Makejev Leads 24 Into Day 4 as Four Champions Crowned at Battle of Malta

The biggest day in Maltese poker is just a day away, and Monday helped set the stage with another massive day at the 2026 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition. Casino Malta and the adjoining InterContinental Hotel Malta in St. Julian’s brought the 2026 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition to the brink of its crescendo, with the most prestigious poker event on the island inching closer to a champion with every hand dealt.

By the time the lights dimmed on Day 3 of the Main Event, defending champion Candido Gabriele Cappiello had been sent to the rail, a monster €2.4 million prize pool was officially locked in for 24 survivors, and Estonia’s Anton Makejev had piled up 14,050,000 chips to sit alone at the top of the mountain heading into Tuesday’s Day 4.

Around him, four completed side events had crowned their champions, the €1,100 StarYes NLH High Roller had smashed its guarantee to bits and added a third day to its schedule, and the €450 Novibet Bounty Cuatro had sent 49 hunters and their bounties into a Day 2 with blood in the water. Every player who survived Day 3 of the Main Event has locked up at least €8,950, with €227,835 waiting for the last one standing. Tuesday’s penultimate day will be filmed live, without delay or hole cards on the Battle of Malta social media channels hosted by poker.pro and Battle of Malta host Glenn Brown.

The action will play down to a final table with even bigger money on the line. Wednesday’s final table will be hosted by poker.pro Head of Content Jason Glatzer, alongside guests throughout the day including charismatic poker streamer Bert “GirafGanger” Stevens.

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€600 BOM Main Event: Cappiello Falls, Makejev Leads 24 Into Day 4 for €227,835

Day 3 of the €600 BOM Main Event was supposed to be Candido Cappiello's day if things went to plan, as they did last year when he won the 2025 Battle of Malta Summer Edition for €225,770. The defending BoM Autumn champion had entered Sunday's play with serious chip firepower, and after a 5,368-entry field produced a €2,413,281 prize pool, the stage looked set for an historic back-to-back run. Instead, Cappiello fell in 71st place, collecting €5,450 for his efforts. Italy's Gaspare Sposato, who had led the entire field heading into Day 3, also hit the rail, finishing 139th. The day was ruthless, and when the dust settled, just 24 players had survived to bag chips for Tuesday's Day 4.

Leading the way into Day 4 is Estonia's Anton Makejev, who has amassed a commanding 14,050,000-chip stack. Makejev has some experience in lower-stakes tournaments in his home country; however, he is unknown on the international stage, making this deep run in one of Europe's most prestigious poker series all the more remarkable. He is on track for his first five-figure score, with a shot at the biggest payday of his poker career. Every player who bags for Day 4 has already locked up at least €8,950, with €227,835 at the top for the eventual champion.

Close behind Makejev at 13,950,000 is Greece's Marios Kapiris, with Poland's Jakub Skurzynski third at 13,000,000. Czech Republic's Tereza Vernerova holds fourth with 12,050,000, and England's Ryan Sweeney rounds out the top five with 11,500,000. KKPoker Ambassador Jon Kyte of Norway is still alive with 2,300,000, representing the community heading into the final stretch. Players return to a 200,000 big blind on Tuesday.

Among the Day 3 money finishers, poker.pro friend Johan Karlsson of Sweden closed out in 134th place, earning €3,450 in the process. Well played, Johan.

Tuesday's Day 4 will be filmed in real time, with hole cards hidden from Glenn Brown and guests, and will conclude when an official final table is reached.

