Malta PokerHouse NLH
Level 16: 5,000/10,000 (10,000)
Entries: 16/146
Prize Pool: €23,331

A total of 146 entrants created a €23,331 prize pool with 20 places paid, with €5,600 awaiting the winner.

The payouts are as follows:-

Place Prize
1 €5,600
2 €3,800
3 €2,520
4 €2,070
5 €1,670
6 €1,310
7 €980
8 €720
9 €540
10-11 €470
12-13 €420
14-15 €380
16-17 €340
18-20 €300
PLO 4/5 Card Update 31 May 19:10 by Richard Hayes

€250 PLO 4/5 Card
Level 4: 200/400 (400)
Entries: 10/76
Prize Pool: €16,431

A total of 76 entrants created a €16,431 prize pool, to be split between the top 11 finishers.

Players still seated include Joseph Sweeney, Andreas Vlachos and Wiktor Weiner, going for his second title of the week.

The payouts are as follows:-

Place Prize
1 €4,530
2 €3,210
3 €2,100
4 €1,620
5 €1,280
6 €1,000
7 €790
8 €620
9 €460
10 €410
11 €410
Banana Split 31 May 19:07 by Christoffer

Sebastian Mortensen

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 19: 5,000/10,000 (10,000)
Entries: 265/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Action folded to poker media virtuoso Jonathan Raab, who min-raised to 20,000 from the Hi-jack. Seated right next to him, Sebastian Mortensen was the sole caller.

Raab bet 20,000 on the 3♥7♥A♦ flop, and Mortensen made the call. Raab then check-called 33,000 from Mortensen on the 2♥ turn. Both players checked the 7♦ river.

Jonathan Raab: A♥T♣
Sebastian Mortensen: A♠T♠

Both players seemed relieved to split the pot; the celebrated with a fist bump.

Sebastian Mortensen: 382,000
Jonathan Raab: 297,000

€200,000 Guaranteed High Roller About to Kick Off 31 May 19:02 by Richard Hayes

Philip Pearson

€1,100 Star Yes High Roller Day 1
Level 1: 100/100 
Entries: 25/25
Prize Pool: €200,000 Guaranteed

The €1,100 buy-in €200,000 guaranteed Star Yes High Roller is about to kick off, with 25 players registered. Players sit down to a 50,000 starting stack, with the clock set to 30-minute levels. Ten levels will be played in Day 1, with Day 2 scheduled for 1 p.m. on 1 June.

Players registered include Florian Henck, Filip Krupa, Pawel Dudnik and Philip Pearson.

First Batch of Casualties 31 May 18:52 by Christoffer

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 19: 5,000/10,000 (10,000)
Entries: 302/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Below are the results from Day 2 thus far. Rasmus Lundström is one of the early exits.

Position Name Country Prize
294 Diego Romei Italy €1,050
295 Fouad Chouri Sweden €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 England €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 England €1,050
312 Miguel Hernandez Spain €1,050
313 Riamon Taskinen Sweden €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 Malta €1,050
321 Nikolaos Oikonomou Greece €1,050
322 Krystian Nalepka Poland €1,050
323 Daniele Intilisano Italy €1,050
324 Andreas Hartl Austria €1,050
325 Lorian-Mihai Bellu Romania €1,050
326 Francesco Blasio Italy €1,050
327 Kleber Chapon England €1,050
328 Philip Pearson England €1,000
329 Antal Mezei Hungary €1,000
330 Samuel Marseiler Italy €1,000
331 Cristian Nania Italy €1,000
332 Jonatan Samuel Romania €1,000
333 Manuel Maganuco Italy €1,000
334 Umberto De Cunto Italy €1,000
335 Gianluca Mancuso Italy €1,000
336 William Gilbert Brazil €1,000
337 Itzhak Zenati Portugal €1,000
338 Francesco Munafo Italy €1,000
339 Arci Mattia Italy €1,000
340 Konstantinos Kertikidis Greece €1,000
341 Maria Koutsouki Greece €1,000
342 Florian Dietrich France €1,000
343 Turgay Akin Switzerland €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 England €1,000
349 Antoine Talvard France €1,000
350 Jon Alemany Spain €1,000
351 Francesco 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 Malta €1,000
356 Jacek Goraj Poland €1,000
357 Rasmus Lundström Finland €1,000
358 Christopher Newton England €1,000

 

Barone Sees Off Nalepka 31 May 18:40 by Christoffer

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 19: 5,000/10,000 (10,000)
Entries: 302/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Action folded to short-stacked Krystian Nalepka, who moved all in for 66,000 from the Small Blind. 2023 Battle of Malta Summer Edition €600 Main Event winner Dario Barone peeked at his hole cards, then immediately made the call.

Krystian Nalepka: Q♠8♥
Dario Barone: A♠A♣

Nalepka was in rough shape. The 6♦7♠T♠ flop brought some excitement, but as the board completed with J♥7♣, Nalepka’s tournament life came to an end.

Dario Barone: 318,000
Krysstian Nalepka: 0

Payouts Announced – €176,070 to the Champion 31 May 18:29 by Christoffer

€600 Main

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 (8,000)
Entries: 358/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

The payouts have been announced for the Main Event. Up top is a juicy €176,070 first-place prize.

Position Payout
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 €111,10
14-15 €9,910
16-17 €8,720
18-20 €7,530
21-23 €6,340
24-27 €5,200
28-31 €4,430
32-39 €3,680
40-55 €3,000
56-71 €2,370
72-95 €2,000
96-119 €1,700
120-143 €1,450
144-183 €1,230
184-223 €1,150
224-263 €1,100
264-327 €1,050
328-358 €1,000
Vestertas Leads 358 Battle of Malta 2026 Summer Edition Main Event Day 2 Qualifiers 31 May 18:21 by Richard Hayes

Battle of Malta

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 16: 4,000/8,000 (8,000)
Entries: 358/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,192,442

Ugnius Vestertas (1,013,000) leads 358 qualifiers into Day 2 of the Main Event, with all players having guaranteed a €1,000 minimum cash, while the huge sum of €176,070 awaits the champion.

He is chased by Junyu Liu of China (998,000) and Brit Rob McAdam (973,000)

