What it day it has been. The action began with 36 hopefuls hunting to join the final table of nine players from the field of 5,799 entries in the record-breaking 2024 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition Main Event.

The defending champion Vasileios Zisis from Greece was at or near the top of the chip counts and ended the day in a position to do the unthinkable in winning back-to-back. Sporting a sponsored Novibet shirt, Zisis’s dominations seemed to have no bounds, and, of course, it didn’t hurt to win a coin flip or two including delivering a cooler to Marco Arcodia to send his opponent to the rail on the final table bubble. It was a long day lasting more than 13 hours, but Zisis has been there before and held his composure in the spring to win the €100,000 top prize. Now he is in line to win triple his last win with a €300,800 top prize on the line.

Zisis has more than double the chips of his nearest competitor in the United Kingdom’s Shervin Ghassemlou who ended the day with 32,150,000. Alexandru Fracasanu, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Alessandro Siena, Pasquale Gregorio, Ivaylo Eftimov, Davide Iannaco, and Cosme Gomez Martinez all had their ups and downs throughout the day before earning their spot on the televised final table starting on Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 2 p.m. with the broadcast beginning 30 minutes later across a variety of The Battle of Malta channels hosted by this author Jason Glatzer.

Blinds will begin on Wednesday with the conclusion of blinds at 300,000/600,000 with a 600,000 big blind ante. We will share more about the Main Event in the morning.

End-of-Day 4 Chip Counts

Position	Name	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Vasileios Zisis	Greece	65,300,000	109
2	Shervin Ghassemlou	England	32,150,000	54
3	Alexandru Farcasanu	Romania	25,250,000	42
4	Kyriakos Papadopoulos	Greece	20,200,000	34
5	Alessandro Siena	Italy	18,400,000	31
6	Pasquale Gregorio	Italy	13,800,000	23
7	Ivaylo Eftimov	Bulgaria	13,650,000	23
8	Davide Iannaco	Italy	10,075,000	17
9	Cosme Gomez Martinez	Spain	9,550,000	16
Total			208,375,000	349
Average			23,152,778	39

 

Final Table Seat Draw

Seat	Name	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Alexandru Farcasanu	Romania	25,250,000	42
2	Pasquale Gregorio	Italy	13,800,000	23
3	Kyriakos Papadopoulos	Greece	20,200,000	34
4	Cosme Gomez Martinez	Spain	9,550,000	16
5	Alessandro Siena	Italy	18,400,000	31
6	Davide Iannaco	Italy	10,075,000	17
7	Shervin Ghassemlou	England	32,150,000	54
8	Vasileios Zisis	Greece	65,300,000	109
9	Ivaylo Eftimov	Bulgaria	13,650,000	23

 

Final Table Payouts

The final nine players will earn at least €9,290 with Wednesday’s 2024 Battle of Malta Main Event champion securing a whopping €300,800 top prize. Check out all of the payouts below:

Place	Prize
1	€300,800
2	€210,800
3	€100,800
4	€82,300
5	€54,100
6	€33,100
7	€22,200
8	€11,500
9	€9,290