Three tables returned for Day 4 of the €600 Battle of Malta Spring Edition Main Event, hosted by Casino Malta. When the day had ended, only one table remained, with eight players on it. Those eight will return tomorrow, April 10, at 2 p.m. local time for the final day of the BoM Main Event. Among those eight is Giuseppe Rosa, who won the Battle of Malta Spring Edition Main Event in 2022. If he takes the crown, he would be the first two-time Batlle of Malta Main Event champion since the inception of the series.

However, Rosa will be in the middle of the pack when the players return to the Eden Arena at Intercontinental Malta to battle it out. The person who will be eyeing the top prize of €100,000 the most will be chipleader Daniel Maunders, who finished the day with 15,130,000 chips, good for 130 big blinds when play resumes on the final day. Also fighting for the lion’s share of the €913,349 prize pool will be Greece’s Vasileios Zisis, who bagged up the chiplead on Day 2 and carried a big stack throughout the entire tournament before bagging up 14,170,000 chips at the end of Day 4, the only person besides Maunders to bag up an eight-figure stack.

In third, with a huge gap, is Italy’s Alfredo Cuti, who ended up with 5,630,000 chips in his stack, nearly three times less than Zisis. Also on the final table will be Swedish Malta regular Erik Lindqwist (4,815,000), Dutchman Jan-Joost van den Bogert (4,375,000), Italy’s Filippo Busatto (3,685,000) and the short-stacked Nico Frenn from Switzerland (1,965,000), all of whom are guaranteed €11,900 at the least for finishing in eighth.

Final Table Seating

Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Daniel Maunders	United Kingdom	15,130,000	126
2	Erik Lindqwist	Sweden	4,815,000	40
3	Nico Frenn	Switzerland	1,965,000	16
4	Filippo Busatto	Italy	3,685,000	31
5	Vasileios Zisis	Greece	14,170,000	118
6	Giuseppe Rosa	Italy	4,750,000	40
7	Jan-Joost van den Bogert	Netherlands	4,375,000	36
8	Alfredo Cuti	Italy	5,630,000	47

Remaining Payouts

Place	Prize
1	€100,000
2	€76,200
3	€55,300
4	€34,320
5	€26,700
6	€21,050
7	€16,500
8	€11,900

 

Day 4 Recap

However, before the final table was reached, 16 players had to depart from the Main Event. The first to do so were the short-stacked Modestas Kryzanauskas and Andrea Agnoletto, who lost their preflop all-ins near the start of the day. Stefano Munafo was next to go, after his pocket queens lost against the Broadway of Antonino Calabro. Sokratis Papamavridis, Salvatore Lavolpe, and Kristian Dahl also lost their final few chips in preflop confrontations before Nicola Ciraolo jammed his pocket queens into the top pair of Antonino Arigo. The last player to go before the final two tables was the last non-European standing Mehdi Rebai. The Tunesian jammed his king-jack into the aces of Michal Janczarski and could not hit a miracle as he finished in 17th.

Slovakia’s Jakub Bosko had been navigating a short stack for a while at that point and finally got his final 12 big blinds in prelfop, but ran into aces as well. This time, Van den Bogert took the chips and Bosko was the first to leave the final two tables. One of three Greeks left, Dimitrios Gkatzas then jammed his ace-five into the sixes of Rosa and could not hit before Marko Lukso failed to hit his flopped flush draw against the pair of Busatto and exited in 14th.

After four double-ups for all-in players, Polish player Michal Janczarski lost a preflop flip for his final 12 big blinds and was shortly followed by start-of-day chipleader Rasmus Sepping, who knew a volatile day before losing a flip to then-chipleader Van der Bogert for 12 big blinds as well. The final 11 players went on a dinner break, and not long after they returned Calabro finished in tenth after losing the classic ace-king versus queens against Zisis. The unofficial final table bubble was Arigo, who jammed his second pair into the overpair of Maunders.

The unofficial final table started with one ultimate short stack, Fotios Ntamaris. Ntamaris tripled up on one of the first hands of the final table and seemed to be back in contention, but not much later he got his top pair in against Maunder’s two pair on the turn and failed to hit the river to become the official final table bubble.

The eight players who remained then bagged up and will return tomorrow at 2 p.m. for a cards-up live-streamed final table. They will continue with blinds at 60,000/120,000 with a 120,000 big blind ante and play will not stop before a champion is crowned.

The live blog will operate at a 30-minute delay tomorrow in order to not spoil the live stream, so check back in at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow afternoon for full coverage of the finale of the 2024 Battle of Malta Spring Edition Main Event.