The start of day counts are as follows:-

Position Name Country Chips Blinds
1 Ugnius Vestertas Lithuania 1,010,000 126
2 Junyu Liu China 998,000 124
3 Robert McAdam England 973,000 121
4 Marco D’Amico Italy 835,000 104
5 Konstantinos Asgoudakis Greece 786,000 98
6 Florence Mazet France 745,000 93
7 Stefan Ianuszewicz Romania 740,000 92
8 Luigi D’alterio Italy 735,000 91
9 Radoslaw Krosnowski Poland 710,000 88
10 Mark Vella Malta 708,000 88
11 Audrius Daugvilavicius Lithuania 665,000 83
12 Roar Aspas Norway 664,000 83
13 Sergio Di Ruberto Italy 655,000 81
14 Ahmet Canatan Turkey 650,000 81
15 Aristeidis Aftias Greece 648,000 81
16 Fausto Gravagna Italy 631,000 78
17 Marko Grujic Serbia 624,000 78
18 Erik Oestergaard Denmark 616,000 77
19 Marko Cosic Serbia 605,000 75
20 Dimitrios Sarris Greece 603,000 75
21 Ziga Klopcic Slovenia 601,000 75
22 Pinhas Belezada Israel 588,000 73
23 Konstantinos Dimadis Greece 585,000 73
24 Veaceslav Jumir Moldova 577,000 72
25 Danilo Scevola Italy 571,000 71
26 David Taborsky Czech Republic 558,000 69
27 Ronen Avraham Israel 550,000 68
28 Gareth Hamilton Ireland 550,000 68
29 Francesco Natale Italy 548,000 68
30 Marek Grzeska Poland 545,000 68
31 Houssem Meftahi Tunisia 541,000 67
32 Aleksandrs Krumins Latvia 535,000 66
33 Dominik Wochnik Poland 535,000 66
34 Jaroslaw Falkowski Poland 533,000 66
35 Matiss Celmins Latvia 531,000 66
36 Dimitrios Asgoudakis Greece 530,000 66
37 Jader Pederzini Italy 506,000 63
38 Nikola Minovic Serbia 501,000 62
39 Anthony Ouillon France 493,000 61
40 Fabrizio Pillitteri Italy 486,000 60
41 Erlend Kalstad Norway 479,000 59
42 Rosario Amico Italy 470,000 58
43 Anton Makejev Estonia 465,000 58
44 Dariusz Maniecki Poland 465,000 58
45 Rocco Taglianetti Italy 462,000 57
46 Adrian Ziemichod Poland 462,000 57
47 Sebastian Szychulski Poland 459,000 57
48 Angelo Censabella Italy 453,000 56
49 Mihai Nistor Romania 452,000 56
50 Antonio Leanza Italy 450,000 56
51 Jean-Pascal Vernet France 448,000 56
52 Arnaud Boudet France 447,000 55
53 Giampaolo Puglia Italy 434,000 54
54 Masoud Fatollahy Sweden 433,000 54
55 Doron Lahav Israel 433,000 54
56 Andreas Hartl Austria 431,000 53
57 Tomas Major Czech Republic 430,000 53
58 David Kozma Hungary 422,000 52
59 Grigorios Archontakis Greece 419,000 52
60 Davide Raschella’ Italy 417,000 52
61 Stefano Titola Italy 416,000 52
62 Renato Messina Italy 414,000 51
63 Dimitrios Anastasakis Greece 409,000 51
64 Erik Polluveer Estonia 404,000 50
65 Nihat Muldur Turkey 403,000 50
66 Marc Clausin Spain 403,000 50
67 Pancrazio Manni Italy 401,000 50
68 Luis Marthino Portugal 400,000 50
69 Luke Tatum England 400,000 50
70 Frederico Hitner Brazil 397,000 49
71 Robin Kruhai Germany 379,000 47
72 Andreas Leu Switzerland 376,000 47
73 Emmanouil Livanos Greece 376,000 47
74 Dawid Kocyla Poland 375,000 46
75 Leocir Carneiro Brazil 374,000 46
76 Stefan Wiesebrock Germany 374,000 46
77 Vincenzo Popolo Italy 373,000 46
78 Nigel Hartwell England 372,000 46
79 Emanuele Amenta Italy 371,000 46
80 Jonathan Raab England 369,000 46
81 Nico Marraffa Italy 367,000 45
82 Christian Sykora Austria 366,000 45
83 Tomas Hrstka Czech Republic 365,000 45
84 Franco Scalise Luxembourg 363,000 45
85 Antonios Koukouras Greece 361,000 45
86 Robert Previsic Croatia 361,000 45
87 Alessandro Marongiu Italy 359,000 44
88 Gianluca Donini Italy 357,000 44
89 Oscar Rossi Italy 356,000 44
90 Ionut Arvatu Romania 355,000 44
91 Alessandro Signoriello Italy 350,000 43
92 Szymon Politowski Poland 349,000 43
93 Antonio Russello Italy 348,000 43
94 Fabrizio Zucca Italy 347,000 43
95 Andris Resevskis Latvia 345,000 43
96 Davide Caramia Italy 344,000 43
97 Akser Osak Poland 343,000 42
98 Igor Bukowski Poland 341,000 42
99 Madis Ormisson Estonia 341,000 42
100 Panteleimon Pontos Greece 341,000 42
101 Damian Wojtas Poland 338,000 42
102 Artur Gjoka Albania 336,000 42
103 Alessandro Nocerino Italy 333,000 41
104 Salvatrice D’urso Italy 332,000 41
105 Cosimo De Gennaro Italy 326,000 40
106 Dimitrios Stampoultzis Greece 326,000 40
107 Christos Tsamatsoulis Greece 323,000 40
108 Daniel Gumula Poland 322,000 40
109 Liwei Wang China 320,000 40
110 Jakub Chciuk Poland 319,000 39
111 Itay Barak Israel 316,000 39
112 Theodoros Ampelikiotis Greece 315,000 39
113 Maurizio Saieva Italy 312,000 39
114 Sebastian Mortensen Malta 310,000 38
115 Kaspars Mallons Latvia 309,000 38
116 Biagio Morciano Italy 306,000 38
117 Jorge Geraldes Germany 305,000 38
118 Marian Ciupeiu Romania 304,000 38
119 Jiri Novak Czech Republic 304,000 38
120 Giuseppe Rosa Italy 303,000 37
121 Marjan Mitrovski Bulgaria 301,000 37
122 Evangelos Argyris Greece 298,000 37
123 Carmelo Capizzi Italy 296,000 37
124 Piero Formichella Italy 296,000 37
125 Walter Lotter Germany 296,000 37
126 Antonio Buonanno Italy 295,000 36
127 Joao Silva Portugal 294,000 36
128 Davide Iannaco Italy 290,000 36
129 Vincenzo Mangiapane Italy 290,000 36
130 Zonglei Zhao China 290,000 36
131 Marcin Majcher Poland 288,000 36
132 Kristian Holmgren Norway 286,000 35
133 Leon Renmans England 282,000 35
134 Anastasios Vourexakis Greece 282,000 35
135 Antoan Katsarov Bulgaria 279,000 34
136 Julien Stropoli France 276,000 34
137 Stanislav Bronshtein Ukraine 275,000 34
138 Marflene Cricchiola Malta 275,000 34
139 Liron Kroani Israel 275,000 34
140 Marcello Bona Italy 273,000 34
141 Alejandro Asenjo Spain 272,000 34
142 Sebastian Kotowicz Poland 271,000 33
143 Sukru Arican Turkey 270,000 33
144 Alberto Alvarez Spain 270,000 33
145 Robert Krzywina Poland 268,000 33
146 Manuel Maganuco Italy 268,000 33
147 Daniele Puccio Italy 268,000 33
148 Giuseppe Di Bella Italy 267,000 33
149 Sofiene Bezzah France 264,000 33
150 Vilmos Farkas Hungary 264,000 33
151 Oliver Hutchins England 264,000 33
152 Leandro Cataldo Italy 262,000 32
153 Steven Kirsh Canada 260,000 32
154 Alessandro Fasano Italy 259,000 32
155 Milosz Siedlecki Poland 259,000 32
156 Daniele Sacchi Italy 255,000 31
157 Fredrick Bratein Norway 254,000 31
158 Aljosa Kobale Malta 254,000 31
159 Joona Nyholm Finland 254,000 31
160 Sokratis Oikonomou Greece 253,000 31
161 Kimi Sipilae Finland 253,000 31
162 Idan Nagauker Israel 250,000 31
163 Cahit Basbug Turkey 248,000 31
164 Andre Riseng Norway 248,000 31
165 Gil Preter Israel 246,000 30
166 Andrew Cutajar Malta 245,000 30
167 Carlo Solazzo England 245,000 30
168 Craig Lauder England 244,000 30
169 Cyprian Nosek Poland 244,000 30
170 Daniele Solidoro Italy 243,000 30
171 Marius Negrescu Romania 241,000 30
172 Shervin Ghassemlou England 240,000 30
173 Dimitrios Marmagkiolis Greece 240,000 30
174 Dimitrios Zournatzidis Greece 240,000 30
175 Georgios Papakonstantinou Greece 239,000 29
176 Jakub Riska Slovakia 239,000 29
177 Anargyros Loizos Greece 238,000 29
