April 6, 2025
2025 Battle of Malta Spring Edition Day 1e chip leader Clement Kerrien
The final opening flight for the 2025 Battle of Malta Spring Edition €600 Main Event is in the books with France’s Clement Kerrien leading the 37 survivors, who will each be in the money when Day 2 starts at 2 p.m. Kerrien catapulted his 40,000 starting stack into a massive pile of 815,000 in chips. While he will start Day 2 in fifth place, he will have already had a good return on his buy-in as his epic afternoon earned him a €5,000 chip leader bonus.
The final opening flight attracted 242 entries to bring the final figure up to 1,542 entries for a €776,397 prize pool.
Check out the full chip counts from the Day 1e flight below.
| Place | Player | Chips | Big Blinds |
| 1 | Clement Kerrien | 815,000 | 102 |
| 2 | Gaetano Moribondo | 609,000 | 76 |
| 3 | Aristeidis Aftias | 553,000 | 69 |
| 4 | Jannik Bengtsen | 547,000 | 68 |
| 5 | Vincenzo Pinna | 487,000 | 61 |
| 6 | Nikolaos Zacharakis | 428,000 | 54 |
| 7 | Ozren Cvijanovic | 425,000 | 53 |
| 8 | Giuseppe Firetto | 404,000 | 51 |
| 9 | Manish Rawal | 392,000 | 49 |
| 10 | Terence Jordon | 373,000 | 47 |
| 11 | Francesco Serra | 319,000 | 40 |
| 12 | Dariusz Paszkiewicz | 265,000 | 33 |
| 13 | Demetrio Polimeno | 260,000 | 33 |
| 14 | Dario Berisa | 257,000 | 32 |
| 15 | Giovanni Caggia | 257,000 | 32 |
| 16 | Salvatore Agliozzo | 248,000 | 31 |
| 17 | Salvatore Caruso | 240,000 | 30 |
| 18 | Giuseppe Tredici | 215,000 | 27 |
| 19 | Chasan Koula | 212,000 | 27 |
| 20 | Presiyan Tsvetanov | 203,000 | 25 |
| 21 | Gatis Reigass | 200,000 | 25 |
| 22 | Rosario Angelo | 194,000 | 24 |
| 23 | Andrea Cannizzaro | 175,000 | 22 |
| 24 | Paolo Pinazzo | 170,000 | 21 |
| 25 | Domenico Lando | 160,000 | 20 |
| 26 | Adrian Powazka | 153,000 | 19 |
| 27 | Stylianos Kollatos | 148,000 | 19 |
| 28 | Leendert Nederlof | 144,000 | 18 |
| 29 | Wayne Thomas | 143,000 | 18 |
| 30 | Emle Karlen | 130,000 | 16 |
| 31 | Ott Jaakson | 125,000 | 16 |
| 32 | Andreas Vlachos | 119,000 | 15 |
| 33 | Gianluca Donini | 111,000 | 14 |
| 34 | Alex Emil Uppa | 86,000 | 11 |
| 35 | Nigel Stentiford | 65,000 | 8 |
| 36 | Ionut-Cristian Iliescu | 60,000 | 8 |
| 37 | Matiss Celmins | 25,000 | 3 |
