Andre Scerri Leads 120 Into Sunday Final Day at WSOP Circuit Malta Mini Main

All four opening flights of Event #1, the €300 NLH Mini Main Event, are done at the inaugural WSOP Circuit Malta. The 808-entry field has built a €197,475 prize pool, and 120 players return to Casino Malta in St. Julian’s on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. for the Final Day. A historic first WSOP Circuit ring is on the line, with €35,000 going to the winner. Malta’s Andre Scerri, the Flight A chip leader from Friday, carries the overall lead into the finale.

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Gabi Livshitz Bags Mini Main Flight C Chip Lead

Saturday afternoon’s Flight C was the biggest of the four, pulling in 292 entries and sending 44 through to Sunday. Israel’s Gabi Livshitz bagged the lead with 578,000 (72 big blinds), good for second overall in the combined field.

Malta’s Neil Zammit is right behind at 495,000 (61 big blinds), and fellow Maltese player Matthew Micallef bagged fourth overall with 432,000. Rizzo Russell also survived for the home crowd. Italy and France both arrived in force, with multiple players from each country advancing.

€300 buy-in | Day 1C: 292 entries | 44 survivors advancing

Position	Player	Country	Chips
1	Gabi Livshitz	Israel	578,000
2	Neil Zammit	Malta	495,000
3	Yehoushua Kaynan	Israel	434,000
4	Matthew Micallef	Malta	432,000
5	Tony Arf	Brazil	359,000
6	Angelo Censabella	Italy	351,000
7	Abdellah Baali	Algeria	330,000
8	Ivelin Kolev	Bulgaria	321,000
9	Semih Retzep	Germany	317,000
10	Alessandro Angotti	Italy	307,000
11	Shane O’Neill	Ireland	278,000
12	Fausto Tantillo	Italy	271,000
13	Kevin Houghton	United Kingdom	250,000
14	Alexandre Riera	France	246,000
15	Matteo Ricco	Italy	245,000
16	Zoltan Farkas	Romania	223,000
17	Salvatore Patti	Italy	216,000
18	Paul Blakesley	United Kingdom	202,000
19	Riccardo Galluzzo	Italy	198,000
20	Callum Gordon	United Kingdom	192,000
21	Tommy Mokhtari	Sweden	175,000
22	Clement Manquat	France	161,000
23	Sharon Kersley	United Kingdom	153,000
24	Johan Ekdahl	Sweden	139,000
25	Aitor Perez Pinol	Spain	138,000
26	Eryk Bogdas	Poland	135,000
27	Hans Walderstedt Jonson	Sweden	130,000
28	Rizzo Russell	Malta	124,000
29	Thibaut Thevenet	France	122,000
30	Alessio Assennato	Italy	113,000
31	Claudio Muller	Switzerland	111,000
32	Alessandro D’amore	Italy	100,000
33	Simon Bouaksa	France	98,000
34	Pascal Lardy	France	94,000
35	Marco Maggio	Italy	89,000
35	Nima Shaft	Germany	89,000
37	Julien Ricard	France	87,000
38	Matthew Adams	Malta	82,000
39	Tadej Mocnik	Slovenia	81,000
40	Daniel Kuhlmann	Germany	78,000
41	James Hart	United Kingdom	74,000
42	Emrah Ates	Switzerland	72,000
43	Ivan Valentino	Italy	49,000
44	Quentin Garnot	France	46,000

Edoardo Danesi Bags Mini Main Day 1D Chip Lead

Saturday evening’s turbo flight drew 218 entries and sent 33 players through. Italy’s Edoardo Danesi topped it with 506,000 (42 big blinds). Bulgaria’s Aleksandar Georgiev is right behind at 489,000 (40 big blinds), and Poland’s Grotkowski Hubert Michal bagged 420,000 in third. Four Maltese players advanced from Flight D: Anderson Nunez Corrales (312,000), Shaun Decesare (250,000), Daniel Mifsud (190,000) and Joseph Grech (127,000).