178 Abraham Berkovitch Israel 234,000 29
179 Abramo Marangio Italy 234,000 29
180 Daniele Renzi Italy 234,000 29
181 Rami Amuri Latvia 230,000 28
182 Flaviano Cammisuli Italy 230,000 28
183 Battista Locati Italy 230,000 28
184 Mihai Cismaru Romania 228,000 28
185 Nicola D’aquaro Italy 226,000 28
186 Maciej Blazejewski Poland 225,000 28
187 Alina Paliahoshka Belarus 224,000 28
188 Ruggero Magri’ Italy 221,000 27
189 Christou Christos Cyprus 220,000 27
190 Andre Haakestad Norway 219,000 27
191 Ettore Esposito Italy 217,000 27
192 Antonino Karman Hungary 217,000 27
193 Konstantinos Kertikidis Greece 217,000 27
194 Jakub Wujcikowski Poland 217,000 27
195 Igor Pasierbek Poland 216,000 27
196 Andrea Parisi Italy 212,000 26
197 Dario Calabrese Italy 210,000 26
198 Robert Baker England 209,000 26
199 Daniel Yerin Germany 207,000 25
200 Karen Kalif Israel 205,000 25
201 Paolo Di Girolamo Italy 205,000 25
202 Ariel Reidman Israel 205,000 25
203 Kleber Chapon England 204,000 25
204 Matteo Ferrara Italy 202,000 25
205 Enea Subashi Greece 202,000 25
206 Giorgio Bellanca Italy 200,000 25
207 Yujun Kim 199,000 24
208 Maximilian Golle Germany 198,000 24
209 Daniela Busmachiu Romania 195,000 24
210 Angelo Vietti Italy 194,000 24
211 Gakuto Horiuchi Japan 193,000 24
212 Andy Schink Germany 193,000 24
213 Lorian Bellu Romania 192,000 24
214 Vito Pizzitola Italy 191,000 23
215 Constantin Chincisan Romania 189,000 23
216 Alfredo Brancia Italy 186,000 23
217 Sergio Parrinello Italy 186,000 23
218 Andreas Bjerklund Norway 185,000 23
219 Gianluca Perino Italy 185,000 23
220 Armando Picozzi Italy 184,000 23
221 Ovidiu Barna Romania 183,000 22
222 Simone Facciponti Italy 183,000 22
223 Gianmarco Grande Italy 181,000 22
224 Gianfranco Casaluce Italy 179,000 22
225 Nestoras Kakoyiannis Cyprus 178,000 22
226 Sebastiano Belligammi Italy 177,000 22
227 Caomhan Mclaughlin Ireland 177,000 22
228 Gabriel Rymar Poland 177,000 22
229 Lorenzo Di Blasi Italy 175,000 21
230 Laurentiu Avram Romania 174,000 21
231 Adam Lawniczak Poland 173,000 21
232 Francesco Tuzzolino Italy 173,000 21
233 Raul Suceava Romania 169,000 21
234 Paulo Rodrigues Portugal 167,000 20
235 Barak Hen Israel 165,000 20
236 David Skoloud Czech Republic 165,000 20
237 Pia Fransson Sweden 162,000 20
238 Iosif Botar Romania 161,000 20
239 Jaroslaw Chmiel Poland 160,000 20
240 Abilio Da Silva Paraguay 157,000 19
241 Marco Maggio Italy 157,000 19
242 Edvinas Gruzdas Lithuania 155,000 19
243 William Gilbert Brazil 154,000 19
244 Dario Barone Italy 153,000 19
245 Alexandru Boboc Romania 153,000 19
246 Joseph Jouayek Lebanon 152,000 19
247 Marian Klitchev Bulgaria 152,000 19
248 Paulo Pinheiro Portugal 151,000 18
249 Giuseppe Milone Italy 151,000 18
250 Elio Caferro Italy 150,000 18
251 Marco Deidda Italy 150,000 18
252 Erik Lindqwist Sweden 150,000 18
253 Simone Quadrini Italy 149,000 18
254 Andrea Maiolino Italy 146,000 18
255 Daniele Maldonato Italy 146,000 18
256 Patryk Szysz Poland 146,000 18
257 Hryhorii Meleshenko Ukraine 145,000 18
258 Onni Huttunen Finland 144,000 18
259 Jonatan Samuel Romania 144,000 18
260 Alessandro Cannizzaro Italy 142,000 17
261 Tiberiu Florescu Romania 142,000 17
262 Gennaro Loffredo Italy 142,000 17
263 Lukasz Sen Poland 142,000 17
264 Mateo Ciglar Croatia 139,000 17
265 John Kelly England 139,000 17
266 Jacek Pustula Poland 139,000 17
267 Giulio Spampinato Italy 139,000 17
268 Jonathan Therme France 138,000 17
269 Darius Mandi Romania 136,000 17
270 Marco Zingarelli Italy 136,000 17
271 Nikolaos Oikonomou Greece 135,000 16
272 Dimitar Syarov Bulgaria 135,000 16
273 Carmelo Fangano Italy 133,000 16
274 Pawel Wakuluk Poland 133,000 16
275 Pawan Thaper England 132,000 16
276 Oliver Mihajlovski Macedonia 130,000 16
277 Siim Sakeus Estonia 130,000 16
278 Stavros Passias Greece 128,000 16
279 Ernestas Stalemekas Lithuania 128,000 16
280 Palina Mankevich Poland 127,000 15
281 Srdan Milijas Croatia 127,000 15
282 Nicholas Ramsey England 127,000 15
283 Michal Procner Poland 125,000 15
284 Francesco Munafo’ Italy 123,000 15
285 Jonas Engedal Norway 120,000 15
286 Daniele Intilisano Italy 119,000 14
287 Maria Koutsouki Greece 119,000 14
288 Mario Fiordelisi Italy 118,000 14
289 Giuseppe Positano Italy 118,000 14
290 Pavel Novikov Cyprus 116,000 14
291 Carina Voncken Netherlands 116,000 14
292 Cristian Mihu Malta 114,000 14
293 Piotr Wasilewski Poland 111,000 13
294 Umberto De Cunto Italy 109,000 13
295 Philip Pearson England 109,000 13
296 Miika Toeyraes Finland 109,000 13
297 Gabriel Dinu Romania 108,000 13
298 Oreste Faga Italy 108,000 13
299 Gianluca Mancuso Italy 107,000 13
300 Riamon Taskinen Sweden 106,000 13
301 Marcin Grudzien Poland 105,000 13
302 Theo Delouche France 103,000 12
303 Angelo Ledda Italy 103,000 12
304 Jon San Juan Alemany Spain 103,000 12
305 Daniel Henriques Portugal 102,000 12
306 Giuseppe Ognisanto Italy 101,000 12
307 Francesco Blasio Italy 100,000 12
308 Andrej Duplancic 100,000 12
309 Christoph Tanner Switzerland 98,000 12
310 Salvatore Anastasio Italy 97,000 12
311 Giovanna Dimartino Italy 97,000 12
312 Christopher Newton England 95,000 11
313 Nicolaj D’antoni Italy 94,000 11
314 Aleksi Heikkinen Finland 94,000 11
315 Loreto Enea Italy 92,000 11
316 Ioannis Koulopoulos Greece 92,000 11
317 Salvatore Saracino Italy 92,000 11
318 Hugo Loustau France 91,000 11
319 Diego Romei Italy 91,000 11
320 Giovanni Caggia Italy 90,000 11
321 Markus Dahl Norway 90,000 11
322 Antal Mezei Hungary 90,000 11
323 Jose-Luis Rodriguez France 90,000 11
324 Vedran Sujkovic Bosnia-Erzegovina 89,000 11
325 Antoine Talvard France 89,000 11
326 Mark Deacon England 87,000 10
327 Frank Staecker Germany 84,000 10
328 Fouad Chouri Sweden 83,000 10
329 Luka Urosevic Malta 81,000 10
330 Alexios Messalas Greece 79,000 9
331 Krystian Nalepka Poland 78,000 9
332 Itzhak Zenati Portugal 78,000 9
333 Valerio Missori Italy 76,000 9
334 Florian Henck Germany 75,000 9
335 Cristian Nania Italy 75,000 9
336 Grazia Caruso Italy 74,000 9
337 Ivane Khazaradze Georgia 73,000 9
338 Nicola Rappazzo Malta 69,000 8
339 Emmanouil Kostakis Greece 68,000 8
340 Samuel Marseiler Italy 56,000 7
341 Ozren Cvijanovic Malta 55,000 6
342 Hanna Heinlo Estonia 55,000 6
343 Alexandre Bermon France 53,000 6
344 Arci Mattia Italy 51,000 6
345 David Williams England 50,000 6
346 Nigel Stentiford England 48,000 6
347 Ionut Toma Romania 45,000 5
348 Florian Dietrich France 43,000 5
349 Grzegorz Bartold Poland 42,000 5
350 Mark Mckenzie England 41,000 5
351 Miguel Sanchez Spain 40,000 5
352 Ran Shahar Israel 32,000 4
353 Francesco Della Sala Italy 30,000 3
354 Jacek Goraj Poland 28,000 3
355 Rasmus Lundstroem Finland 17,000 2
356 Turgay Akin Switzerland 15,000 1
357 Cristiano Zambonelli Italy 14,600 1
358 Antonio Privitera Italy 8,000 1