Day 4 Chip Counts

€600 buy-in | 5,368 entries | 24 players remaining

Position	Player	Country	Chips	BBs
1	Anton Makejev	Estonia	14,050,000	70
2	Marios Kapiris	Greece	13,950,000	70
3	Jakub Skurzynski	Poland	13,000,000	65
4	Tereza Vernerova	Czech Republic	12,050,000	60
5	Ryan Sweeney	England	11,500,000	58
6	Alessandro De Michele	Italy	11,275,000	56
7	James Malatynski	England	10,975,000	55
8	Marco Lopez Coronado Domingo	Spain	10,400,000	52
9	Ofer Tadmor	Israel	9,650,000	48
10	Emmanouil Chalkiotis	Greece	9,600,000	48
11	Casper Jensen	Denmark	9,500,000	48
12	Vasileios Tsaknis	Greece	9,300,000	47
13	De-Han Kim	South Korea	9,275,000	46
14	Shai Arbel	Israel	8,600,000	43
15	Lulei Hu	China	6,900,000	35
16	Gabriele Nuzzo	Italy	6,350,000	32
17	Paschalis Papadopoulos	Greece	5,275,000	26
18	Dor Itah	Israel	4,225,000	21
19	Ivane Khazaradze	Georgia	4,100,000	21
20	Jaime Lozano Diaz	Portugal	3,850,000	19
21	Vittorio Bevilacqua	Italy	3,175,000	16
22	Rosario Saddemi	Italy	2,500,000	13
23	Jon Kyte	Norway	2,300,000	12
24	Stefano Gianas	Italy	2,275,000	11

