Thursday at Casino Malta and the adjoining InterContinental Malta brought another gold ring to Malta’s inaugural WSOP Circuit stop, with the €2,500 High Roller crowning its champion. Meanwhile, the €1,500 Main Event added its second starting flight, and the €300 Colossus kept rolling with a fourth flight of its own.
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Pablo Garcia Wins Maiden Circuit Ring in €2,500 High Roller Event
The €2,500 High Roller wrapped up its opening day on Wednesday with a field of 187 entries, building a €395,505 prize pool that sits comfortably as the second-largest of the festival so far behind the Main Event. Sixteen players returned Thursday for the final day, each already locked into a €5,220 min-cash.
Austria’s Pablo Garcia had himself a day. Starting the day 12th in chips out of the 16 players who returned, Garcia navigated his way through the field to claim the €93,225 top prize, his first-ever tournament trophy, and a WSOP Circuit gold ring. He’ll also be flying to the Bahamas this winter for the WSOP Paradise, with a $5,000 package in his pocket.
It’s a remarkable result for a player with just three recorded live cashes to his name, all from this summer’s WSOP in Las Vegas, totaling a modest $6,216. Garcia has now walked through the front door of the European live circuit in the biggest way possible. He beat Sweden’s Marcus Petersson heads-up, who had to settle for €61,000 as the runner-up. Petersson’s countryman, Karl Sandoff, who carried the chip lead into the final day, ultimately finished fifth for €20,600.
2026 WSOP Circuit Malta Event #7: €2,500 High Roller Final Day Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Pablo Garcia | Austria | €93,225 |
| 2 |  Marcus Petersson | Sweden | €61,000 |
| 3 |  Yiannis Liperis | United Kingdom | €41,300 |
| 4 |  Javier Martinez Estivill | Spain | €28,700 |
| 5 | Karl Sandoff | Sweden | €20,600 |
| 6 |  Sebastian Mortensen | Denmark | €15,300 |
| 7 |  Aviv Dadush | Israel | €11,700 |
| 8 |  Fausto Tantillo | Italy | €9,300 |
| 9 | Marco Bognanni | Italy | €7,600 |
| 10 |  Joris Ruijs | Netherlands | €6,460 |
| 11 | Gabi Livshitz | Israel | €6,460 |
| 12 |  Thomas Eychenne | France | €5,690 |
| 13 | Pablo Silvestrini Cabrera | Spain | €5,690 |
| 14 |  Tiago Souza Aguiar | Brazil | €5,690 |
| 15 |  Scerri Andre | Malta | €5,690 |
| 16 | Jordan Dumas | France | €5,220 |
Main Event Field Grows With Flight B
The €1,500 Main Event’s first flight, Day 1A, had drawn 107 entries on Wednesday, while Flight B added another 230 entries on Thursday, sending 35 more players through to Day 2 and pushing the overall prize pool to €433,998.
Denmark’s Christoffer Jensen took the torch from Italy’s Mikel Calo, who had led after Flight A, bagging up a massive 1,330,000 in chips to take the overall lead. Lithuania’s Jonas Lapinskas, fresh off his Seniors Event win earlier in the week, also had a big day, amassing 992,000. Italy’s Alberto Cigliano rounds out the podium with 761,000.
Two more starting flights remain before the field is finalized. Flight C fires Friday, October 2, at 12:30, with a turbo-paced Flight D following at 20:00 that same evening. Day 2 is set for Saturday, October 3, with the Final Day (and Malta’s first-ever WSOP Circuit Main Event champion), decided on Sunday, October 4. Also with a commentary from our own Jason Glatzer.