 

The Day 2 seating draw is as follows:-

Table Seat Name Country Chips Blinds
1 1 Paulo Rodrigues Portugal 167,000 20
1 2 Giuseppe Rosa Italy 303,000 37
1 3 Lukasz Sen Poland 142,000 17
1 4 Yujun Kim 199,000 24
1 5 Diego Romei Italy 91,000 11
1 6 Jader Pederzini Italy 506,000 63
1 7 Emmanouil Kostakis Greece 68,000 8
1 8 Jaroslaw Falkowski Poland 533,000 66
2 1 Daniele Maldonato Italy 146,000 18
2 2 John Kelly England 139,000 17
2 3 Panteleimon Pontos Greece 341,000 42
2 4 Anastasios Vourexakis Greece 282,000 35
2 5 Siim Sakeus Estonia 130,000 16
2 6 Giulio Spampinato Italy 139,000 17
2 7 Alessandro Cannizzaro Italy 142,000 17
2 8 Florence Mazet France 745,000 93
3 1 Maximilian Golle Germany 198,000 24
3 2 Junyu Liu China 998,000 124
3 3 Ozren Cvijanovic Malta 55,000 6
3 4 Barak Hen Israel 165,000 20
3 5 Joao Silva Portugal 294,000 36
3 6 Zonglei Zhao China 290,000 36
3 7 Cristiano Zambonelli Italy 14,600 1
3 8 Gabriel Dinu Romania 108,000 13
4 1 Paolo Di Girolamo Italy 205,000 25
4 2 Marc Clausin Spain 403,000 50
4 3 Samuel Marseiler Italy 56,000 7
4 4 Houssem Meftahi Tunisia 541,000 67
4 5 Loreto Enea Italy 92,000 11
4 6 Oscar Rossi Italy 356,000 44
4 7 Sergio Di Ruberto Italy 655,000 81
4 8 Antonio Buonanno Italy 295,000 36
5 1 Giovanni Caggia Italy 90,000 11
5 2 Antonio Leanza Italy 450,000 56
5 3 Francesco Blasio Italy 100,000 12
5 4 Nigel Stentiford England 48,000 6
5 5 Angelo Vietti Italy 194,000 24
5 6 Oliver Mihajlovski Macedonia 130,000 16
5 7 Mark Vella Malta 708,000 88
5 8 Ioannis Koulopoulos Greece 92,000 11
6 1 David Williams England 50,000 6
6 2 Francesco Natale Italy 548,000 68
6 3 Hryhorii Meleshenko Ukraine 145,000 18
6 4 Alessandro Nocerino Italy 333,000 41
6 5 Nikolaos Oikonomou Greece 135,000 16
6 6 Enea Subashi Greece 202,000 25
6 7 Andre Haakestad Norway 219,000 27
6 8 Kaspars Mallons Latvia 309,000 38
7 1 Jakub Riska Slovakia 239,000 29
7 2 Oliver Hutchins England 264,000 33
7 3 Itzhak Zenati Portugal 78,000 9
7 4 Jakub Wujcikowski Poland 217,000 27
7 5 Maciej Blazejewski Poland 225,000 28
7 6 Franco Scalise Luxembourg 363,000 45
7 7 Ziga Klopcic Slovenia 601,000 75
7 8 Nico Marraffa Italy 367,000 45
8 1 Giuseppe Milone Italy 151,000 18
8 2 Steven Kirsh Canada 260,000 32
8 3 Biagio Morciano Italy 306,000 38
8 4 Jonatan Samuel Romania 144,000 18
8 5 Theodoros Ampelikiotis Greece 315,000 39
8 6 Luke Tatum England 400,000 50
8 7 Sukru Arican Turkey 270,000 33
8 8 Markus Dahl Norway 90,000 11
9 1 Igor Pasierbek Poland 216,000 27
9 2 Dario Calabrese Italy 210,000 26
9 3 Oreste Faga Italy 108,000 13
9 4 Kleber Chapon England 204,000 25
9 5 Liron Kroani Israel 275,000 34
9 6 Christian Sykora Austria 366,000 45
9 7 Leon Renmans England 282,000 35
9 8 Sokratis Oikonomou Greece 253,000 31
10 1 Fabrizio Zucca Italy 347,000 43
10 2 Andreas Hartl Austria 431,000 53
10 3 Walter Lotter Germany 296,000 37
10 4 Tomas Major Czech Republic 430,000 53
10 5 Luigi D’alterio Italy 735,000 91
10 6 Gabriel Rymar Poland 177,000 22
10 7 Georgios Papakonstantinou Greece 239,000 29
10 8 Mario Fiordelisi Italy 118,000 14
12 1 Ionut Toma Romania 45,000 5
12 2 Angelo Censabella Italy 453,000 56
12 3 Cyprian Nosek Poland 244,000 30
12 4 Giuseppe Di Bella Italy 267,000 33
12 5 Frank Staecker Germany 84,000 10
12 6 Flaviano Cammisuli Italy 230,000 28
12 7 Jonathan Therme France 138,000 17
12 8 Matteo Ferrara Italy 202,000 25
13 1 Umberto De Cunto Italy 109,000 13
13 2 Madis Ormisson Estonia 341,000 42
13 3 Stefan Ianuszewicz Romania 740,000 92
13 4 Anton Makejev Estonia 465,000 58
13 5 Vincenzo Popolo Italy 373,000 46
13 6 Dawid Kocyla Poland 375,000 46
13 7 Jacek Goraj Poland 28,000 3
13 8 Anthony Ouillon France 493,000 61
14 1 Ronen Avraham Israel 550,000 68
14 2 Antal Mezei Hungary 90,000 11
14 3 Robert Baker England 209,000 26
14 4 Arnaud Boudet France 447,000 55
14 5 Marian Klitchev Bulgaria 152,000 19
14 6 Davide Iannaco Italy 290,000 36
14 7 Francesco Tuzzolino Italy 173,000 21
14 8 Marco Zingarelli Italy 136,000 17
15 1 Pawel Wakuluk Poland 133,000 16
15 2 Aleksandrs Krumins Latvia 535,000 66
15 3 Grzegorz Bartold Poland 42,000 5
15 4 Matiss Celmins Latvia 531,000 66
15 5 Shervin Ghassemlou England 240,000 30
15 6 Mark Deacon England 87,000 10
15 7 Milosz Siedlecki Poland 259,000 32
15 8 Philip Pearson England 109,000 13
16 1 Carmelo Fangano Italy 133,000 16
16 2 Ovidiu Barna Romania 183,000 22
16 3 Giuseppe Ognisanto Italy 101,000 12
16 4 Antonio Privitera Italy 8,000 1
16 5 Karen Kalif Israel 205,000 25
16 6 Abramo Marangio Italy 234,000 29
16 7 Ruggero Magri’ Italy 221,000 27
16 8 Andre Riseng Norway 248,000 31
17 1 Vito Pizzitola Italy 191,000 23
17 2 Salvatore Anastasio Italy 97,000 12
17 3 Doron Lahav Israel 433,000 54
17 4 Maurizio Saieva Italy 312,000 39
17 5 Nicola Rappazzo Malta 69,000 8
17 6 Marco D’amico Italy 835,000 104
17 7 Frederico Hitner Brazil 397,000 49
17 8 Florian Henck Germany 75,000 9
18 1 Jonathan Raab England 369,000 46
18 2 Gianfranco Casaluce Italy 179,000 22
18 3 Adrian Ziemichod Poland 462,000 57
18 4 Erik Lindqwist Sweden 150,000 18
18 5 Alexandre Bermon France 53,000 6
18 6 Alejandro Asenjo Spain 272,000 34
18 7 Nihat Muldur Turkey 403,000 50
18 8 Rosario Amico Italy 470,000 58
19 1 Kimi Sipilae Finland 253,000 31
19 2 Dimitrios Stampoultzis Greece 326,000 40
19 3 Grazia Caruso Italy 74,000 9
19 4 Palina Mankevich Poland 127,000 15
19 5 Sofiene Bezzah France 264,000 33
19 6 Leandro Cataldo Italy 262,000 32
19 7 Robert Mcadam England 973,000 121
19 8 Erlend Kalstad Norway 479,000 59
20 1 Alessandro Fasano Italy 259,000 32
20 2 Craig Lauder England 244,000 30
20 3 Salvatrice D’urso Italy 332,000 41
20 4 Ernestas Stalemekas Lithuania 128,000 16
20 5 Roar Aspas Norway 664,000 83
20 6 Akser Osak Poland 343,000 42
20 7 Dimitrios Asgoudakis Greece 530,000 66
20 8 Radoslaw Krosnowski Poland 710,000 88
21 1 Miika Toeyraes Finland 109,000 13
21 2 David Kozma Hungary 422,000 52
21 3 Cristian Mihu Malta 114,000 14
21 4 Fouad Chouri Sweden 83,000 10
21 5 Alexandru Boboc Romania 153,000 19
21 6 Rami Amuri Latvia 230,000 28
21 7 Abilio Da Silva Paraguay 157,000 19
21 8 Antoine Talvard France 89,000 11
22 1 Gareth Hamilton Ireland 550,000 68
22 2 Konstantinos Dimadis Greece 585,000 73
22 3 Konstantinos Kertikidis Greece 217,000 27
22 4 Theo Delouche France 103,000 12
22 5 Fredrick Bratein Norway 254,000 31
22 6 Leocir Carneiro Brazil 374,000 46
22 7 Itay Barak Israel 316,000 39
22 8 Valerio Missori Italy 76,000 9
23 1 Daniela Busmachiu Romania 195,000 24
23 2 Jorge Geraldes Germany 305,000 38
23 3 Stanislav Bronshtein Ukraine 275,000 34
23 4 Daniel Gumula Poland 322,000 40
23 5 Marius Negrescu Romania 241,000 30
23 6 Sebastiano Belligammi Italy 177,000 22
23 7 Jaroslaw Chmiel Poland 160,000 20
23 8 Pia Fransson Sweden 162,000 20
24 1 Renato Messina Italy 414,000 51
24 2 Hanna Heinlo Estonia 55,000 6
24 3 Dariusz Maniecki Poland 465,000 58
24 4 Andrea Parisi Italy 212,000 26
24 5 Piotr Wasilewski Poland 111,000 13