Day 3 Payouts

€600 buy-in | 5,368 entries | €2,413,281 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
25	Yuri Cornello	Italy	€8,950
26	Lorenzo Angeletti	Italy	€8,950
27	Imero John Sendar	Netherlands	€8,950
28	Giuseppe Maria Signorelli	Italy	€8,200
29	Maicol Darrigo	Italy	€8,200
30	Adrian Ziemichod	Poland	€8,200
31	Daniel Mar Palsson	Iceland	€8,200
32	Kajetan Stanislav Renke	Poland	€7,550
33	Shimon Mishel Benaim	Israel	€7,550
34	Jan-Joost Wisse Van Den Bogert	Netherlands	€7,550
35	Vikram Digpal	England	€7,550
36	Ioannis Nanos	Greece	€7,550
37	Roi Dadon	Israel	€7,550
38	Ivan Sposato	Italy	€7,550
39	Antoni Perera Batlle	Spain	€7,550
40	Darren Charles Harbinson	England	€7,000
41	Domenico Casamassima	Italy	€7,000
42	Jeremy Bametz	France	€7,000
43	Andrea Savasto	Italy	€7,000
44	Idan Osteraicher	Israel	€7,000
45	Salvatore Angelo Crisafulli	Switzerland	€7,000
46	Enrico Olivieri	Italy	€7,000
47	Evangelos Argyris	Greece	€7,000
48	Generalov Konstantin	Russia	€6,450
49	Georgios Katsakos	Greece	€6,450
50	Ashley Walter Pearce	England	€6,450
51	Danut Florin Chisu	Romania	€6,450
52	Marcell Oliver Gottshalk	England	€6,450
53	David Keuftedjian	United States	€6,450
54	Ivan Bekavac	Croatia	€6,450
55	Nikolaos Skremmydas	Greece	€6,450
56	Domenico La Ferla	Italy	€5,950
57	Antonino Milazzo	Italy	€5,950
58	Shervin Oliver Ghassemlou	England	€5,950
59	Edison Salobehaj	Albania	€5,950
60	Sebastian Andrzej Kotowicz	Poland	€5,950
61	Dean Anthony Connolly	Italy	€5,950
62	Antonino Crimaldi	Italy	€5,950
63	Liran Emil Levinovitz	Israel	€5,950
64	Gianluca Scarpantoni	Italy	€5,450
65	Anastasios Vardalis	Greece	€5,450
66	Gypakis Spyridon	Greece	€5,450
67	Kamil Oskar Lempe	Poland	€5,450
68	Davide Muccini	Italy	€5,450
69	Santo Sidoti	Italy	€5,450
70	Nathan Marie P Grossmann	Belgium	€5,450
71	Candido Gabriele Cappiello	Italy	€5,450
72	Luka Sabo	Croatia	€5,000
73	Per Andreas Gustafsson	Sweden	€5,000
74	Yehuda Dayan	Israel	€5,000
75	Christof Birnbacher	Austria	€5,000
76	Philip Trevor Butt	England	€5,000
77	Chengzhou Zhou	China	€5,000
78	Sebastian Lund Mortensen	Malta	€5,000
79	Ange Lilian Iwanesko	France	€5,000
80	Traianos Alexandros Ntavoutis	Greece	€4,600
81	Anonymous	Romania	€4,600
82	Gleb Cherevati	Hungary	€4,600
83	Joseph Rhys Sheppard	England	€4,600
84	Antonino Leotta	Italy	€4,600
85	Georgios Chatzinas	Greece	€4,600
86	Vincent Patrick Smith	Ireland	€4,600
87	Cristiano Zambonelli	Italy	€4,600
88	Stefan Fernandez Wiesebrock	Germany	€4,600
89	Atilla Markovci	Ukraine	€4,600
90	Adrian Thomas Vogt	Switzerland	€4,600
91	Panagiotis Petrou	Greece	€4,600
92	Andrei Makavets	Belarus	€4,600
93	Hendrik Kwiatkowski	Germany	€4,600
94	Raphael Wimmer	Austria	€4,600
95	Lee Micheal Mulligan	England	€4,600
96	Marco Ferddinand Carolina Herman	Netherlands	€4,200
97	Karl Eric Sandoff	Sweden	€4,200
98	Rolf Peter Johansson	Sweden	€4,200
99	Bachana Shengelia	Georgia	€4,200
100	Iraklis Manikaros	Greece	€4,200
101	Benjamin Simon Dunevein	England	€4,200
102	Pim Van Wassenberg	Netherlands	€4,200
103	Theodoros Ampelikiotis	Greece	€4,200
104	Chuc Gia Khuu	England	€4,200
105	Andrew Nicholas Edwin Fleming	England	€4,200
106	Chiril Liuticov	Moldova	€4,200
107	Yehuda Yosef	Israel	€4,200
108	Elad Eli Biton	Israel	€4,200
109	Tomas Dailidonis	Lithuania	€4,200
110	Stanislas Joseph Robert Prigent	France	€4,200
111	Genzo Vlaemynck	Belgium	€4,200
112	Orestis Kanakopoulos	Greece	€3,800
113	Afshin Alikhani	Norway	€3,800
114	Pablo Garcia Alba	Spain	€3,800
115	Evangelos Stellas	Greece	€3,800
116	Bo Philip Dante William Berggren Cole	Sweden	€3,800
117	Marc Sanz Clausin	Spain	€3,800
118	Nikolaos Mastrantonas	Greece	€3,800
119	Antonio Jesus Torres Villadiego	Spain	€3,800
120	Francesco D'armi	Italy	€3,800
121	Dimitrios Angeletopoulos	Greece	€3,800
122	Kamil Piotr Stanislawski	Poland	€3,800
123	Giuseppe Alfano	Italy	€3,800
124	Borca Horatiu	Romania	€3,800
125	Aram Arakelyan	Armenia	€3,800
126	Adrian-Lucian Duca	Romania	€3,800
127	Fabio Meloni	Italy	€3,800
128	Nikolaos Kontogeorgopoulos	Greece	€3,450
129	Robin Enss	Germany	€3,450
130	Kristian Omholt Dahl	Norway	€3,450
131	Torben Rauer	Germany	€3,450
132	Luigi Andrea Shehadeh	Italy	€3,450
133	Sami Aleksi Pulliainen	Finland	€3,450
134	Johan Karlsson	Sweden	€3,450
135	Cristian-Mugurel Tamas	Romania	€3,450
136	Andrej Desset	Slovakia	€3,450
137	Grzegorz Jakub Reczko	Poland	€3,450
138	Florian Keller	Germany	€3,450
139	Georgios Garnelis	Greece	€3,450
140	Davids Akopjancs	Latvia	€3,450
141	Erik Lindqwist	Sweden	€3,450
142	Kaido Kuusemae	Estonia	€3,450
143	Vytautas Aganauskas	Lithuania	€3,450
144	Michal Jakub Goral	Poland	€3,450
145	Pietro Vittorio Annibale Pellegrino	Italy	€3,450
146	Nicolaas Carlo Wolters	Netherlands	€3,450
147	Gianluca Donini	Italy	€3,450
148	Claudio Filipe Mota Brito Rocha	Portugal	€3,450
149	Dimitrios Kleitsogiannis	Greece	€3,450
150	Blasko Sarcevic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	€3,450
151	Lukman Islam	Bangladesh	€3,450
152	Georgios Ampatzidis	Greece	€3,100
153	Emmanouil Asgoudakis	Greece	€3,100
154	Alejandro Garcia Asenjo	Spain	€3,100
155	Stavros Passias	Greece	€3,100
156	Vincenzo Proietto Popolo	Italy	€3,100
157	Petros Daktylidis	Greece	€3,100
158	Valentina Galeandro	Italy	€3,100

