Action folded around to Grzegorz Skawinski, who pushed all in from the button for 745,000. Tommy Nguyen asked for the chip count and then isolated all in from the small blind. After waiting for the other table to finish the hand, he and Skawinski flipped their cards, with Skawinski at risk.
Grzegorz Skawinski: J♠10♥
Tommy Nguyen: K♥Q♥
The board ran out 6♠9♦Q♦J♣2♠. The flop brought Swakinski a straight draw and Nguyen a pair of queens. The turn also brought Swakinski a pair of jacks, but the river came a blank and Nguyen held with his queens.
Skawinski was eliminated from the tournament in 10th place for €11,320.
With that, the tables broke and action went to the final table.
Action folded around to Emmanouil Asgoudakis, who pushed all in from the cutoff for 705,000. He was called by Marcin Lesniewski in the small blind. Players flipped their cards, with Asgoudakis at risk.
Emmanouil Asgoudakis: J♠J♥
Marcin Lesniewski: 10♦10♠
Asgoudakis was well ahead with his pocket jacks against Lesniewski's tens. However, the board ran out 10♣9♣9♦2♠K♠ to give Lesniewski a full house on the flop.
Lesniewski held and Asgoudakis was the first to bust on the Final Day. He was eliminated from the tournament in 11th place for €11,320.
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
Simone Andrian
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.