24 6 Davide Raschella’ Italy 417,000 52
24 7 Evangelos Argyris Greece 298,000 37
24 8 Alberto Alvarez Spain 270,000 33
25 1 Jean-Pascal Vernet France 448,000 56
25 2 Antonio Russello Italy 348,000 43
25 3 David Skoloud Czech Republic 165,000 20
25 4 Christoph Tanner Switzerland 98,000 12
25 5 Andrej Duplancic Serbia 100,000 12
25 6 Marco Deidda Italy 150,000 18
25 7 Gianluca Perino Italy 185,000 23
25 8 Christopher Newton England 95,000 11
26 1 Cahit Basbug Turkey 248,000 31
26 2 Marcin Grudzien Poland 105,000 13
26 3 Grigorios Archontakis Greece 419,000 52
26 4 Aristeidis Aftias Greece 648,000 81
26 5 Marjan Mitrovski Bulgaria 301,000 37
26 6 Masoud Fatollahy Sweden 433,000 54
26 7 Ivane Khazaradze Georgia 73,000 9
26 8 Vedran Sujkovic Bosnia-Herzegovina 89,000 11
27 1 Emanuele Amenta Italy 371,000 46
27 2 Cristian Nania Italy 75,000 9
27 3 Battista Locati Italy 230,000 28
27 4 Tiberiu Florescu Romania 142,000 17
27 5 Artur Gjoka Albania 336,000 42
27 6 Nicholas Ramsey England 127,000 15
27 7 Sebastian Szychulski Poland 459,000 57
27 8 Stavros Passias Greece 128,000 16
28 1 Nicolaj D’antoni Italy 94,000 11
28 2 Gennaro Loffredo Italy 142,000 17
28 3 Carina Voncken Netherlands 116,000 14
28 4 Marian Ciupeiu Romania 304,000 38
28 5 Marflene Cricchiola Malta 275,000 34
28 6 Antoan Katsarov Bulgaria 279,000 34
28 7 Riamon Taskinen Sweden 106,000 13
28 8 Erik Oestergaard Denmark 616,000 77
29 1 Constantin Chincisan Romania 189,000 23
29 2 Alexios Messalas Greece 79,000 9
29 3 Christos Tsamatsoulis Greece 323,000 40
29 4 Marco Maggio Italy 157,000 19
29 5 Alessandro Signoriello Italy 350,000 43
29 6 Iosif Botar Romania 161,000 20
29 7 Adam Lawniczak Poland 173,000 21
29 8 Fausto Gravagna Italy 631,000 78
30 1 Daniel Yerin Germany 207,000 25
30 2 Dimitar Syarov Bulgaria 135,000 16
30 3 Nicola D’aquaro Italy 226,000 28
30 4 Sergio Parrinello Italy 186,000 23
30 5 Turgay Akin Switzerland 15,000 1
30 6 Arci Mattia Italy 51,000 6
30 7 Carmelo Capizzi Italy 296,000 37
30 8 Stefano Titola Italy 416,000 52
31 1 Ettore Esposito Italy 217,000 27
31 2 Manuel Maganuco Italy 268,000 33
31 3 Marcin Majcher Poland 288,000 36
31 4 Idan Nagauker Israel 250,000 31
31 5 Audrius Daugvilavicius Lithuania 665,000 83
31 7 Dario Barone Italy 153,000 19
31 8 Ugnius Vestertas Lithuania 1,013,000 126
32 1 Miguel Sanchez Spain 40,000 5
32 2 Jon San Juan Alemany Spain 103,000 12
32 3 Daniele Sacchi Italy 255,000 31
32 4 Elio Caferro Italy 150,000 18
32 5 Mihai Cismaru Romania 228,000 28
32 6 Aljosa Kobale Malta 254,000 31
32 7 Caomhan Mclaughlin Ireland 177,000 22
32 8 Mateo Ciglar Croatia 139,000 17
33 1 Daniele Puccio Italy 268,000 33
33 2 Julien Stropoli France 276,000 34
33 3 Abraham Berkovitch Israel 234,000 29
33 4 Francesco Della Sala Italy 30,000 3
33 5 Srdan Milijas Croatia 127,000 15
33 6 Vincenzo Mangiapane Italy 290,000 36
33 7 Daniele Intilisano Italy 119,000 14
33 8 Marko Grujic Serbia 624,000 78
34 1 Jose-Luis Rodriguez France 90,000 11
34 2 Nigel Hartwell England 372,000 46
34 3 Tomas Hrstka Czech Republic 365,000 45
34 4 Angelo Ledda Italy 103,000 12
34 5 Giorgio Bellanca Italy 200,000 25
34 6 Pinhas Belezada Israel 588,000 73
34 7 Cosimo De Gennaro Italy 326,000 40
34 8 Lorenzo Di Blasi Italy 175,000 21
35 1 Alfredo Brancia Italy 186,000 23
35 2 Kristian Holmgren Norway 286,000 35
35 3 Ahmet Canatan 650,000 81
35 4 Ran Shahar Israel 32,000 4
35 5 Dimitrios Anastasakis Greece 409,000 51
35 6 Jonas Engedal Norway 120,000 15
35 7 Gil Preter Israel 246,000 30
35 8 Joona Nyholm Finland 254,000 31
36 1 Nestoras Kakoyiannis Cyprus 178,000 22
36 2 Rocco Taglianetti Italy 462,000 57
36 3 Emmanouil Livanos Greece 376,000 47
36 4 Andris Resevskis Latvia 345,000 43
36 5 Danilo Scevola Italy 571,000 71
36 6 Fabrizio Pillitteri Italy 486,000 60
36 7 Darius Mandi Romania 136,000 17
37 1 Luis Marthino Portugal 400,000 50
37 2 Jiri Novak Czech Republic 304,000 38
37 3 Pancrazio Manni Italy 401,000 50
37 4 Florian Dietrich France 43,000 5
37 5 Patryk Szysz Poland 146,000 18
37 6 Joseph Jouayek Lebanon 152,000 19
37 7 Szymon Politowski Poland 349,000 43
37 8 Luka Urosevic Malta 81,000 10
38 1 Pavel Novikov Cyprus 116,000 14
38 2 Marko Cosic Serbia 605,000 75
38 3 Gianluca Mancuso Italy 107,000 13
38 4 Anargyros Loizos Greece 238,000 29
38 5 Marek Grzeska Poland 545,000 68
38 6 Erik Polluveer Estonia 404,000 50
38 7 Marcello Bona Italy 273,000 34
38 8 Gianmarco Grande Italy 181,000 22
39 1 Onni Huttunen Finland 144,000 18
39 2 Simone Facciponti Italy 183,000 22
39 3 Alessandro Marongiu Italy 359,000 44
39 4 Giovanna Dimartino Italy 97,000 12
39 5 Armando Picozzi Italy 184,000 23
39 6 Dominik Wochnik Poland 535,000 66
39 7 Mihai Nistor Romania 452,000 56
39 8 Robin Kruhai Germany 379,000 47
40 1 Jacek Pustula Poland 139,000 17
40 2 Rasmus Lundstroem Finland 17,000 2
40 3 Ionut Arvatu Romania 355,000 44
40 4 Maria Koutsouki Greece 119,000 14
40 5 Dimitrios Zournatzidis Greece 240,000 30
40 6 Robert Previsic Croatia 361,000 45
40 7 Daniele Renzi Italy 234,000 29
40 8 Sebastian Kotowicz Poland 271,000 33
41 1 Francesco Munafo’ Italy 123,000 15
41 2 Edvinas Gruzdas Lithuania 155,000 19
41 3 Giuseppe Positano Italy 118,000 14
41 4 Gakuto Horiuchi Japan 193,000 24
41 5 Sebastian Mortensen Malta 310,000 38
41 6 Mark Mckenzie England 41,000 5
41 7 Andrea Maiolino Italy 146,000 18
41 8 Laurentiu Avram Romania 174,000 21
42 1 William Gilbert Brazil 154,000 19
42 2 Pawan Thaper England 132,000 16
42 3 Veaceslav Jumir Moldova 577,000 72
42 4 Konstantinos Asgoudakis Greece 786,000 98
42 5 Damian Wojtas Poland 338,000 42
42 6 David Taborsky Czech Republic 558,000 69
42 7 Vilmos Farkas Hungary 264,000 33
42 8 Paulo Pinheiro Portugal 151,000 18
43 1 Daniel Henriques Portugal 102,000 12
43 2 Daniele Solidoro Italy 243,000 30
43 3 Lorian Bellu Romania 192,000 24
43 4 Simone Quadrini Italy 149,000 18
43 5 Michal Procner Poland 125,000 15
43 6 Jakub Chciuk Poland 319,000 39
43 7 Aleksi Heikkinen Finland 94,000 11
43 8 Robert Krzywina Poland 268,000 33
47 1 Piero Formichella Italy 296,000 37
47 2 Giampaolo Puglia Italy 434,000 54
47 3 Andreas Leu Switzerland 376,000 47
47 4 Hugo Loustau France 91,000 11
47 5 Raul Suceava Romania 169,000 21
47 6 Antonino Karman Hungary 217,000 27
47 7 Antonios Koukouras Greece 361,000 45
47 8 Davide Caramia Italy 344,000 43
48 1 Christou Christos Cyprus 220,000 27
48 2 Gianluca Donini Italy 357,000 44
48 3 Dimitrios Marmagkiolis Greece 240,000 30
48 4 Igor Bukowski Poland 341,000 42
48 5 Liwei Wang China 320,000 40
48 6 Nikola Minovic Serbia 501,000 62
48 7 Andrew Cutajar Malta 245,000 31
48 8 Ariel Reidman Israel 205,000 25
49 1 Alina Paliahoshka Belarus 224,000 28
49 2 Stefan Wiesebrock Germany 374,000 46
49 3 Dimitrios Sarris Greece 603,000 75
49 4 Krystian Nalepka Poland 78,000 9
49 5 Salvatore Saracino Italy 92,000 11
49 6 Andy Schink Germany 193,000 24
49 7 Andreas Bjerklund Norway 185,000 23
49 8 Carlo Solazzo England 245,000 31

