June 1, 2026
Angelo Censabella
€600 Main Event
Level 29: 50,000/100,000 (100,000)
Entries: 24/2,667
Prize Pool: €1,186,962
The full end of day chip counts at the end of Day 3 are below, with Stavros Passias of Greece (10,760,000) leading Italian duo Angelo Censabella (8,880,000) and Daniele Renzi (7,345,000), while Florence Mazet (3,375,00) is the last woman standing.
Mark Vella (4,215,000) is the final home hope still in the mix, while there are three Greeks and five Italians represented in the penultimate day.
| Position | Name | Country | Chips | Blinds |
| 1 | Stavros Passias | Greece | 10,760,000 | 89 |
| 2 | Angelo Censabella | Italy | 8,800,000 | 73 |
| 3 | Daniele Renzi | Italy | 7,345,000 | 61 |
| 4 | Luigi D’Alterio | Italy | 5,460,000 | 41 |
| 5 | Robin Kruhla | Germany | 4,975,000 | 36 |
| 6 | Marko Cosic | Serbia | 4,415,000 | 36 |
| 7 | Georgios Papakonstantinou | Greece | 4,410,000 | 36 |
| 8 | Arnaud Boudet | France | 4,380,000 | 35 |
| 9 | Joao Da Silva | Portugal | 4,230,000 | 35 |
| 10 | Tiberiu Florescu | Romania | 4,215,000 | 35 |
| 11 | Mark Vella | Malta | 4,215,000 | 45 |
| 12 | Igor Pasierbek | Poland | 4,000,000 | 33 |
| 13 | Florence Mazet | France | 3,735,000 | 33 |
| 14 | Gianluca Donini | Italy | 3,715,000 | 31 |
| 15 | Konstantinos Asgoudakis | Greece | 3,240,000 | 30 |
| 16 | Rami Amuri | Latvia | 2,930,000 | 27 |
| 17 | Panteleimon Pontos | Greece | 2,920,000 | 24 |
| 18 | Gareth Hamilton | Ireland | 2,330,000 | 19 |
| 19 | Daniel Yerin | Germany | 2,080,000 | 17 |
| 20 | Tomas Major | Czech Republic | 1,965,000 | 16 |
| 21 | Sebastian Mortensen | Denmark | 1,840,000 | 15 |
| 22 | Alejandro Asenjo | Spain | 1,550,000 | 12 |
| 23 | Danilo Scevola | Italy | 1,165,000 | 9 |
| 24 | Fredrick Bratein | Norway | 800,000 | 6 |
The players will return at 4 p.m. on June 2 for the penultimate day to blinds of 60,000/120,000 (120,000), and play will continue until the final table is reached.
The remaining payouts are as follows:-
| Position | Prize |
| 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 | €11,110 |
| 14-15 | €9,910 |
| 16-17 | €8,720 |
| 18-20 | €7,530 |
| 21-23 | €6,340 |
| 24 | €5,200 |
That concludes our coverage for the day. We will be back tomorrow with a recap of today’s action, while our full coverage of Day 4 of the Main Event, and the side-event action, will start in earnest from 4 p.m. In the meantime, check out The Battle of Malta’s YouTube, Facebook and Instagram channels for all the biggest moments of the festival so far.
