Wednesday at WSOP Circuit Malta, powered by TexaPoker, packed in four events across the day and evening at Casino Malta and the adjoining InterContinental Malta.
Three ring events were in action on Wednesday, setting the stage for many players in their hunt for a coveted WSOP Circuit gold ring. The €1,500 Main Event launched its first of four flights with Italy’s Mikel Calo’ bagging the largest stack. The €2,500 High Roller completed Day 2 with Sweden’s Karl Sandoff leading 16 survivors into Thursday’s final. And a third flight of the €300 Colossus sent 18 more players through to the combined Day 2.
Meanwhile, Italy’s Giuseppe Leone won the side event of the day after topping the €300 Daily Deepstack with a deal with Denmark’s Mattias Hansen.
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Karl Sandoff Leads 16 Into the High Roller Final
The €2,500 High Roller ran a second day on Wednesday, building the field to 187 entries for a €395,505 prize pool. With 29 places paid, the final 16 survivors each locked up €5,220 and will return Thursday at 1 p.m. for the ring. Sweden’s Karl Sandoff leads the way into the final with 8,300,000 chips.
The Netherlands’ Joris Ruijs is second with 5,000,000, followed by France’s Thomas Eychenne with 4,500,000. The €2,500 High Roller carries a €93,225 first-place prize and a $5,000 WSOP Paradise package, along with the gold ring.
€2,500 buy-in | 187 entries | €395,505 prize pool | 16 survivors advancing
| Position | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Karl Sandoff | Sweden | 8,300,000 |
| 2 |  Joris Ruijs | Netherlands | 5,000,000 |
| 3 |  Thomas Eychenne | France | 4,500,000 |
| 4 |  Yiannis Liperis | United Kingdom | 4,100,000 |
| 5 |  Fausto Tantillo | Italy | 3,100,000 |
| 6 |  Aviv Dadush | Israel | 3,000,000 |
| 7 | Marcus Petersson | Sweden | 2,900,000 |
| 8 |  Javier Martinez Estivill | Spain | 2,600,000 |
| 9 |  Scerri Andre | Malta | 2,600,000 |
| 10 | Gabi Livshitz | Israel | 2,300,000 |
| 11 | Marco Bognanni | Italy | 2,200,000 |
| 12 |  Pablo Garcia | Austria | 2,100,000 |
| 13 | Pablo Silvestrini Cabrera | Spain | 1,200,000 |
| 14 |  Sebastian Mortensen | Denmark | 1,200,000 |
| 15 |  Tiago Braisileiro | Brazil | 855,000 |
| 16 | Jordan Dumas | France | 825,000 |
Players finishing 17th through 29th collected between €5,000 and €5,220. Italy’s Luca Bernardi (17th), Germany’s Jakob Miegel (18th), the Netherlands’ Luca Van Den Belt (19th) and Italy’s Alessandro Barone (20th) each took €5,220. Canada’s Pawan Braich (21st), France’s Romain Nardin (22nd), Belarus’s Siarhei Alontsau (23rd), the United Kingdom’s Marc Foggin (24th), the Netherlands’ Daniel Lakerveld (25th), Sweden’s Erik Lindqwist (26th), Greece’s Dimitrios Koultoukis (27th), Greece’s Dimitrios Gkatzas (28th) and France’s Maxime Chilaud (29th) each received €5,000.
€2,500 buy-in | 187 entries | €395,505 prize pool
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | €93,225 | ||
| 2 | €61,000 | ||
| 3 | €41,300 | ||
| 4 | €28,700 | ||
| 5 | €20,600 | ||
| 6 | €15,300 | ||
| 7 | €11,700 | ||
| 8 | €9,300 | ||
| 9 | €7,600 | ||
| 10 | €6,460 | ||
| 11 | €6,460 | ||
| 12 | €5,690 | ||
| 13 | €5,690 | ||
| 14 | €5,690 | ||
| 15 | €5,690 | ||
| 16 | €5,220 | ||
| 17 | Luca Bernardi | Italy | €5,220 |
| 18 |  Jakob Miegel | Germany | €5,220 |
| 19 | Luca Van Den Belt | Netherlands | €5,220 |
| 20 | Alessandro Barone | Italy | €5,220 |
| 21 |  Pawan Braich | Canada | €5,000 |
| 22 | Romain Nardin | France | €5,000 |
| 23 |  Siarhei Alontsau | Belarus | €5,000 |
| 24 | Marc Foggin | United Kingdom | €5,000 |
| 25 | Daniel Lakerveld | Netherlands | €5,000 |
| 26 | Erik Lindqwist | Sweden | €5,000 |
| 27 |  Dimitrios Koultoukis | Greece | €5,000 |
| 28 | Dimitrios Gkatzas | Greece | €5,000 |
| 29 | Maxime Chilaud | France | €5,000 |
Mikel Calo’ Leads Event #8 Main Event Day 1A
Wednesday’s most anticipated session was the opening flight of the €1,500 Main Event, the marquee ring event of the Malta series. Day 1A drew 107 entries and added €137,052 to a growing prize pool across four flights. Italy’s Mikel Calo’ leads the 17 survivors into Day 2 with 940,000 chips.
France’s Thomas Rayssiguier is second with 534,000, and Malta’s Matthew Micallef bags third with 480,000. Day 2 is Saturday, October 3, with the final day live-streamed on Sunday, October 4, commentated by poker.pro’s Jason Glatzer and guests. Flight B fires Thursday at 12:30 p.m.