Jonny Tang Wins the €180 CoinMasters NLH

Italy's Jonny Tang topped a field of 484 players in the €180 CoinMasters NLH to claim the title and €9,620 in prize money. The two-day event smashed its €50,000 guarantee, reaching a €68,244 prize pool. Gianpaolo Scatigna finished as runner-up for €7,130, while Estonia's Egon Kaljulaid claimed third for €5,010.

€180 buy-in | 484 entries | €68,244 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Jonny Tang	Italy	€9,620
2	Gianpaolo Scatigna	Italy	€7,130
3	Egon Kaljulaid	Estonia	€5,010
4	Matthew Cooledge	England	€4,640
5	Kristaps Deksnis	Latvia	€4,380
6	Phillip O Malley	England	€4,240
7	Lorenzo Pannunzi	Italy	€3,670
8	Eldar Fishelson	Israel	€3,040
9	Erlend Kalstad	Norway	€2,235
10	Marco D'amico	Italy	€1,030
11	Athanasios Kostouros	Greece	€1,030
12	Merav Yamner	Israel	€890
13	Thomas Buehler	Switzerland	€890
14	Joel Baxter	Ireland	€780
15	Jerome Green	England	€780
16	Antonino Paratore	Italy	€700
17	Andrew Wright	England	€700
18	Katariina Ingerma	Estonia	€630
19	Meir Chen	Israel	€630
20	Patrick West	England	€630
21	Darren Knaggs	England	€570
22	Edward Cherrie	England	€570
23	Salvatore Giliberti	Italy	€570
24	Carmine Salvioli	Italy	€500
25	Dimitrios Kalyvas	Greece	€500
26	Danil Tretiak	Ukraine	€500
27	Christopher Clements	Australia	€500
28	Viesturs Osis	Latvia	€430
29	Michal Krzyminski	Poland	€430
30	Gary Wilson	England	€430
31	Niklas Libergren	Netherlands	€430
32	Alistair Bone	England	€360
33	Giuseppe Castaldi	Malta	€360
34	Tomas Dailidonis	Lithuania	€360
35	Sari Assaf	Israel	€360
36	Filippo Moncada	Italy	€360
37	Georgios Kostakis	Greece	€360
38	Ian Holwill	England	€360
39	Giuseppe Trani	Italy	€360
40	Luis Alvarez Barajas	United States	€310
41	Tsvi Cohen	Israel	€310
42	Davide Abbate	Italy	€310
43	Justin Kalvari	Canada	€310
44	Kaidar Viikman	Estonia	€310
45	Rimantas Simonavicius	Lithuania	€310
46	Jan Dziedzc	Poland	€310
47	Danny Toft	England	€310
48	Lior Leibovici	Romania	€310
49	Filip Filipovic	Austria	€310
50	Jelka Andelic	Italy	€310
51	Adhurim Llajaj	Albania	€310
52	Marcello Genna	Italy	€310
53	Sebastian Patyk	Poland	€310
54	Francois Rotolo	Italy	€310
55	Maxine Cherrie	England	€310
56	John Paterson	England	€290
57	Karen Jackson	England	€290
58	Massimo Giangrande	Italy	€290
59	Gulati Saurabh	Australia	€290
60	Antoine Gritz	France	€290
61	Erik Martin Johansson	Sweden	€290
62	Gary Morgan	England	€290
63	Giovanni Ceccarelli	Italy	€290

€1,100 StarYes NLH High Roller Adds Third Day After 583-Entry Field Decimates Guarantee

The €1,100 StarYes NLH High Roller was supposed to guarantee €300,000. Instead, a massive 583-entry field turned up to send the prize pool to €548,020, an 83% overshoot that forced the event to add a third day to its schedule. Day 2 played out on Monday and 31 players bagged chips for Tuesday's final day, with action resuming at 5 p.m. Greece's Filippos Kasidokostas leads the way with 3,145,000. Italy's Diego De Martino sits second at 2,410,000, and Israel's Rami Bazak is third with 1,805,000. The three previous top stacks from Day 1, Matteo Ricco, Antonio Giunta and Rami Suleiman, all made it through but dropped in the standings after a big Day 2.