 

Shuffle Up and Deal 31 May 18:15 by Christoffer

€600 Main Event Day 2
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 (8,000)
Entries: 358/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Battle of Malta hosts Glenn Brown and Jack Bonara have welcomed the Day 2 players in stellar fashion, and the first hand of Day 2 is currently being dealt.

Main Event Day 1g Counts 31 May 17:06 by Richard Hayes

€600 Main Event Day 1g
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 (10,000)
Entries: 68/452
Prize Pool: €1,192,442

Juanyu Liu of China topped 68 qualifiers from Day 1g, with the full counts as follows:-

Position Player Country Chips
1 Junyu Liu China 998‚000
2 Marco D’Amico Italy 835‚000
3 Mark Anthony Vella Malta 708‚000
4 Roar Aspas Norway 664‚000
5 Fausto Gravagna Italy 631‚000
6 Nikola Minovic Montenegro 501‚000
7 Rosario Amico Italy 470‚000
8 Angelo Censabella Italy 453‚000
9 Arnaud Boudet France 447‚000
10 Giampaolo Puglia Italy 434‚000
11 Davide Raschella’ Italy 417‚000
12 Stefano Titola Italy 416‚000
13 Erik Polluveer Estonia 404‚000
14 Pancrazio Manni Italy 401‚000
15 Luke Tatum United Kingdom 400‚000
16 Leocir Carneiro Brazil 374‚000
17 Stefan Wiesebrock Germany 374‚000
18 Nico Marraffa Italy 367‚000
19 Antonio Russello Italy 348‚000
20 Madis Ormisson Estonia 341‚000
21 Alessandro Nocerino Italy 333‚000
22 Cosimo De Gennaro Italy 326‚000
23 Vincenzo Mangiapane Italy 290‚000
24 Zonglei Zhao China 290‚000
25 Kristian Holmgren Sweden 286‚000
26 Anastasios Vourexakis Greece 282‚000
27 Alejandro Asenjo Spain 272‚000
28 Giusepp Di Bella Italy 267‚000
29 Oliver Hutchins United Kingdom 264‚000
30 Sokratis Oikonomou Greece 253‚000
31 Daniele Solidoro Italy 243‚000
32 Georgios Papakonstantinou Greece 239‚000
33 Anargyros Loizos Greece 238‚000
34 Abraham Berkovitch Israel 234‚000
35 Daniele Renzi Italy 234‚000
36 Battista Locati Italy 230‚000
37 Alina Paliahoshka Belarus 224‚000
38 Ruggero Magri’ Italy 221‚000
39 Antonino Karman Italy 217‚000
40 Konstantinos Kertikidis Greece 217‚000
41 Ariel Reidman Israel 205‚000
42 Yujun Kim South Korea 199‚000
43 Iosif Botar Romania 161‚000
44 Jaroslaw Chmiel Poland 160‚000
45 Abilio Da Silva Portugal 157‚000
46 Elio Caferro Italy 150‚000
47 Onni Huttunen Finland 144‚000
48 Jonatan Samuel Sweden 144‚000
49 Marco Zingarelli Italy 136‚000
50 Dimitar Syarov Bulgaria 135‚000
51 Pawan Thaper India 132‚000
52 Ernestas Stalemekas Lithuania 128‚000
53 Giuseppe Positano Italy 118‚000
54 Piotr Wasilewski Poland 111‚000
55 Riamon Taskinen Finland 106‚000
56 Marcin Grudzien Poland 105‚000
57 Angelo Ledda Italy 103‚000
58 Francesco Blasio Italy 100‚000
59 Andrej Duplancic Croatia 100‚000
60 Salvatore Anastasio Italy 97‚000
61 Grazia Caruso Italy 74‚000
62 Samuel Marseiler Germany 56‚000
63 Ozren Cvijanovic Croatia 55‚000
64 David Williams United Kingdom 50‚000
65 Florian Dietrich Germany 43‚000
66 Grzegorz Bartold Poland 42‚000
67 Ran Shahar Israel 32‚000
68 Jacek Goraj Poland 28‚000
Lindgren and Grech Bubble Final Main Event Flight 31 May 16:56 by Richard Hayes

Tournament Room Casino Malta

€600 Main Event Day 1g
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 (10,000)
Entries: 68/452
Prize Pool: €1,192,442

The final flight of the Main Event has just concluded, and Anna Lindgren and Christopher Grech were the unfortunate players to bust during hand for hand play.

On the soft bubble, Grech was all-in in a blind on blind clash.

Christopher Grech: A♦K♣
Opponent: 9♠5♠

Grech had a premium hand, but his opponent was live, and turned a flush on the T♠6♠3♥8♠5♥ runout.

On the stone bubble, Lindgren was all-in for around 130,000 and at risk.

Anna Lindgren: K♦K♥
Opponent: A♣T♣

Lindgren was looking good, but again a flush appeared on the turn to leave the at risk player dead on the 9♣8♣2♦5♣9♥ runout.

Counts of qualifiers, start of Day 2 chip counts and the seating draw will follow shortly.

Cards in the Air in PLO 4/5 Card 31 May 15:19 by Richard Hayes

Battle of Malta Chips

€250 PLO 4/5 Card
Level 4: 200/400 (400)
Entries: 42/53
Prize Pool: €11,459

The €250 PLO 4/5 card is also underway, with 53 entries logged, and late registration open until the start of Level 11.

Players will receive a 20,000 starting stack, and the clock is set to 40-minute levels, with the prize pool currently standing at €11,459.

PokerHouse NLH Underway 31 May 15:16 by Richard Hayes

Battle of Malta Tournament Room

€200 Casino Malta PokerHouse NLH
Level 6: 400/800 (800)
Entries: 79/122
Prize Pool: €19,496

A total of 122 entries thus far, with late registration open until the start of Level 11. Players receive a 20,000 starting stack, with the clock set to 20-minute levels. The prize pool currently stands at €19,496.

Registration Closed in Main Event – €1,186,962 Prize Pool 31 May 15:13 by Richard Hayes

Tournament Room Casino Malta

€600 Main Event Day 1g
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 (10,000)
Entries: 104/452
Prize Pool: €1,186,962

Late registration has closed in the Main Event and the final figures are in.

