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Carmelo Crucitti tops EPT12 Malta Main Event day 1A field

PokerStars qualifier Carmelo Crucitti is leading the €5,300 EPT12 Malta Main Event after Day 1a. The 52-year-old Italian hails from Reggio Calabria, the southernmost Italian region. He bagged 163,000 chips to top the 184-strong Day 1a field.

Brazil's Thiago Nishijima follows in second place with 139,000 while Mikko Turtiainen bult the third biggest stack today, bagging 136,400.

Several EPT champions made Day 2 including Steve O'Dwyer (90,600), Dominik Panka (81,400), Adrian Mateos (72,200), Mohsin Charania (44,800) and Frederik Jensen (28,700), who was the latest entrant. tonight.

Although both having less than the starting stack, Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier (14,700) and Jake Cody (8,700) also belong to the group of EPT champions who survived Day 1a. Team Online's Isaac Haxton has 23,500 while PokerStars Mind Sports Ambassador Jennifer Shahade bagged 51,300.

Other notables amongst Day 1a's 108 survivors are Thomas Muehloecker, Anthony Zinno, Jose Carlos Garcia, Ivan Luca, Charlie Carrel, Christoph Vogelsang and Juha Helppi, who finished second in the €25k High Roller earier in the day, earning €354,400.

Camelo Crucitti

EPT12 Malta Day 1a top five chip counts:

1st - Camelo Crucitti, Italy, PokerStars qualifier, 163,300
2nd - Thiago Nishijima, Brazil, PokerStars qualifier, 139,000
3rd - Mikko Turtiainen, Finland, PokerStars qualifier, 136,400
4th - Noah Vaillancourt, Canada, PokerStars qualifier, 125,800
5th - Ferdinand Le Pichon, France, 117,500

Last season, it was an all-French heads-up as Jean Montury and Valentin Messina cut a deal and then battled long and hard for first EPT Malta trophy. The former eventually scooped the title along with a €687,400 first prize after beating 895-strong field.