€1,100 buy-in | 583 entries | €548,020 prize pool

Day 3 Chip Counts

€1,100 buy-in | 583 entries | 31 players remaining

Position	Player	Country	Chips	BBs
1	Filippos Kasidokostas	Greece	3,145,000	79
2	Diego De Martino	Italy	2,410,000	60
3	Rami Bazak	Israel	1,805,000	45
4	Matteo Ricco	Italy	1,650,000	41
5	Giovanni Nava	Italy	1,525,000	38
6	Alexandru Popa	Romania	1,405,000	35
7	Antonio Tommaso Giunta	Italy	1,335,000	33
8	Taago Tamm	Estonia	1,180,000	30
9	Rami Sami Suleiman	Canada	1,075,000	27
10	Roberto Di Giuseppe	Italy	1,065,000	27
11	Stavros Passias	Greece	945,000	24
12	Silvio Domingues Costa	Portugal	920,000	23
13	Gunnar Lie	Norway	850,000	21
14	Edgar Trdatian	Israel	800,000	20
15	Vincent Patrick Smith	Ireland	750,000	19
16	Imran Salimbhai Bhojani	India	705,000	18
17	Luca Piso	Italy	680,000	17
18	Gianmarco Grande	Italy	675,000	17
19	Mathias Bayer	Germany	595,000	15
20	Tamer Halabi	Israel	590,000	15
21	Iounut Alexandru Decher	Romania	575,000	14
22	Damien Gallagher	Ireland	575,000	14
23	Luis Andres Alvarez Barajas	United States	520,000	13
24	Matteo Montanari	Italy	520,000	13
25	Riccardo Saraniero	Italy	515,000	13
26	Marius-Marcel Popescu	Romania	475,000	12
27	Charalampos Zogas	Greece	405,000	10
28	Niki Petrov Pavlov	Bulgaria	380,000	10
29	Kent Ove Roeed	Norway	350,000	9
30	Martin Bartos	Slovakia	335,000	8
31	Maksim Petrov	Estonia	315,000	8

Day 2 eliminated players finishing in the money:

Place	Player	Country	Prize
32	Yoni Yona Beleli	Israel	€2,450
33	Toni Ravnak	Czech Republic	€2,450
34	Flavio Deni	Italy	€2,450
35	Konstantinos Kertikidis	Greece	€2,450
36	David Elhanan Lior Torgeman	Israel	€2,450
37	Omer Attar	Israel	€2,450
38	Daniel Yossef Zadok	Israel	€2,450
39	Eduard Burd	Israel	€2,450
40	Michele Guerrini	Italy	€2,150
41	Alessandro Comi	Italy	€2,150
42	Hannes Theo Daniel	Germany	€2,150
43	Domenico D'Isanto	Italy	€2,150
44	Kevin David Hart	England	€2,150
45	Guido Pieraccini	Italy	€2,150
46	Daniele Maldonato	Italy	€2,150
47	Michele D'amico	Italy	€2,150
48	Jacob Yaniv Alfi	Israel	€2,150
49	Gil Preter	Israel	€2,150
50	Ziga Klopcic	Slovenia	€2,150
51	Mario Menicanin	Croatia	€2,150
52	Thomas Noske	Germany	€2,150
53	Gypakis Spyridon	Greece	€2,150
54	David James Harris	England	€2,150
55	Pim Van Wassenberg	Netherlands	€2,150
56	Elad Eli Biton	Israel	€1,900
57	Scott Berko	England	€1,900
58	Dimitrios Kilintaris	Greece	€1,900
59	Amanda Jane Stock	England	€1,900
60	Dimitrios Anastasakis	Greece	€1,900
61	Robert Rudolf Rohr	Germany	€1,900
62	Sofiya Sipakova	Belarus	€1,900
63	Elia Salerno	Italy	€1,900
64	Andrea Tedesco	Italy	€1,900
65	Fotios Ntamaris	Greece	€1,900
66	Idan Levy	Romania	€1,900
67	Clement Jacky Bonnant	France	€1,900
68	Massimilano Lucchetti	Italy	€1,900
69	Ghays El Shami	Canada	€1,900
70	Dennis Soerdal Haarberg	Norway	€1,900
71	Lior Sahar	Israel	€1,900
72	Dawid Wiktor Smolka	Poland	€1,700
73	Nikolaos Theocharis	Greece	€1,700
74	Dimitrios Sarris	Greece	€1,700
75	Jordan Bertrand Manuel Dumas	France	€1,700
76	Francesco La Scala	Italy	€1,700
77	Mike Marcel Maas	Germany	€1,700
78	Maciej Krzysztof Toma	Poland	€1,700
79	Szilvia Popper	Hungary	€1,700
80	Liron Shapira	Israel	€1,700
81	Alex Iannello	Italy	€1,700
82	Jos Pieter Gerhardus Ten Have	Netherlands	€1,700
83	Mateusz Andrezej Kaszynski	Poland	€1,700
84	Florian Andre Andre Ribouchon	France	€1,700
85	Konstantinos Basinas	Greece	€1,700
86	Pedro Antonio Gines Esteo	Spain	€1,700
87	Claudio Benedikt Mueller	Switzerland	€1,700