A total of 452 entries in Day 1g brought the final number to 2,667, creating a monstrous €1,186,962 prize pool. A total of 68 qualifiers are scheduled to progress from Day 1g, with Day 2 at 7 p.m.

Payout information will be confirmed once available, along with counts of the Day 1g qualifiers and the Day 2 seat draw.

 

Galvin Wins Ladies Event; Vestertas and Sarris Top Main Event Flights with Day 2 on Horizon as Prize Pool Tops Seven-Figures 31 May 10:25 by Richard Hayes

Mary Galvin

There was barely a spare chair in the house at Casino Malta on Day 3 of the Battle of Malta 2026 Summer Edition, as hordes of players arrived for another packed schedule of tournaments.

Chips flew in all directions, with the Ladies Event and Days 1e and 1f of the Main Event taking center stage. Irish eyes were smiling, as Mary Galvin emerged as the Ladies Champion, banking €1,970, and a €555 ticket to the OlyBet Queens of Tallinn Event in August, in the process.

In the Main Event, Marian Klitchev of Bulgaria (1,520,000) topped almost 1,000 runners in Day 1e, while Dimitrios Sarris of Greece (603,000) bagged biggest in Day 1f, as the €700,000 guarantee was comfortably exceeded. The final starting flight kicked at 10 a.m. today, May 31, and the prize pool has just topped the seven-figure mark, currently standing at a huge €1,031,523. Day 2 qualifiers will return at 7 p.m., when the final figures and payouts will be known.

There were also side event victories for Richard Burke in the H.O.R.S.E event, and there was a chop between Italian Fabiano Montanaro and Christos Thomas of Greece in the Hyper Turbo.

Another extensive menu of tournaments awaits, and players who do not find a bag for Day 2 of the Main Event can get their teeth into a slate of side events, including a PokerHouse NLH tournament, PLO 4/5 card, and netwin Bounty event. Meanwhile, the €1,100 buy-in Star Yes High Roller event features a huge €200,000 guarantee.

€600 Main Event Days 1e-1f Recap

Battle of Malta Tournament Room

As expected, Day 1e drew the biggest crowd thus far, and the tournament room was a sea of heads, with every table occupied. A total of 991 entries were logged, which meant 149 players qualified for Day 2.

Lithuanian Ugnius Vestertas bagged a seven-figure stack of 1,010,000 to take the overall tournament lead, and he was followed by Ugnius Vestertas of Lithuania (1,010,000) and Brit Robert McAdam (973,000). McAdam has been in hot form in 2026, racking up a string of top-three finishes in major mid-stakes events, and is a name to watch.

In Day 1f, a further 288 entries were collected, and Dimitrios Sarris (603,000) ended up at the front of the queue of 22 qualifiers, followed by Veaceslaw Jumir of Moldova (577,000) and Fabrizio Pillitteri (486,000). Vestertas and Sarris, as with all Day 1 chip leaders, also earned themselves a package to the Battle of Malta Slovakia Edition.

Defending champion Adrian Ziemichod of Poland (462,000) and former champion Dario Barone of Italy (153,000) are in the running for a historic double, while plenty of other notables are in the mix, including Latvian Matiss Celmins (531,000) and Mihai Nistor of Romania (452,000). With the final starting flight still to be completed, 288 players have now qualified for Day 2.

Battle of Malta Spring Edition Champion Adrian Ziemichod

The full counts of the qualifiers from both flights is below:-

End of Day 1e Counts

Position Player Country Chips
1 Ugnius Vestertas Lithuania 1‚010‚000
2 Robert McAdam United Kingdom 973‚000
3 Konstantinos Asgoudakis Greece 786‚000
4 Stefan-Claudiu Ianuszewicz Romania 740‚000
5 Radoslaw Krosnowski Poland 710‚000
6 Sergio Di Ruberto Italy 655‚000
7 Aristeidis Aftias Greece 648‚000
8 Marko Grujic Serbia 624‚000
9 Erik Oestergaard Denmark 616‚000
10 Ziga Klopcic Slovenia 601‚000
11 Pinhas Belezada Israel 588‚000
12 David Taborsky Czech Republic 558‚000
13 Gareth Hamilton United Kingdom 550‚000
14 Francesco Natale Italy 548‚000
15 Houssem Meftahi Tunisia 541‚000
16 Aleksandrs Krumins Latvia 535‚000
17 Matiss Celmins Latvia 531‚000
18 Adrian Ziemichod Poland 462‚000
19 Sebastian Szychulski Poland 459‚000
20 Mihai Nistor Romania 452‚000
21 Masoud Fatollahy Iran 433‚000
22 Andreas Hartl Austria 431‚000
23 Grigorios Archontakis Greece 419‚000
24 Renato Messina Italy 414‚000
25 Dimitrios Anastasakis Greece 409‚000
26 Robin Kruhai Netherlands 379‚000
27 Andreas Leu Switzerland 376‚000
28 Emmanouil Livanos Greece 376‚000
29 Vincenzo Popolo Italy 373‚000
30 Emanuele Amenta Italy 371‚000
31 Christian Sykora Austria 366‚000
32 Franco Scalise Italy 363‚000
33 Gianluca Donini Italy 357‚000
34 Oscar Rossi Italy 356‚000
35 Alessandro Signoriello Italy 350‚000
36 Szymon Politowski Poland 349‚000
37 Andris Resevskis Latvia 345‚000
38 Akser Osak Poland 343‚000
39 Igor Bukowski Poland 341‚000
40 Panteleimon Pontos Greece 341‚000
41 Salvatrice D’Urso Italy 332‚000
42 Dimitrios Stampoultzis Greece 326‚000
43 Christos Tsamatsoulis Greece 323‚000
44 Daniel Gumula Poland 322‚000
45 Itay Barak Israel 316‚000
46 Theodoros Ampelikiotis Greece 315‚000
47 Maurizio Saieva Italy 312‚000
48 Biagio Morciano Italy 306‚000
49 Jiri Novak Czech Republic 304‚000
50 Marjan Mitrovski North Macedonia 301‚000
51 Evangelos Argyris Greece 298‚000
52 Carmelo Capizzi Italy 296‚000
53 Walter Lotter Germany 296‚000
54 Joao Da Silva Portugal 294‚000
55 Marcin Majcher Poland 288‚000
56 Antoan Katsarov Bulgaria 279‚000
57 Stanislav Bronshtein Israel 275‚000
58 Marflene Cricchiola Italy 275‚000
59 Liron Kroani Israel 275‚000
60 Marcello Bona Italy 273‚000
61 Sebastian Kotowicz Poland 271‚000
62 Alberto Petite Alvarez Spain 270‚000
63 Daniele Sacchi Italy 255‚000
64 Fredrick Bratein Norway 254‚000
65 Aljosa Kobale Slovenia 254‚000
66 Joona Nyholm Finland 254‚000
67 Idan Nagauker Israel 250‚000
68 Gil Preter Israel 246‚000
69 Andrew Cutajar Malta 245‚000
70 Craig Lauder United Kingdom 244‚000
71 Marius Negrescu Romania 241‚000
72 Shervin Ghassemlou Iran 240‚000
73 Dimitrios Marmagkiolis Greece 240‚000
74 Jakub Riska Slovakia 239‚000
75 Mihai Cismaru Romania 228‚000
76 Nicola D’Aquaro Italy 226‚000
77 Christou Christos Cyprus 220‚000
78 Andre Haakestad Norway 219‚000
79 Jakub Wujcikowski Poland 217‚000
80 Igor Pasierbek Poland 216‚000
81 Daniel Yerin Israel 207‚000
82 Karen Cohen Kalif Israel 205‚000
83 Giorgio Bellanca Italy 200‚000
84 Maximilian Golle Germany 198‚000
85 Daniela Busmachiu-Constantinescu Romania 195‚000
86 Angelo Vietti Italy 194‚000
87 Gakuto Horiuchi Japan 193‚000
88 Lorian Bellu Romania 192‚000
89 Vito Pizzitola Italy 191‚000
90 Constantin Chincisan Romania 189‚000
91 Sergio Parrinello Italy 186‚000
92 Gianluca Perino Italy 185‚000
93 Armando Picozzi Italy 184‚000
94 Gianmarco Grande Italy 181‚000
95 Sebastiano Belligammi Italy 177‚000
96 Caomhan McLaughlin Ireland 177‚000
97 Gabriel Rymar Poland 177‚000
98 Adam Lawniczak Poland 173‚000
99 Raul Suceava Romania 169‚000
100 Paulo Rorigues Portugal 167‚000
101 David Skoloud Czech Republic 165‚000
102 Marco Maggio Italy 157‚000
103 Edvinas Gruzdas Lithuania 155‚000
104 William Gilbert United Kingdom 154‚000
105 Joseph Jouayek Lebanon 152‚000
106 Paulo Pinheiro Portugal 151‚000
107 Giuseppe Milone Italy 151‚000
108 Simone Quadrini Italy 149‚000
109 Andrea Maiolino Italy 146‚000
110 Patryk Szysz Poland 146‚000
111 Alessandro Cannizzaro Italy 142‚000
112 Tiberiu Florescu Romania 142‚000
113 Lukasz Sen Poland 142‚000
114 Giulio Spampinato Italy 139‚000
115 Carmelo Fangano Italy 133‚000
116 Srdan Milijas Serbia 127‚000
117 Francesco Munafo’ Italy 123‚000
118 Maria Koutsouki Greece 119‚000
119 Mario Fiordelisi Italy 118‚000
120 Marian Klitchev Bulgaria 115‚200
121 Carina Voncken Germany 116‚000
122 Umberto De Cunto Italy 109‚000
123 Oreste Faga Italy 108‚000
124 Jon Alemany Spain 103‚000
125 Giuseppe Ognisanto Italy 101‚000
126 Giovanna Dimartino Italy 97‚000
127 Loreto Enea Italy 92‚000
128 Ioannis Koulopoulos Greece 92‚000
129 Diego Romei Italy 91‚000
130 Markus Dahl Norway 90‚000
131 Jose-Luis Rodriguez Spain 90‚000
132 Vedran Sujkovic Croatia 89‚000
133 Antoine Talvard France 89‚000
134 Luka Urosevic Serbia 81‚000
135 Alexios Messalas Greece 79‚000
136 Krystian Nalepka Poland 78‚000
137 Itzhak Zenati Israel 78‚000
138 Florian Henck Germany 75‚000
139 Ivane Khazaradze Georgia 73‚000
140 Emmanouil Kostakis Greece 68‚000
141 Alexandre Bermon France 53‚000
142 Nigel Stentiford United Kingdom 48‚000
143 Mark McKenzie United Kingdom 41‚000
144 Miguel Sanchez Hernandez Spain 40‚000
145 Francesco Della Sala Italy 30‚000
146 Rasmus Lundstroem Sweden 17‚000
147 Turgay Akin Turkey 15‚000
148 Cristiano Zambonelli Italy 14‚600
149 Antonio Privitera Italy 8‚000

