PokerStars Summer Festival Malta €1,100 Main Event to Play Down to Winner Today

The PokerStars Summer Festival Malta, running at the InterContinental Hotel, will conclude today with the Final Day of the Main Event starting at 12 p.m. local time.

A total of 916 entries were made to the event, which made for a prize pool of €879,360.

There are just 11 players left in contention. The next player out will take €11,300. The eventual winner is set for a payout of €153,610.

WSOP bracelet winner Simone Andrian of Italy starts the day as chip leader with 5,280,000 chips. He is tailed by Marcin Lesniewski of Poland with 4,780,000. In third place is David Docherty of Scotland, who took down the Irish Open earlier in the year and is eyeing up his second major title of the season.

FINAL DAY CHIP COUNTS

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Simone Andrian	Italy	5,280,000	105
2	Marcin Lesniewski	Poland	4,780,000	95
3	David Docherty	United Kingdom	3,755,000	75
4	Fotios Ntamaris	Greece	3,235,000	64
5	Marco Regonaschi	Italy	2,800,000	56
6	Biger Larsen	Norway	1,990,000	40
7	Eros Nastasi	Italy	1,985,000	39
8	Tommy Nguyen	Norway	1,280,000	25
9	Antoine Talvard	France	1,250,000	25
10	Emmanouil Asgoudakis	Greece	880,000	17
11	Grzegorz Skawinski	Poland	850,000	17

Blinds on the Final Day will start at 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 big blind ante and will run for 75-minutes with a break every two levels.

There are a couple of players who are short stacked and so the final table could come around quickly. The average stack is 50 big blinds, though, and so the Main Event is still anyone's for the taking.

The event will play down to a winner today and PokerNews will be bringing live updates of the Final Day straight from the tournament floor.