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Ivarsson leads for day 3 of the EPT12 Malta Main Event

Portomaso Casino is the EPT's southernmost venue in Europe, but the EPT12 Malta Main Event chip leader hails from Scandinavia with Sweden's Alexander Ivarsson bagging 529,200 to seize the lead for Day 3 with 131 players left (36 eliminations away from the money).

The 27-year-old Ivarsson grew up in Sundsvall and now lives with his wife in Stockholm. The former engineering student is a poker pro and back in March at the EPT Malta debut stop, he cashed three times. He finished 24th in the EPT Main Event back then, which is his best result in the tour's flagship event so far.
Ivarsson is a member of Team 3000 which he started with friends, as a joke; however the team now counts some of Sweden's biggest poker stars amongst its ranks including Kent Lundmark, Robin Ylitalo, Christian Jeppson and Adrian Bussman.

Another Scandinavian follows in second place, Finland's Samuli Sipila, who has 466,500. Also coming back with big stacks for Day 3 tomorrow - and a good chance of making the money - are Faraz Jaka (375,200), Daniel Dvoress (321,100) and EPT12 Malta €25k High Roller champ Mike McDonald (314,200), who spiked a two-outer in today's level to survive and score a massive double up.

Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden, who's tied with fellow Team Pro Luca Pagano for most EPT Main Event cashes, also made Day 3. The Norwegian has 102,000 and will look for his 21st cash tomorrow. Matthias De Meulder is another Team PokerStars Pro who survived, bagging 45,600.

In a bid for the coveted title, 651 players (including one no-show) bought in to compete in the €5,300 EPT12 Malta Main Event, battling for shares of a €3,157,350 prize pool, divvied up between 95 paid positions. The eventual champion will take home €602,400 along with the title and a coveted trophy.

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 the first EPT Malta trophy. The former eventually scooped the title along with a €687,400 first prize after beating 895-strong field.

Alexander Ivarssom

EPT12 Malta Main Event - den 2

BUY-IN: €5.300
ENTRIES: 651
REMAINING: 131
PRIZE-POOL: €3.157.350
WINNER: €602.400
ITM: 95
MINCASH: €9.320 (72.-95.)

Blindys- 1.500/3.000/A400

#	Name	Country	Table	Seat	Chipcount
1	Alexander Ivarsson	Sweden	16	8	529.200
2	Samuli Sipila	Finland	17	2	466.500
3	Erik Scheidt	Germany	2	3	447.700
4	Giulio Spampinato	Italy	10	4	406.500
5	Jens Lakemeier	Germany	13	4	385.000
6	Jaroslaw Sikora	Poland	3	3	377.700
7	Faraz Jaka	USA	7	1	375.200
8	Pawel Brzeski	Poland	13	7	372.100
9	Andreas Chalkiadakis	Greece	8	6	358.600
10	Farid Jattin	USA	7	3	339.200
13	Mike McDonald	Canada	9	6	314.200
17	Štefan Vágner	Slovakia	11	3	275.500
19	Chistoph Vogelsang	Germany	12	4	240.300
25	Ivan Luca	Argentina	12	6	219.800
26	Dan Smith	USA	17	1	214.200
27	Thomas Muehloecker	Austria	1	8	209.200
29	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	13	6	207.100
49	Dominik Nitsche	Germany	8	4	166.700
50	Sam Greenwood	Canada	11	4	163.000
53	Antoine Saout	France	6	3	149.600
54	Shannon Shorr	USA	10	8	149.000
55	Ilan Boujenah	France	5	3	146.000
68	Chris Hunichen	USA	17	8	113.900
69	Marcin Wydrowski	Poland	8	5	113.400
73	Gerald Karlic	Austria	2	7	106.800
74	Isaac Haxton	USA	14	4	106.500
75	Johnny Lodden	Norway	6	7	102.400
78	Mohsin Charania	USA	16	6	98.400
79	Steve O'Dwyer	Ireland	14	6	98.100
82	Bryn Kenney	USA	17	4	95.000
88	Max Silver	UK	15	7	85.300
97	Joni Jouhkimainen	Finland	12	7	76.800
100	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	11	2	70.700
103	Michael Gathy	Belgium	17	7	63.600
111	Paul Berende	Netherlands	16	3	53.000
112	Dara O'Kearney	Ireland	7	6	50.300
115	Matthias De Meulder	Belgium	12	2	45.600
116	Adrian Mateos	Spain	8	3	45.000