 

End of Day 1f Counts

Position Player Country Chips
1 Dimitrios Sarris Greece 603‚000
2 Veaceslav Jumir Moldova 577‚000
3 Fabrizio Pillitteri Italy 486‚000
4 Erlend Kalstad Norway 479‚000
5 Antonio Leanza Italy 450‚000
6 David Kozma Hungary 422‚000
7 Kaspars Mallons Latvia 309‚000
8 Leandro Cataldo Italy 262‚000
9 Carlo Solazzo Italy 245‚000
10 Kleber Chapon Brazil 204‚000
11 Alfredo Brancia Italy 186‚000
12 Gianfranco Casaluce Italy 179‚000
13 Nestoras Kakoyiannis Cyprus 178‚000
14 Lorenzo Di Blasi Italy 175‚000
15 Francesco Tuzzolino Italy 173‚000
16 Dario Barone Italy 153‚000
17 Daniele Maldonato Italy 146‚000
18 Gennaro Loffredo Italy 142‚000
19 Michal Procner Poland 125‚000
20 Daniele Intilisano Italy 119‚000
21 Aleksi Heikkinen Finland 94‚000
22 Arci Mattia Italy 51‚000

 

Mary Galvin Wins €150 Ladies Event (€1,970)

Battle of Malta 2026 Summer Edition Ladies Event Final Table

The Ladies Event was a big hit as always, and 49 runners created a €6,218 prize pool, with seven places to be paid.

Mary Galvin of Ireland stormed to the trophy, defeating Tania Alparone of Italy heads-up.

The full results are below:-

Place Player Country Prize
1 Mary Galvin Ireland €1‚970
2 Tania Alparone Italy €1‚400
3 Yena Park South Korea €900
4 Pia Fransson Sweden €680
5 Santina Spedalieri Italy €535
6 Michelle Bricknell England €400
7 Kristine Helveit Norway €330

 

Richard Burke Saddles €250 H.O.R.S.E. Trophy (€1,760)

Richard Burke

The H.O.R.S.E event gathered 17 entries, creating a €3,516 prize pool, to be split between the podium finishers.

Richard Burke of the United Kingdom defeated Germany’s Sascha Mann heads-up, with Fabio Miraglia of Italy the other player to cash.

Place Player Country Prize
1 Richard Burke United Kingdom € 1‚760
2 Sascha Manns Germany € 1‚055
3 Fabio Miraglia Italy €700

 

Fabiano Montanaro and Christos Thomas Chop €150 Hyper Turbo (€3,930)

A big field of 164 entries gathered for the final side-event of the day, and Fabiano Montanaro of Italy and Christos Thomas of Greece agreed a heads-up chop, both banking €3,930, with 23 places paid.

The full results are as follows:-

Place Player Country Prize
1 Fabiano Montanaro Italy *€ 3‚930
2 Christos Thomas Greece *€ 3‚930
3 Lazar Stanimirovic Serbia € 2‚100
4 Dimitrios Asgoudakis Greece € 1‚720
5 Samuele Luppino Italy € 1‚380
6 Steven Thompson United Kingdom € 1‚070
7 Paolo Aleo Italy €790
8 Flaviano Cammisuli Italy €580
9 Giuseppe Cusimano Italy €460
10 Gianluca Mancuso Italy €390
11 Ionut-Alexandru Toma Romania €390
12 James Walker United Kingdom €340
13 Jimmy Grenander Sweden €340
14 Peter Buttner Germany €310
15 Andrea Parisi Italy €310
16 Filippos Kasidokostas Greece €280
17 Nicola Dilluvio Italy €280
18 Claudio Barone Italy €250
19 Salvo Petralia Italy €250
20 Lukasz Fraczek Poland €250
21 Davor Mudric Croatia €230
22 Michael Domke Germany €230
23 Antonino Nobile Italy €230

 

*Denotes heads-up chop.

Battle of Malta 2026 Summer Edition Schedule – May 31 2026

Day 2 of the Main Event is the prime attraction today, kicking off at 7 p.m. local time, with six hour-long levels set to be played.

As mentioned, there is a full slate of side events for players to enjoy, with the full schedule listed below. The key events are the Star Yes €1,100 High Roller at 8 p.m., featuring a huge €200,000 guarantee and the €300 netwin Bounty. It is recommended players attend early if travelling from outside St Julian’s, as it is Election Day in Malta and travel obstructions are expected.

Date Time Tournament Buy-In Stack Levels Late Registration
May 31 10:00 NLH BOM ‘Let The Battle Begin’ – Day 1G TURBO – 15% Qualify – Chip Leader gets BOM Slovakia package €530+€70 40‚000 20 min Reg closes at Level 10 (play to 15%)
May 31 11:00 NLH Super Satellite for High Roller (one time) €110+€20 10‚000 20 min Reg closes at Level 10
May 31 14:00 NLH Casino Malta PokerHouse €170+€30 20‚000 20 min Reg closes at Level 10
May 31 15:00 PLO 4/5 Round Each €220+€30 20‚000 20 min Reg closes at Level 8
May 31 18:00 netwin NLH Side Event Bounty €110+€150+€40 30‚000 30 min Play to Level 8
May 31 19:00 NLH BOM ‘Let The Battle Begin’ – Day 2 — — 60 min Play 6 levels
May 31 20:00 Star Yes – High Roller Day 1 €1000+€100 50‚000 30 min Play 10 levels
May 31 22:00 NLH Super Satellite for High Roller (accumulator) €110+€20 10‚000 20 min Reg closes at Level 10

 

Our coverage will start off in earnest from 7 p.m. for Day 2 of the Main Event, but general festival updates will be provided in the meantime, and chip counts of the final Main Event starting flight, and Day 2 seat draw, will be provided as soon as they are available.

The Battle of Malta’s YouTube, Facebook and Instagram channels will also be bringing you all the big moments from the event, so stay tuned for all your coverage as we see who can put themselves in prime position for a tilt at the Battle of Malta 2026 Summer Edition Main Event title.