Only 11 Players Remain in the Unibet Open Malta €1,100 Main Event
The final day of the Unibet Open Malta €1,100 Main Event has arrived and there be 11 players returning to their seats with their sights set on the title. After 12 levels of poker on Day 2, the tournament director decided to end the night prior to the final table being reached.
Coming into Day 3, there are three players that have pulled away from the rest of the field. Henri Jantunen from Finland will return to the largest stack of 1,555,000 chips. Not far off in the distance is [Removed:402] with 1,510,000 followed by Matthew Ireland who bagged up 1,440,000. Those are the only three with a stack greater than a million but don't count out the other eight players just yet.
Day 3 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1 | Alan Carr | 770,000 | 31 |
| 16 | 2 | Gedas Petrauskas | 800,000 | 32 |
| 16 | 5 | Matthew Ireland | 1,440,000 | 58 |
| 16 | 6 | Henri Jantunen | 1,555,000 | 62 |
| 16 | 8 | Serdar Demircan | 600,000 | 24 |
| Feature | 1 | Christopher Heidelbacher | 575,000 | 23 |
| Feature | 2 | Sulaiman Sesay | 585,000 | 23 |
| Feature | 3 | Luca Beretta | 340,000 | 14 |
| Feature | 5 | Tonio Roeder | 950,000 | 38 |
| Feature | 6 | Alexandru Cinca | 725,000 | 29 |
| Feature | 8 | [Removed:402] | 1,510,000 | 60 |
The action will kick off at 12 pm local time and it will be a quick turnaround for the players since play didn't wrap until nearly 3 am last night. They will need to bring their A-game with the majority of the prizepool still at stake. They are each guaranteed at least €5,990 but the winner will be taking home €71,620.
The blinds will resume at 10,000/25,000 with a big blind ante of 25,000. The levels will continue to be 60 minutes in length to begin the day but they will be reduced to 45 minutes with six players remaining and 30 minutes with three players remaining. There will also ba redraw once the final table of nine is reached. At that point, PokerNews will switch their coverage to a delay to remain in sync with the live stream.
Follow along with the PokerNews live reporting team to find out who will walk a champion by the end of the day.
and both players checked to the 
on the turn. 
completed the board. Heidelbacher fired out another bet of 265,000 and Sesay wasted little time before making the call. Heidelbacher turned over 
for the nut flush and Sesay mucked his cards.
gave Rinkevicius a set of sevens and things looked grim for Sesay. The 
on the turn gave him a straight draw but the 
on the river was not meant to be as Sesay was eliminated in 10th place.
and Jantunen was still in a commanding lead with his pair of eights. Petrauskas was looking for a six but the 
on the turn nor the 
on the river would save Petrauskas.
on the river bricked off and Ireland was eliminated in eighth place.
and Jantunen shoved all in for his last 235,000 chips. Heidelbacher asked for the count before making the call.
on the turn narrowed Jantunen's outs and the 
and Beretta was still out front with his king-high. However, the