Elisabeth Morgan Wins the €150 NLH Ladies Event

England's Elisabeth Morgan topped a 139-entry field in the €150 NLH Ladies Event to claim the title and €3,510 in prize money. The event generated a €17,639 prize pool. Germany's Sigrid Puetz finished as runner-up for €2,590, while Malta's Marianne Camilleri claimed third for €1,930.

€150 buy-in | 139 entries | €17,639 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Elisabeth Morgan	England	€3,510
2	Sigrid Puetz	Germany	€2,590
3	Marianne Camilleri	Malta	€1,930
4	Monica Montanari	Italy	€1,450
5	June Jenkins	England	€1,100
6	Maria Barbieri Cardoso	Portugal	€840
7	Maria Borg	Malta	€660
8	Loredana Parisi	Italy	€530
9	Grazia Coppola	Italy	€430
10	Lisa Mcnamara	England	€360
11	Valeria Perino	Italy	€310
12	Benedetta Ruggieri	Italy	€310
13	Sofia Chatzikonstantinou	Greece	€270
14	Federica Aiello	Italy	€270
15	Raffaella Contento	Italy	€270
16	Elaine Caruana	Malta	€240
17	Roberta Buonsante	Italy	€240
18	Paola Bonanno	Italy	€240
19	Jody Hopkins	England	€220
20	Anna Rizzo	Italy	€220

Gianni Pireddu Wins the €200 Beer Poker Tour

Italy's Gianni Pireddu emerged victorious in the €200 Beer Poker Tour, besting a 417-entry field that shattered the €50,000 guarantee on the way to a €66,637 prize pool. The top five players struck a deal before Pireddu went on to win outright and claim €9,800.

Czech Republic's Frantisek Demke finished runner-up for €6,090, and Germany's Michael Bludau was third for €6,230. Note: the official payout structure shows a non-ascending order in positions 2-5, listed here exactly as the official results provide them.

