Ivaylo Eftimov Earns €10K for Day 1c Chip Lead

The €600 buy-in Day 1c of the 2024 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition Main Event at Casino Malta and the Eden Arena at the InterContinental Hotel Malta was a massive success and the largest opening flight thus far. A total of 533 runners battled it out in a marathon of a day, and 80 players (15 percent) advanced to Sunday’s Day 2 already in the money.

Bulgaria’s Ivalylo Eftimov earned the €10,000 chip leader bonus for Day 1c after parlaying his 40,000 in chips into 817,000 to squeeze past Malta’s James Paris who earned a €5,000 bonus for second place after bagging 804,000. Georgia’s Ivane Khazaradze was a bit behind this group but earned €3,000 for finishing with a third-place stck of 681,000.

This trio is behind the Day 1a chip leader Humberto Lopez Galindo (1,146,000) as well as Day 1a chip millionaire Michael Kim Falcon (1,106,000).

Check out the full chip counts from the Day 1c flight below:

	Name	Chips
1	Ivaylo Eftimov	817,000
2	James Paris	804,000
3	Ivane Khazaradze	681,000
4	Itzhak Dagmi	660,000
5	Alessandro Siena	615,000
6	Eirik Presterud	600,000
7	Dario Berisa	585,000
8	Quentin Balique	566,000
9	Matija Grgic	526,000
10	Nils Jall	519,000
11	Jordi Ruiz Ribatallada	470,000
12	Marius Iftimia	465,000
13	Angelo Mirabella	449,000
14	Marius Negucioiu	430,000
15	Angelos Valilis	416,000
16	Luca Quilichini	415,000
17	Mario Sostar	415,000
18	Eugen Zogu	404,000
19	Peter Kamaras	399,000
20	Min Guk Kim	391,000
21	Valentin Oberhauser	363,000
22	Emmanouil Zacharakis	358,000
23	Cameron Sinclair	340,000
24	Argyrios Matzinos	302,000
25	Fabrizio Petroni	300,000
26	Robert Anscombe	295,000
27	Giuseppe Azzaro	293,000
28	Lucien Jouanneau	293,000
29	Milos Matic	287,000
30	Luca Delrio	265,000
31	Marko Cosic	264,000
32	Vladan Blagojevic	261,000
33	Marco Basta	250,000
34	John Hall	242,000
35	Mathias Jordi	235,000
36	Marko Luksa	235,000
37	Koen Meutstege	230,000
38	Karol Szczawinski	228,000
39	Lars Sommer	221,000
40	Vito Burgio	214,000
41	Benjamin Lysebo	202,000
42	Grigorios Thanos	198,000
43	Gorjan Jakimovski	195,000
44	Ippazio Manno	191,000
45	Linda Nguyen	184,000
46	Stein Naerland	181,000
47	Helder Correia	180,000
48	Ruggero Magri’	177,000
49	Michal Wisniewski	176,000
50	Uladzimir Luchkou	169,000
51	Theo Schmitt	155,000
52	George Georgiou	151,000
53	Maruen Zormati	150,000
54	Dario Pieruzzini	148,000
55	Viorel-Gabriel Gavrila	126,000
56	Konstantinos Michail	126,000
57	Gino Tolone	126,000
58	Chuc Gia Khuu	125,000
59	Tiziano Colona	121,000
60	Chris Da-Silva	121,000
61	Anargyros Loizos	116,000
62	Daiva Byrne	115,000
63	Mateusz Stanielewicz	97,000
64	Mark Vella	96,000
65	Giordano Contu	95,000
66	Mitchell Hynam	95,000
67	Samuel Dray	89,000
68	Stefano Boi	87,000
69	Toni Ravnak	87,000
70	Fredric Lydersen	83,000
71	Sebastian Skurzynski	82,000
72	Soner Vanelderen	80,000
73	Richard De Freitas	75,000
74	Kristian Hagevik	73,000
75	Morten Norland	73,000
76	Ovidiu-Dorin Barna	71,000
77	Minh Diep	59,000
78	Angelo Virde	41,000
79	Jose Cardoze	31,000
80	Nikolaos Iakovidis	22,000