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€1,500 buy-in | Day 1A: 107 entries | 17 survivors advancing
| Position | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mikel Calo’ | Italy | 940,000 |
| 2 | Thomas Rayssiguier | France | 534,000 |
| 3 | Matthew Micallef | Malta | 480,000 |
| 4 | Carlo Van Ravenswoud | Netherlands | 443,000 |
| 5 | Gabriele Paone | Italy | 430,000 |
| 6 | Gabriele Re | Italy | 358,000 |
| 7 | Riccardo Trevisani | Italy | 309,000 |
| 8 |  Evangelos Charalampous | Cyprus | 276,000 |
| 9 | Koen Meutsege | Netherlands | 260,000 |
| 10 | Birger Larsen | Brazil | 237,000 |
| 11 | Georgios Tsouloftas | Cyprus | 221,000 |
| 12 |  Mario Llapi | Albania | 190,000 |
| 13 |  Maksim Jankovski | Estonia | 170,000 |
| 14 | Cyrus Aronis | Germany | 165,000 |
| 15 | David Ledden | United Kingdom | 158,000 |
| 16 |  Filip Barczak | Poland | 101,000 |
| 17 | Andrea Dal Bo’ | Italy | 82,000 |
Event #4 Colossus Day 1C Sends 18 Through
The €300 Colossus continued building its field with a third starting flight on Wednesday evening. Day 1C attracted 118 entries, adding €59,144 to the prize pool, with 18 players surviving into the combined Day 2. France’s Romain De Rieux led the flight with 365,000 chips, followed by Italy’s Angelo Patane with 349,000 and Malta’s Mark Vella with 284,000. This pushed De Rieux ahead of Day 1B chip leader Karl Gialanze and just behind the Day 1A chip leader from France, Franck Bain, who bagged 466,500 on Sunday.
The Colossus, the single most ambitious event on the Malta schedule, runs six flights in total with its final day set for Monday, October 5. The combined 1A/1B field of 25 survivors from the first two flights now grows to 43 with Day 1C’s 18. A fourth turbo flight fires Thursday evening at 8 p.m.
€300 buy-in | 242 entries after three flights | €59,144 prize pool | 43 survivors advancing to Day 2
| Position | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romain De Rieux | France | 365,000 |
| 2 | Angelo Patane | Italy | 349,000 |
| 3 | Mark Vella | Malta | 284,000 |
| 4 | Francesco Squillaci | Italy | 271,000 |
| 5 | Lin Chen | United Kingdom | 253,000 |
| 6 |  Andre Haakestad | Norway | 246,000 |
| 7 | Resta Giuseppe | Italy | 227,000 |
| 8 | Herve Gouzil | France | 226,000 |
| 9 | Florian Eymard | France | 219,000 |
| 10 |  Egidijus Matonis | Lithuania | 190,000 |
| 11 |  John Martino | United States | 142,000 |
| 12 | Tony Arf | Brazil | 140,000 |
| 13 | Milan Van Nijnatten | Netherlands | 135,000 |
| 14 | Radoslaw Wielewicki | Poland | 115,000 |
| 15 | Alkiviadis Stamatis | Greece | 100,000 |
| 16 | Luca Sebastiani | Italy | 96,000 |
| 17 | Djade Sadloe | Netherlands | 94,000 |
| 18 | Wayne Brook | United Kingdom | 88,000 |
Italy’s Giuseppe Leone Wins the Daily Deepstack
The €300 Daily Deepstack on Wednesday drew 136 entries to build a €33,238 prize pool. Italy’s Giuseppe Leone and Denmark’s Mattias Hansen struck a deal at the top, each collecting €6,786.
Israel’s Tal Chagage finished third for €3,675, Turkey’s Sinan Erten fourth for €2,590, and Norway’s Morten Godaker fifth for €1,885.
€300 buy-in | 136 entries | €33,238 prize pool
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giuseppe Leone | Italy | €6,786* |
| 2 | Mattias Hansen | Denmark | €6,786* |
| 3 | Tal Chagage | Israel | €3,675 |
| 4 |  Sinan Erten | Turkey | €2,590 |
| 5 | Morten Godaker | Norway | €1,885 |
| 6 | Kasjusz Zycinski | Poland | €1,420 |
| 7 | Jorn Olsen | Norway | €1,115 |
| 8 | David Torgeman | Israel | €905 |
| 9 | Francesco Cicero | Italy | €765 |
| 10 |  Miguel Zertuche | Mexico | €675 |
| 11 |  Aleksandar Georgiev | Bulgaria | €675 |
| 12 | Salvatore Senapa | Italy | €620 |
| 13 | Igor Bukowski | Poland | €620 |
| 14 |  Eduard Litskan | Ukraine | €590 |
| 15 | Wilhelm Isaak | Germany | €590 |
| 16 | Alexandre Arabia | France | €590 |
| 17 | Bulent Sahin | Turkey | €590 |
| 18 | Yechezkel Pinchas | Israel | €590 |
| 19 | James Hart | United Kingdom | €590 |
| 20 | Marc Schembri | Malta | €590 |
| 21 | Simone Spina | Italy | €590 |
* Deal at heads-up
Thursday at WSOP Circuit Malta
Thursday brings the High Roller final at 1 p.m., where Sweden’s Karl Sandoff takes his 8,300,000-chip lead with just two tables left playing for a €93,225 top prize, a $5,000 WSOP Paradise package to the Bahamas, and a coveted WSOP Circuit gold ring.
The €1,500 Main Event fires its second of four flights at 12:30 p.m. A €300 Daily Superstack runs at 5 p.m., and the Colossus takes another flight at 8 p.m. in turbo format.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 12:00 | €180 Landmark Satellite to Main Event |
| 12:30 | Event #8: €1,500 Main Event — Flight B |
| 13:00 | Event #7: €2,500 High Roller — Final Day |
| 17:00 | €300 Daily Superstack |
| 20:00 | Event #4: €300 Colossus — Flight D (Turbo) |
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