€200 buy-in | 417 entries | €66,637 prize pool

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Gianni Pireddu	Italy	€9,800*
2	Frantisek Demke	Czech Republic	€6,090*
3	Michael Bludau	Germany	€6,230*
4	Peter Cornelis Vermaas	Netherlands	€6,630*
5	Gregor Larsson	Sweden	€6,470*
6	Istvan Imre Fabriczy	Hungary	€2,840
7	Igor Trajkovski	North Macedonia	€2,140
8	Michael Clayton	England	€1,520
9	Oleg Drews	Germany	€1,220
10	Jaroslaw Kamil Falkowski	Poland	€1,000
11	Dillan Patel	England	€1,000
12	Corrado Conti	Italy	€880
13	Maurizio Fringuelli	Italy	€880
14	Joao Carlos Lourenco De Oliveira	Portugal	€760
15	Alexis Michael Philippe Francis Roger	France	€760
16	Alexandros Papadopulos	Greece	€680
17	Nissan Kahlon	Israel	€680
18	Alexander Ing Geischlager	Austria	€620
19	Neill James Kelly	England	€620
20	Mnuel Valenzia	Italy	€620
21	Petru Fruntes	Romania	€560
22	Harcharan Dogra Dogra	Spain	€560
23	Francesco Natale	Italy	€560
24	Amir Bonder	Israel	€480
25	Giovanni Gagliardo	Italy	€480
26	Martin Klaar	Estonia	€480
27	Alkan Aydingoez	Germany	€480
28	Vedad Kovac	Bosnia and Herzegovina	€420
29	Ardi Valgemae	Estonia	€420
30	Alari Raid	Estonia	€420
31	Kai Mikael Kinnari	Sweden	€420
32	Francesco Policastro	Italy	€360
33	Alexander Maximilian Regler	Germany	€360
34	Edina Timea Nyikos	Hungary	€360
35	Nunzio Gambino	Italy	€360
36	Tore Mikkelsen Doeving	Norway	€360
37	Scott Anthony Majorino	Switzerland	€360
38	Patrick Eamon Mcmullan	England	€360
39	Michael Conrad Spencer	England	€360
40	Christian Kempf	Switzerland	€300
41	Emmanouil Asgoudakis	Greece	€300
42	Goran Roshkoski	North Macedonia	€300
43	Neil Zammit	Malta	€300
44	Michal Minar	Czech Republic	€300
45	Shamay Pesachov	Israel	€300
46	Oliver Hardt	Germany	€300
47	Garry David Lee Carter	England	€300
48	Avraham Barides	Israel	€300
49	Dieter Aebi	Switzerland	€300
50	Marco Vittorio Mascheroni	Italy	€300
51	Marco Cataldi	Italy	€300
52	Radek Castka	Czech Republic	€300
53	Eirik Mallesvik	Norway	€300
54	Walter Heinz Lotter	Germany	€300
55	Manuel Apollonio	Italy	€300
56	Stefan Helge Roland Fransson	Sweden	€280
57	Marco Nicola Cerrato	Germany	€280
58	John Todd	England	€280
59	Eran Bachar	Israel	€280
60	Gianluca Grimaldi	Italy	€280
61	Alessandro Amenta	Italy	€280
62	Waam Trabshi	Israel	€280
63	Rob Henri Walkers	Belgium	€280

* Five-way deal

€450 Novibet Bounty Cuatro: 49 Hunters Head Into Day 2

The €450 Novibet Bounty Cuatro played down to its final 49 players on Monday, with Day 2 action set for Tuesday. The format is one of the more unique at the Battle of Malta: progressive bounties set at four times the regular size, starting at €800 per player, with bounties starting on Day 2 with just a quarter of the field remaining.

Half of every bounty goes straight into the eliminator's pocket, while the other half is added to their personal bounty. The longer you survive and the more you eliminate, the bigger the target on your back, and the bigger the payday if you take someone out.

The 202-entry field produced a combined prize pool of €35,552 in regular money plus €40,400 in bounties. Leading the way into Day 2 is Italy's Nicola Tolomeo with 1,225,000 chips, followed by Italy's Salvatore Pisciotta with 1,190,000 and Israel's Yossi Atia with 1,145,000.