€300 buy-in | Day 1D: 218 entries | 33 survivors advancing

Position	Player	Country	Chips
1	Edoardo Danesi	Italy	506,000
2	Aleksandar Georgiev	Bulgaria	489,000
3	Grotkowski Hubert Michal	Poland	420,000
4	Tiago Braisileiro	Brazil	396,000
5	Anderson Nunez Corrales	Malta	312,000
6	Ferdinand Janssen	Netherlands	311,000
7	Stuart Greene	United Kingdom	309,000
8	Clement Bonnant	France	251,000
9	Shaun Decesare	Malta	250,000
10	Alessandro Comi	Italy	240,000
11	Arturo Piancaldini	Italy	208,000
12	Luigi D’altero	Italy	195,000
13	Moritz Felsing	Germany	192,000
14	Daniel Mifsud	Malta	190,000
15	Salvatore Senapa	Italy	171,000
16	Andrey Voropaev	Belarus	169,000
17	Giovanni Magliari	Italy	158,000
18	Tommaso Maione	Italy	152,000
19	Aceto Luca	Italy	146,000
20	Dimitrios Koultoukis	Greece	145,000
21	Mark Johnston	United Kingdom	128,000
22	Joseph Grech	Ireland	127,000
23	Giuseppe Boussemart	France	122,000
24	Wang Gang	China	119,000
25	Erik Lindqwist	Sweden	117,000
26	Saara Ylianttila	Finland	115,000
27	Antonini Marco	Italy	111,000
28	Mirko Fric	Serbia	109,000
29	Andrea Zottola	Italy	101,000
30	Romain Nardin	France	96,000
31	Federico Malleni	Italy	73,000
32	Marco Bognanni	Italy	59,000
33	Matteo Montanari	Italy	44,000

Andre Scerri Leads Heading Into €300 Mini Main Final Day

Four flights. 808 entries. 120 survivors. Malta’s Andre Scerri sits atop the combined chip counts with 602,000 (75 big blinds), carrying the chip lead he bagged in Flight A all the way to the top of the overall standings. He’ll be chasing the distinction of becoming the first WSOP Circuit ring winner in Maltese history, on home soil.

Israel’s Gabi Livshitz is second with 578,000, Flight B leader Alon Huberman slots in third at 510,000, and Italy’s Edoardo Danesi is right there at 506,000. The top of the counts is tight. Every survivor is already locked into a min-cash of at least €600, with the payouts currently projected based on the final field and subject to adjustment once registration closes. The Final Day plays 30-minute levels throughout and will play down to a winner today.

€300 buy-in | 808 entries | €197,475 prize pool | 120 survivors advancing

Position	Player	Country	Chips	BBs
1	Andre Scerri	Malta	602,000	75
2	Gabi Livshitz	Israel	578,000	72
3	Alon Huberman	Israel	510,000	63
4	Edoardo Danesi	Italy	506,000	63
5	Neil Zammit	Malta	495,000	61
6	Aleksandar Georgiev	Bulgaria	489,000	61
7	Yehoushua Kaynan	Israel	434,000	54
8	Matthew Micallef	Malta	432,000	54
9	Hubert Michal Grotkowski	Poland	420,000	52
10	Florian Eymard	France	397,000	49

Everyone’s In the Money

All 120 survivors are already in the money. The payouts below are projected from the 808-entry field and will be finalized once Late Registration closes on Sunday.

Place	Prize
1	€35,000
2	€23,050
3	€16,000
4	€11,100
5	€7,925
6	€5,800
7	€4,300
8	€3,250
9	€2,500
10-11	€1,975
12-15	€1,560
16-23	€1,280
24-31	€1,080
32-39	€920
40-47	€810
48-55	€730
56-63	€670
64-71	€630
72-120	€600

Sunday’s Schedule at Casino Malta

The €300 Mini Main Final Day headlines the action, but Sunday is a full day at Casino Malta.

The €550 Seniors fires at 12:30, the Mystery Bounty Flight A is at 2:00 p.m., and the Colossus kicks off with its turbo opening flight at 8:00 p.m. Satellites to the €1,500 Main Event run throughout the day.

Time	Event
12:00 p.m.	€70 Landmark Satellite to Mystery Bounty
12:30 p.m.	Event #2: €550 NLH Seniors (Ages 50+): Day 1
1:00 p.m.	Event #1: €300 NLH Mini Main Event: Final Day
2:00 p.m.	Event #3: €550 NLH Mystery Bounty: Flight A
5:00 p.m.	€300 Daily Knockout
8:00 p.m.	Event #4: €300 NLH Colossus: Flight A (Turbo)
9:00 p.m.	€180 Landmark Satellite to Main Event