Flaviano Cammisuli, an Italian waiter who lives here in Malta, managed a late rush on the end of the day to secure the chip lead, finishing with 2,362,000 - the one player over the two million mark. Cammisuli knocked out Markus Kuhnen right on the end of play with J♠J♦ against A♦8♥ to secure his place on the top of the leaderboard going into Day 4.

Chip leader Flaviano Cammisuli

Cammisuli leads prior to Balazs Botond, the Eureka4 Prague champion, Botond finished the day with 1,475,000 that is enough to place the Hungarian in second place. EPT Grand Final winner Steve O'Dwyer is in third with 1,402,000 while Hugo Lemaire, who was chip leader originally of the day is in fourth with 1,376,000. Other 'millionaires' include Georgios Zisimopoulos (1,319,000), Jaroslaw Sikora (1,300,000), Glenn Cymbaluk (1,277,000) and Guy Bachar.

Glenn Cymbaluk

Other notables include EPT winner Julian Track (912,000), EPT9 Barcelona Super High Roller runner-up JC Alvardo (690,000) and Eureka4 Vienna finalist Bryan Paris (467,000). They're all a part of the 43 players who've made it into Day 4 and are guaranteed a minimum payout of €3,700.

Steve O'Dwyer

All three members of Team PokerStars Pro were unfortunately eliminated today with Matthias De Meulder (71st - €3,050) finishing the top. Christopher De Meulder (135th - €2,000) and Jan Heitmann (158th - €1,850) also made the money.

Day 4 will start tomorrow at 12.30pm CET another time with the tournament playing right down to the overall table of eight players, however long that will take. To seek out a whole list of chip counts and the seat draw for Day 4, download the EPT app for Android or IOS.

Charity Tournament

Shark Cage star (Miss Finland) Sara Chafakis joining Team PokerStars Pros Jake Cody, Liv Boeree, Fatima Moreira de Melo and Theo Jorgensen in tonight's Helping Hands charity tourney to boost money for Right To Play at 7.30pm. Also playing are several well-known Maltese business people and politicians, representatives from the Swedish Poker Federation, EPT president Edgar Stuchly, Lee Jones, EPT Prague finalist Mickey Norinder, WSOP bracelet winner Chad Holloway, Jackie "Mama Poker" Cachia (who won the Women's Event at EPT London), EPTLive's James Hartigan in addition to staff from the PokerStars.eu head office in nearby Sliema.

Sara Chafakis

All proceeds for the €100 event will visit PokerStars charity partner, Right To Play who use the ability of sport and play to seriously change children's lives. All players are invited to come back with a guest to the drinks and canapé reception starting at 7.30pm; the tourney kicks off at 8.30pm. This year we're funding the learning of over 2500 volunteer coaches for them across the world, which in turn can assist change the lives of over 185,000 children.

Muur flips well!

Yesterday saw three €100 NL Flipout tournaments running at Portomaso Casino. 2014 PCA finalist Madis Muur took down the primary of them. He won €1,190 after beating a 36-strong field in Event #13. Although the Estonian has already won $750k in live tournaments, that is is his first EPT trophy. Georgios-Angelos Tavoularis from Greece and Jacob Van Wijk from Netherlands were the opposite Flipout winners.

Madis Muur

Ladies' Event

Miss Finland Sara Chafak is among 69 players competing for today's EPT Malta €200 Women's Event. The sphere also includes American pro Elena Stover (,who has just moved to Malta), Maria von Perger (whose daughter Jamila is competing nearby within the IPT Malta Main Event), EPT presenter Gaelle Garcia Diaz, British player Natalie Bromley (third in last season's Grand Final Womens' Event) and serial qualifier Elizabeth Bennett-Martin, who's an ordinary on the PCA and finished 25th primarily Event this year for a life-time best cash of €40,000. Also playing is Jackie Cachia, who hails from Malta and won the Womens Event at EPT London for £3,100. Sabina Hiatullah, the last woman standing within the Deauville's Women's Event (a person won it, long story) and in addition the Queens' Cup winner at Eureka Rozvadov, would typically be playing but could also be still in action in IPT Malta.

Huge field for the €2k

There was a complete of 473 for the IPT Malta €2k High Roller. After a record-breaking IPT Main Event, and giant fields for all of the other local tour high rollers this season, the Malta edition is anticipated to draw huge numbers.

The €2k High Roller field

Among folks that started the day were Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree, PokerStars-sponsored PCA 2014 winner Dominik Panka, PCA 2013 champ Dimitar Danchev, WSOP runner-ups Jorryt van Hoof and Jesse Sylvia plus EPT9 Player of the Year Jan Bendik, Chidwick, Dermot Blain, Patrick Leonard, Kitty Kuo, Fabio Sperling, Michel Abecassis, Steven van Zadelhoff, Ruben Visser, Frederik Jensen, Sam Greenwood and Simon Ravnsbaek. 15 players have won their seat via yesterday's live satellite here within the Portomaso Casino. 63 places can be paid no less than €3,900 with €177,000 for the winner.

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