€450 buy-in | 202 entries | €35,552 prize pool + €40,400 bounties

Day 2 Chip Counts

€450 buy-in | 202 entries | 49 players remaining

Position	Player	Country	Chips	BBs
1	Nicola Tolomeo	Italy	1,225,000	204
2	Salvatore Pisciotta	Italy	1,190,000	198
3	Yossi Atia	Israel	1,145,000	191
4	Carmine Esposito	Italy	1,105,000	184
5	Alexandros Moscharis	Greece	1,075,000	179
6	Marco Fiore	Italy	1,050,000	175
7	David Cohen	Israel	1,020,000	170
8	Antonio Russello	Italy	995,000	166
9	Georgios Triantafyllou	Greece	960,000	160
10	Rosario Cino	Italy	935,000	156
11	Daniele Maniscalco	Italy	910,000	152
12	George Agius	Malta	880,000	147
13	Claudio Renna	Italy	855,000	143
14	Panagiotis Vlahos	Greece	830,000	138
15	Raffaele Simonelli	Italy	810,000	135
16	Carlos Fernandez Garcia	Spain	785,000	131
17	Luca Bonanno	Italy	760,000	127
18	Ioannis Tzioras	Greece	740,000	123
19	Salvatore Santoro	Italy	720,000	120
20	Roni Adira	Israel	695,000	116
21	Giuseppe Termine	Italy	670,000	112
22	Joseph Mifsud	Malta	650,000	108
23	Vincenzo Napolitano	Italy	625,000	104
24	Stefanos Patras	Greece	605,000	101
25	Salvatore Vitale	Italy	585,000	98
26	Eitan Shapira	Israel	565,000	94
27	Paul Mifsud	Malta	545,000	91
28	Mario Greco	Italy	525,000	88
29	Nikolaos Mpekas	Greece	505,000	84
30	Francesco Marino	Italy	490,000	82
31	Avi Yaakobi	Israel	475,000	79
32	Enzo Buonocore	Italy	460,000	77
33	Panagiotis Karagiannis	Greece	445,000	74
34	Salvatore Castronovo	Italy	430,000	72
35	Mario Farrugia	Malta	415,000	69
36	Antonio Fazio	Italy	400,000	67
37	Sotirios Papadimitriou	Greece	385,000	64
38	Nir Dahan	Israel	370,000	62
39	Salvatore Ingrassia	Italy	355,000	59
40	Anastasios Karahalios	Greece	340,000	57
41	Gianni Drago	Italy	325,000	54
42	Anthony Camilleri	Malta	310,000	52
43	Rosario Ferraro	Italy	295,000	49
44	Evangelos Papadopoulos	Greece	280,000	47
45	Carmelo Russello	Italy	265,000	44
46	Kobi Feldman	Israel	250,000	42
47	Salvatore Conti	Italy	235,000	39
48	Saviour Grech	Malta	220,000	37
49	Antonio Lombardo	Italy	205,000	34

Tuesday Schedule at the 2026 Battle of Malta Autumn Edition

Tuesday is the biggest day of the series so far. The headline is the €600 BOM Main Event Day 4, which takes 24 survivors and a €2,413,281 prize pool to a winner, with €227,835 waiting at the top for the champion. Estonia's Anton Makejev leads with 14,050,000 chips. KKPoker Ambassador Jon Kyte is still alive with 2,300,000, representing some of the sharpest play in the room.

All of Tuesday's Main Event action will be filmed in real time without hole cards, then the live stream fires up on delay once the final table is reached, with hole cards exposed and poker.pro CEO Jason Glatzer and Battle of Malta and poker.pro host Glenn Brown on commentary alongside poker streamer and Battle of Malta favorite Bert "GirafGanger" Stevens. The high-roller action continues Tuesday with even more firepower.

The €1,100 StarYes NLH High Roller concludes its three-day run at 5 p.m. with 31 players left and over half a million euros on the line, crowning its champion before the day is out. At 2 p.m., the No Filter High Roller makes its Battle of Malta debut at 4 p.m. for those looking for more big-bet action.

Three more new side events kick off on Tuesday: the €150 IPC Turbo Deep Stack NLH at 3 p.m., the €200 HORSE and the €240 PokerNews Open Event both at 6 p.m., and the €130 Dark Knight NLH at 10 p.m. for the night owls. The €450 Novibet Bounty Cuatro Day 2 also plays out in two phases, with the PKO 25% phase starting at 9 p.m.

Date	Time	Event
Nov. 3	12:00 p.m.	€600 BOM Main Event Day 4
	12:00 p.m.	€450 Novibet Bounty Cuatro Day 2
	3:00 p.m.	€150 IPC Turbo Deep Stack NLH
	4:00 p.m.	€2,200 No Filter Royal High Roller
	5:00 p.m.	€1,100 StarYes NLH High Roller Day 3
	6:00 p.m.	€200 HORSE
	6:00 p.m.	€240 PokerNews Open Event
	9:00 p.m.	€450 Novibet Bounty Cuatro Day 2 PKO 25%
	10:00 p.m.	€130 Dark Knight NLH

Battle of Malta Autumn Edition 2026: FAQ

Full live coverage of the event will recommence at 1 p.m. for Day 3 of the Main Event on the Battle of Malta blog; look out for the daily recap of results and highlights on poker.pro in due course.

• Article originally produced at poker.pro.