Saturday at the inaugural WSOP Circuit Malta, powered by TexaPoker, belonged to the Main Event. The €1,500 Main Event attracted 879 entries across its four starting flights to build a €1,115,451 prize pool, and on Saturday the field of 134 survivors was cut all the way down to a final table of nine at the Casino Malta. Poland’s Radoslaw Kopec leads the way with 8,200,000 chips, with €200,000, a gold ring, and a $5,000 WSOP Paradise package waiting for the winner. The final table will be streamed live on the Casino Malta YouTube channel, with commentary from our own Jason Glatzer.
Two other ring events also got underway with their respective Day 1s on Saturday: the €1,000 NLH Deepstack and the €550 Pot-Limit Omaha, with both final days scheduled for Sunday, alongside the Main Event. The €300 Colossus also ran its second-to-last starting flight, drawing 112 fresh entries.
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Kopec Leads the Final Nine in the Main Event
Day 2 of the €1,500 NLH Main Event started with 134 survivors from the four opening flights, all of them already in the money. After more than 12 hours of play, the field was cut down to the final table of nine, and Poland’s Radoslaw Kopec is leading the way with 8,200,000.
The Polish player is heading toward the best result of his career, and he has some history with this very spot. A Main Event ring already slipped through his fingers once in 2025, when he finished as the runner-up at the WSOP Circuit in Middelkerke, Belgium. He’ll be hoping to finish the job this time.
Kopec is ahead of a pair of Italians, Matteo Ricco and Luca Topazio, who bring 6,900,000 and 6,700,000 to the final table. Italy is the best-represented country at the table with four players, alongside Alberto Cigliano and Nicola Bordignon, while Poland has two. Denmark’s Christoffer Jensen, who started Day 2 as the chip leader, managed to squeeze into the final table in current eighth place with 3,200,000.
Everyone at the table already has €14,191 locked up, but all nine are gunning for the €200,000 first prize and the coveted gold ring, with a $5,000 WSOP Paradise package to the Bahamas on top. Action restarts at 13:00 local time on Sunday, and you can watch the first-ever WSOP Circuit Malta Main Event ring be awarded live on the Casino Malta YouTube channel, with commentary from our own Jason Glatzer, on the usual stream delay.
2026 WSOP Circuit Event #8: €1,500 Main Event Final Table Chip Count
| Position | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Radoslaw Kopec | Poland | 8,200,000 |
| 2 |  Matteo Ricco | Italy | 6,900,000 |
| 3 | Luca Topazio | Italy | 6,700,000 |
| 4 |  Aleksandar Georgiev | Bulgaria | 4,500,000 |
| 5 | Alberto Cigliano | Italy | 4,300,000 |
| 6 |  Lucas Van Den Belt | Netherlands | 4,300,000 |
| 7 | Vitali Bibik | Poland | 3,700,000 |
| 8 |  Christoffer Jensen | Denmark | 3,200,000 |
| 9 | Nicola Bordignon | Italy | 2,200,000 |
2026 WSOP Circuit Event #8: €1,500 Main Event Final Table Payouts
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1st | €200,000 |
| 2nd | €125,000 |
| 3rd | €85,000 |
| 4th | €60,000 |
| 5th | €43,000 |
| 6th | €31,000 |
| 7th | €23,000 |
| 8th | €17,300 |
| 9th | €14,191 |
Event #9: €1,000 NLH Deepstack Gets Underway
The two-day €1,000 NLH Deepstack event, attracted 268 entries on Day 1 to build a €227,574 prize pool. Late registration remains open until the start of Day 2, while 77 players survived the opening day.
Israel’s Yoav Zvi tops the counts with 448,000, with France’s Mike Laskar close behind at 446,000. Poland’s Tomasz Brzezinski (425,000) and Greece’s Dimitrios Koultoukis (402,000) also bagged more than 400,000. Play restarts at 13:00 local time on Sunday and continues down to a winner.
2026 WSOP Circuit Malta Event #9: €1,000 NLH Deepstack Top 10 Day 1 Chip Count
| Position | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Yoav Zvi | Israel | 448,000 |
| 2 |  Mike Laskar | France | 446,000 |
| 3 | Tomasz Brzezinski | Poland | 425,000 |
| 4 |  Dimitrios Koultoukis | Greece | 402,000 |
| 5 |  Simon Forster | Malta | 392,000 |
| 6 |  Nikita Ovdiei | Ukraine | 382,000 |
| 7 |  Andreas Mavromoustakis | Cyprus | 333,000 |
| 8 | Daniele Grasso | Italy | 318,000 |
| 9 | Gabi Livshitz | Israel | 304,000 |
| 10 | Giovanni Nava | Italy | 295,000 |
Event #10: €550 PLO Opens With 103 Entries
There was something for the four-card enthusiasts at Casino Malta too. Event #10, the €550 Pot-Limit Omaha, brought together 103 players and built a €47,441 prize pool.
