Play in the fourth starting day of The Festival in Malta has now finished and 70 of the 149 entries have progressed to Saturday's second day. Rozvadov Main Event Champion Prisiyan Tsvetanov has gone through, with an above average stack of 114,000. The chip leader on 165,000 is another Tsvetanov, but with first name Martin. They're not actually related, but did travel here together and are room mates.
One of the other big stacks from the day on 130,800 is Estonian Marko Keskel, who's name should be familiar to anyone following the story of The Festival in Malta, as he was the winner of the Blackjack tournament. Player of the Series in Rozvadov Thomas Gugerbauer is another player to make it into Day 2 from this flight, bagging 61,400.
One player who had a roller coaster ride today was Englishman Kenny Burke. In the early exchanges of the day he was whitled down to just 300 chips after losing an unfortunate hand where he had turned a straight only for his opponent to river a better one. However Kenny then went on a tear, rebuilt huis stack, getting up to as high as 85,000 at one point and ended the day on 61,400, exactly the same stack as Gugerbauer.
| Position | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Martin Tsvetanov | Bulgaria | 165,000 |
| 2nd | Marek Svacha | Czech Republic | 146,700 |
| 3rd | Dimitrios Katsikas | Greece | 142,300 |
| 4th | Marko Keskel | Estonia | 130,800 |
| 5th | Bart Dil | Netherlands | 124,600 |
| 6th | Jimmy Dewerdt | France | 117,300 |
| 7th | Louise Ingram | Australia | 117,100 |
| 8th | Presiyan Tsvetanov | Bulgaria | 114,600 |
| 9th | Jordi Ribatallada Ruiz | Spain | 113,900 |
| 10th | Mark Anthony Vella | Malta | 110,500 |
| 11th | Nenad Skalonja | Switzerland | 106,500 |
| 12th | Pasquale Grimaldi | Italy | 93,600 |
| 13th | Georgios Grigoropoulos | Greece | 93,200 |
| 14th | Ivo Petkov | Bulgaria | 89,800 |
| 15th | Antonio Privitera | Italy | 88,500 |
| 16th | Lucas Liljegren | Sweden | 88,300 |
| 17th | Stevan Gvozdenovic | - | 87,800 |
| 18th | Inguson Kristijan | Iceland | 87,100 |
| 19th | Alexandrs Golubevs | Latvia | 85,000 |
| 20th | Matus Schnierer | Slovakia | 84,000 |
| 21st | Lachezar Tsenov | Bulgaria | 77,800 |
| 22nd | Ander Heidmets | Estonia | 77,400 |
| 23rd | Alessandro D'Amore | Italy | 76,300 |
| 24th | Salvatore Ritrovato | Italy | 76,200 |
| 25th | Youri Van Poppel | Netherlands | 74,200 |
| 26th | Dario Ciravegna | Italy | 71,900 |
| 27th | Daniel Kuhlmann | Germany | 66,400 |
| 28th | Firoz Kadirbaks | Netherlands | 65,600 |
| 29th | Timothee Rey | France | 64,500 |
| 30th | Kenny Burke | England | 61,400 |
| 31st | Thomas Gugerbauer | Austria | 61,400 |
| 32nd | Igor Bukowski | Poland | 60,100 |
| 33rd | Yoan Dody | France | 59,100 |
| 34th | Pawel Wlosinski | Poland | 57,700 |
| 35th | Junyu Liu | China | 56,300 |
| 36th | Janar Kokk | Estonia | 52,100 |
| 37th | Melanie Wohlers | Australia | 50,300 |
| 38th | Julien Bosshard | Switzerland | 49,800 |
| 39th | Shaun Decesare | Malta | 49,800 |
| 40th | Tim Gerwig | Germany | 49,000 |
| 41st | Idan Levy | Romania | 45,000 |
| 42nd | Istvan Magyar | Hungary | 44,300 |
| 43rd | Stephen Jarvie | England | 43,300 |
| 44th | Przemyslaw Zielinski | Poland | 43,100 |
| 45th | Johnny Larsen | Denmark | 42,000 |
| 46th | Giovanni Piccione | Italy | 41,800 |
| 47th | John Nordberg | Finland | 41,700 |
| 48th | Ioannis Gerontas | Greece | 38,700 |
| 49th | Jonathan Stoll | France | 38,700 |
| 50th | Attila Erdei | Hungary | 38,600 |
| 51st | Daniel Aberg | Sweden | 38,500 |
| 52nd | Richard Burke | England | 38,400 |
| 53rd | Emmanuel Sant | England | 37,300 |
| 54th | Steven Fitzpatrick | England | 35,400 |
| 55th | Zane Elorza | England | 34,000 |
| 56th | Lorenzo Pannunzi | Italy | 33,900 |
| 57th | Toivo Ojasoo | Estonia | 33,800 |
| 58th | Dario Marinelli | Italy | 32,500 |
| 59th | Hugo De La Fouchardiere | France | 32,100 |
| 60th | Richard Barnett | England | 31,900 |
| 61st | Sami Hadell | Sweden | 31,000 |
| 62nd | Georgios Efthymiadis | Greece | 30,100 |
| 63rd | Christian Arstad | Norway | 28,600 |
| 64th | Martijn Pellemans | Netherlands | 27,400 |
| 65th | Eleftherios Papangelis | Greece | 27,100 |
| 66th | Jesse Liljegren | Finland | 26,900 |
| 67th | Rinalds Zimka | Latvia | 24,700 |
| 68th | Konstantinos Papadimitriou | Greece | 22,400 |
| 69th | Stefanos Michalidis | Greece | 21,600 |
| 70th | Matiss Celmins | Latvia | 20,100 |