2026 WSOP Circuit Malta Event #8: €1,500 Main Event Day 1B Chip Counts
| Position | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christoffer Jensen | Denmark | 1,300,000 |
| 2 |  Jonas Lapinskas | Lithuania | 992,000 |
| 3 | Alberto Cigliano | Italy | 761,000 |
| 4 | Fausto Tantillo | Italy | 721,000 |
| 5 | Martin Hofmann | Denmark | 608,000 |
| 6 |  Serhii Ivanenko | Ukraine | 451,000 |
| 7 |  Georgios Karakousis | Greece | 438,000 |
| 8 | Barry Grime | United Kingdom | 428,000 |
| 9 | Alessandro Barone | Italy | 404,000 |
| 10 |  Pavle Nikolic | Serbia | 358,000 |
| 11 | Ilay Uziel | Israel | 341,000 |
| 12 | Joris Ruijs | Netherlands | 320,000 |
| 13 |  Jakob Miegel | Germany | 316,000 |
| 14 | Edoardo Danesi | Italy | 304,000 |
| 15 | Marc Foggin | United Kingdom | 297,000 |
| 15 |  Claudio Muller | Switzerland | 297,000 |
| 17 | Alessandro Comi | Italy | 247,000 |
| 18 | Giuseppe Leone | Italy | 245,000 |
| 19 | Nicola Bordignon | Italy | 231,000 |
| 20 | Erik Lindqvist | Sweden | 213,000 |
| 21 |  Maciej Gut | Poland | 209,000 |
| 22 | Jean Pasqualini | France | 198,000 |
| 23 | Maxime Chilaud | France | 189,000 |
| 23 | Candido Cappiello | Italy | 189,000 |
| 25 |  Aleksandar Georgiev | Bulgaria | 185,000 |
| 26 | Gintas Dirse | Lithuania | 178,000 |
| 27 | Luigi D’altero | Italy | 155,000 |
| 28 | Jacopo Giacomazzi | Italy | 152,000 |
| 29 | Angelo Marrone | Italy | 149,000 |
| 30 | Alessandro Pichierri | Italy | 135,000 |
| 31 | Moritz Felsing | Germany | 130,000 |
| 32 |  Peter Kovacs | Hungary | 98,000 |
| 32 | Grzegorz Kozieja | Poland | 98,000 |
| 34 | Carlo Vitti | Switzerland | 85,000 |
| 35 | Tiago Souza Aguiar | Brazil | 68,000 |
Colossus Keeps Growing With Flight D
The fourth of six starting flights in the massive €300 Colossus brought in 115 new entries on Thursday, sending 18 more players through. That pushes the overall field to 357 entries after four flights, with two more still to come. The prize pool now sits at €87,250, with 55 players through in total heading toward the combined Final Day on Monday, October 5.
Italy’s Fabio Di Cosimo grabbed the biggest stack out of Day 1D with 417,000, with France’s Julien Ricard close behind at 408,000. The pair now sit second and third in the overall chip counts, but France’s Franck Bain, the Day 1A leader, still holds the overall mantle with 466,500.
2026 WSOP Circuit Malta Event #4: €300 Colossus Day 1D Chip Counts
| Position | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fabio Di Cosimo | Italy | 417,000 |
| 2 | Julien Ricard | France | 408,000 |
| 3 | Philip Pearson | United Kingdom | 360,000 |
| 4 |  Alexandru-Lucian Morar | Romania | 340,000 |
| 5 | Clement Lafon | France | 300,000 |
| 6 | Nima Saken Shaft | Germany | 287,000 |
| 7 | Filip Barczak | Poland | 206,000 |
| 7 | Bianka Abade | Brazil | 206,000 |
| 9 | Claudio Biondo | Italy | 202,000 |
| 10 | Alkan Aydingoez | Germany | 157,000 |
| 11 |  Martin Vltavsky | Czech Republic | 96,000 |
| 12 | Philip Packer | United Kingdom | 94,000 |
| 13 | Lukasz Fraczek | Poland | 87,000 |
| 14 |  Maksim Jankovski | Estonia | 78,000 |
| 15 |  Arttu Jussila | Finland | 69,000 |
| 16 | Hugo Breton | France | 60,000 |
| 17 | Antonino Karman | Hungary | 57,000 |
| 18 | Patrick Mc Donald | United Kingdom | 51,000 |
Friday, October 2 at WSOP Circuit Malta
Friday is a big day for the Main Event, with Flight C firing at 12:30 and a turbo-paced Flight D following at 20:00. A €180 Landmark Satellite to the Main Event runs at noon, the €300 Daily Mix Hold’em/Omaha4 fires at 17:00, and a €130 Landmark Satellite to the Deepstack closes out the night at 21:00.
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, October 2 | 12:00 | €180 Landmark Satellite to Main Event |
| 12:30 | Event #8: €1,500 NLH Main Event: Flight C | |
| 17:00 | €300 Daily Mix Hold’em / Omaha4 | |
| 20:00 | Event #8: €1,500 NLH Main Event: Flight D (Turbo) | |
| 21:00 | €130 Landmark Satellite to Deepstack |
