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Andreas Chalkiadakis leads IPT7 Malta2 Main Event in to day 2

Last season, the Greek flag was waving at the end of the IPT Malta Main Event and now it's time to put up the blue-and-white banner again.

Andreas Chalkiadakis is leading for Day 2 of the €1,100 tourney and - just like defending champion Georgios Zisimopoulos - Chalkiadis also hails from Athens. The 34-year-old. who has been playing professionally for six years, said his tournament got off to shaky start today as he kept doubling up short stacks. However after the first break, things started improving and continued that way for the rest of the day; he was never all in and managed to win most of his pots post flop and without a showdown, building his stack up to 337,400 to seize the overall chip lead.

Andreas Chalkiadikis

There are 270 players coming back for Day 2 including Team PokerStars Pros Pier Paolo Fabretti (163,100) and Andre Akkari (24,200). Other notables who survived Day 1b were Daniel Stacey (150,600), Ben Heath (113,100), Salvatore Bonavena (77,100) and Tom Hall (43,700).

A massive Day 1b today brought final numbers for the event up to 947 participants from 57 countries. The €918,590 prize pool will shared amongst 135 players with the eventual champ securing €170,030 and a min cash worth €1,810.

In March, Greek pro Georgios "ZISIMO7" Zisimopoulos scooped €142,205 along with the title and trophy. The 27-year-old from Athens, who qualified on PokerStars for his title-defending campaign, also competed today but departed after the dinner break.

IPT MALTA MAIN EVENT HISTORY:

IPT2 Malta1 - 385 players, Michal Pochlopek from Poland for €190,000
IPT2 Malta2 - 237 players, Giacomo Loccarini from Italy for €122,000
IPT3 Malta - 131 players, Marco Figuccia from Italy for €82,000
IPT7 Malta1 - 1,285 players, Georgios Zisimopoulos from Greece for €142,205
IPT7 Malta2 - 947 players, €170,030 for the winner

IPT7 Malta2 - €1.100 Main Event day 1A+1B

BUY-IN: €1.100
ENTRIES: 947
REMAINING: 270
PRIZE-POOL: €918.950
WINNER: €170.030
ITM: 135
MINCASH: €1.810

#	Name	Country	Chipcount	Table	Seat
1	Andreas Chalkiadakis	Greece	337.400	11	9
2	Danut Chisu	France	291.000	19	6
3	Alessio Russo	Italy	283.900	30	5
4	Alessio Peciarolo	Italy	274.200	2	3
5	Massimo Di Cicco	Italy	263.300	16	4
6	Henry Broens	Netherlands	241.100	17	6
7	Benjamin Richardson	Australia	240.000	14	8
8	Giuseppe Zarbo	Italy	236.000	21	3
9	Olgun Ercan	Turkey	228.200	8	3
10	Antonio Mitrotta	Italy	212.400	12	7
35	Robert Hána	Czech Republic	144.900	6	4
36	Rocco Palumbo	Italy	144.600	9	1
46	Luca Pagano	Italy	131.900	29	9
63	Jonathan Roy	Canada	116.400	18	1
64	Nils Jarefjall	Sweden	115.300	28	1
99	Dermot Blain	Ireland	94.000	29	3
106	Milan Cicka	Slovakia	88.600	13	7
115	Andrew Chen	Canada	84.100	5	1
128	Mickey Petersen	Denmark	79.100	1	9
134	Salvatore Bonavena	Italy	77.100	9	5
135	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	76.800	19	9
155	Antoine Saout	France	68.700	11	5
161	Gaelle Baumann	France	67.500	26	2
165	Mikko Hirvonen	Finland	64.600	11	3
197	Dara O'Kearney	Ireland	48.800	24	6
213	Matthias De Meulder	Belgium	45.000	12	5
220	Tom Hall	UK	43.700	14	2
236	Carlo Citrone	UK	35.200	30	1
241	Jan Stanek	Czech Republic	33.300	26	8
242	Marcin Wydrowski	Poland	33.300	25	7
257	Andre Akkari	Brazil	24.200	5	7
263	Jan Nozicka	Czech Republic	17.800	7	7
270	Erwann Pecheux	France	8.000	7	8