Thirty-three players have a stack for Day 2, although, as with the Deepstack, late registration remains open for two more levels after the 13:00 restart on Sunday. Play continues down to a winner. Italy’s Alberto Ricco Galluzzo starts the final day in pole position with 375,000, with Ukraine’s Oleksandr Sadovyi (317,500) and France’s Raymond Montet (246,500) lining up right behind him. But with Omaha, anything can happen.
2026 WSOP Circuit Malta Event #10: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha Top 10 Day 1 Chip Count
| Position | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alberto Ricco Galluzzo | Italy | 375,000 |
| 2 | Oleksandr Sadovyi | Ukraine | 317,500 |
| 3 | Raymond Montet | France | 246,500 |
| 4 |  Birger Larsen | Brazil | 213,500 |
| 5 | Riccardo Trevisani | Italy | 207,500 |
| 6 | Arnaud Batrick | France | 185,500 |
| 7 |  Mounir Tajiou | Sweden | 177,500 |
| 8 |  Sinisa Radovanovic | Serbia | 158,000 |
| 9 | Mathieu Choffardet | France | 150,500 |
| 10 |  Daniel Campion | Ireland | 148,000 |
Barone Leads the Colossus After Flight E
The €300 Colossus ran its fifth of six starting flights on Saturday evening, drawing 112 fresh entries and lifting the prize pool to €114,623. Seventeen players made it through, bringing the total number of survivors to 72.
Italy’s Roberto Barone grabbed the biggest stack out of Day 1E with 538,000, which is also the biggest stack across all five flights combined. Behind him in the overall counts is France’s Franck Bain, the Day 1A leader, with 466,500.
One more flight, Flight F, fires Sunday evening at 20:00, before the combined Final Day on Monday, October 5.
2026 WSOP Circuit Malta Event #4: €300 Colossus Day 1E Chip Count
| Position | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roberto Barone | Italy | 538,000 |
| 2 |  Ali Bagci | Turkey | 320,000 |
| 3 |  Cyrus Aronis | Germany | 315,000 |
| 4 |  Soner Vaneldener | Belgium | 282,000 |
| 5 | Simone Spina | Italy | 273,000 |
| 6 | Marco Magistro | Italy | 257,000 |
| 7 |  Josef Zelizko | Czech Republic | 236,000 |
| 8 | Dario Calabrese | Italy | 197,000 |
| 9 |  John Macdonald | United States | 166,000 |
| 10 | Christos Pantziaros | Cyprus | 157,000 |
| 11 | Erik Forsberg | Sweden | 124,000 |
| 12 | Giuseppe Saija | Italy | 116,000 |
| 13 | Robert Binek | Poland | 97,000 |
| 14 |  Ruben Korab | Austria | 76,000 |
| 14 | Salvatore Fichera | Italy | 76,000 |
| 14 |  Jose Gil Rodriguez | Spain | 76,000 |
| 17 | Paolo Di Girolamo | Italy | 56,000 |
2026 WSOP Circuit Malta Ring Winners So Far
Six rings have been awarded so far at the inaugural WSOP Circuit Malta, and they have gone to winners from six different countries. The Main Event ring is the next one up.
| Event | Entries | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event #1: €300 NLH Mini Main Event | 808 |  Ivan Botvinkin | Russia | €35,000 |
| Event #2: €550 NLH Seniors (50+) | 98 |  Jonas Lapinskas | Lithuania | €12,263 |
| Event #3: €550 NLH Mystery Bounty | 553 | Shaun Decesare | Malta | €23,586 |
| Event #5: €300 NLH Ladies Event | 58 | Alcira Lagerwerf | Netherlands | €4,410 |
| Event #6: €500 NLH Knockout | 283 | Mette Downer | Denmark | €13,750 |
| Event #7: €2,500 NLH High Roller | 187 | Pablo Garcia | Austria | €93,225 |
| Event #8: €1,500 NLH Main Event | 879 | €200,000 |
Sunday, October 4 at WSOP Circuit Malta
Sunday is an action-packed day, with three rings up for grabs. The Main Event final table, the €1,000 Deepstack final day, and the €550 PLO final day all fire at 13:00. Event #11, the €400 NLH Superstack, opens its Day 1 at 14:00, followed by the €300 Daily Deepstack at 17:00 and the sixth and final Colossus starting flight, a turbo, at 20:00.
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday, Oct 4 | 13:00 | Event #8: Main Event: Final Day |
| 13:00 | Event #9: Deepstack: Final Day | |
| 13:00 | Event #10: PLO: Final Day | |
| 14:00 | Event #11: €400 NLH Superstack: Day 1 | |
| 17:00 | €300 Daily Deepstack | |
| 20:00 | Event #4: €300 NLH Colossus: Flight F (Turbo) |
* Photos courtesy of TexaPoker / WSOP.
