4.24pm: Break timePlayers are actually on their second break of the day. The remainder two levels of the day may be in anew update here.

4.20pm: Bad beat for JeschkeJonas Jeschke just suffered an uncongenial exit. He was all-in with A♣K♦ against Jaroslaw Sikora's A♥J♣ however the board came 8♥7♠9♣Q♠J♠.

"Ouch," said the German.

Sikora is as much as 820,000

4.06pm: De Meulder outThe last Team PokerStars Pro within the IPT, Matthias De Meulder, is out. He pushed with king-queen for his last 160,000 but bumped into Nandor Solyom's ace-jack. The Romanian is as much as 480,000.

3.59pm: Mclean eliminatedEPT10 London finalist Leo Mclean has just been knocked out. He called all-in at the river of a 7♥8♣3♣4♣7♦ board against Julian Track. Track showed J♣9♣ for a turned flush and Mclean's J♥J♠ was not good.

Jamila Von Perger, still within the hunt with not up to 70 players left

3.53pm: Guy doing wellGuy Bachar, who finished both Day 1 and Day 2 third in chips, is doing even better today. The Israeli player has 1,460,000 at this point and is the chip leader.

3.42pm: O'Dwyer bluff failsOn the turn of a 3♣5♠K♠Q♠ board, Giuseppe Comitini checked and Steve O'Dwyer bet 75,000. The Italian called before checking the 6♥ river, O'Dwyer bet 150,000 this time, most of his stack and Comitini called again.

O'Dwyer sighed and showed 4♠4♦, Comitini won the pot with Q♣T♣.

3.30pm: Zsemlye doubles upViktor Zsemlye just got a vital double up, he pushed for 180,000 with A♣K♣, Pavlos Benakis making the decision with T♣T♠. The board came 6♠A♦3♦9♠2♦ and Benakis was knocked back to 560,000.

3.21pm: Level 20 - 5,000/10,000 (1,000)The players have moved onto the fourth level of the day.

3.20pm: €2k IPT High Roller draws big fieldThere are already greater than 250 players seated within the IPT Malta €2k High Roller. After a record-breaking IPT Main Event, and giant fields for all of the other local tour high rollers this season, the Malta edition is predicted to draw huge numbers. Among those already playing are Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree, PokerStars-sponsored PCA 2014 winner Dominik Panka, PCA 2013 champ Dimitar Danchev, WSOP runner-ups Jorryt van Hoof and Jesse Sylvia plus EPT9 Player of the Year Jan Bendik, Chidwick, Dermot Blain, Patrick Leonard, Kitty Kuo, Fabio Sperling, Michel Abecassis, Steven van Zadelhoff, Ruben Visser, Frederik Jensen, Sam Greenwood and Simon Ravnsbaek. 15 players have won their seat via yesterday's live satellite here within the Portomaso Casino

3.12pm: Alvarado wins bigJC Alvarado just added a considerable selection of chips to his stack, eliminating Rain Heeringas within the process. All of the money went in on a 6♠5♦T♠ flop, Alvarado having flopped two pair with 6♥5♥ against Heeringas' nut flush draw A♠4♠. The 8♦ at the turn gave the Estonian a gutshot besides however the Q♦ on river was a blank. Alvarado is as much as 800,000

3.04pm: Chip leadersAt this point there are 86 players remaining, the five biggest stacks at this point seem to be the following:

Hendrik Koops - 1,000,000Mike Neuens - 980,000Hugo Lemaire - 950,000Georgi Abuladze - 850,000Glenn Cymbaluk - 840,000

2.52pm: Lin doneXia Lin is out, he ran J♦J♠ into Klevis Pali's K♠K♦ with the board coming 8♥T♠7♥3♠2h]. Pali is now as much as 320,000.

2.42pm: 'bout tree fiddyTeam PokerStars Pro Matthias De Meulder moved all in excessive of an initial 17,000 raise, Luca Fiorini then reshoved behind him and the unique raiser folded.

De Meulder: A♥Q♠Fiorini: J♣J♥

The board came 8♦6♥Q♦2♦Q♣ and De Meulder increased his stack to over 350,000.

2.34pm: Lemaire still in chargeHugo Lemaire has increased his stack further, he's the primary player to achieve seven figures, the Frenchman has 1.1 million.

2.30pm: Koops doubles through BizA huge double up for Hendrik Koops, all in with J♥J♦ against Mustafa Biz' A♣Q♠. The board ran out J♠3♦5♦A♠7♣ and Koops moved up over 600,000 while Biz was left crippled.

Martin Jacobson busted after about two hours of play

2.20pm: Level 19 - 4,000/8,000 (1,000)Players are back from break and cards are within the air.

2.07pm: Urbanovich final tables the midnight HyperturboNot content with taking down the €25k High Roller at EPT Malta yesterday for €572,300, Polish pro Dzmitry Urbanovich took good thing about that event's early finish and managed to slot in another tourney last night. He joined a 183-strong field within the first midnight Hyperturbo of the EPT Malta Poker Festival - with a rather smaller €500 buy-in - and finished eighth. The €2,405 prize isn't even 0.5% of what he won earlier within the day! Swedish player Niclas Adolfsson took the trophy and €19,660; his last cash was at EPT Prague when he made the overall of a €1k side event. Joao Vieira, up a number of the top three within the race to be EPT Player of the Year, got in some early Malta Bronze POY points by finishing third for €9,135.

2.05pm: Break timePlayers are at the first break of the day.

1.54pm: Jacobson outWSOP Main event champion Martin Jacobson spent the simpler a part of two hours grinding a brief stack but news has just are available in that the Swede has just been eliminated. Other players to be eliminated include Andreas Papadopoulos, Georgy Filippovich, Savvas Omirou, Guillaume Valle and Andreas Vlachos.

1.43pm: Bellanca finishedGiorgio Bellanca is out, he called all in against Benjamin Fourgerouze with 9♥9♦ against A♣Q♣ however the board ran out K♠Q♠K♣A♥5♠ and Fourgerouze knocked out the Italian. Roughly 120 players remain

1.29pm: Triple up for McleanLeo Mclean shoved preflop for just over 60,000 before Yordan Petrov also reraised all in. It was passed to Ognyan Dimov and he called all in as well.

Mclean: A♦K♥Petrov: Q♦Q♥Dimov: T♦T♥

The board came K♣5♣9♣K♠4♣ - no-one had a club and so Mclean scooped the primary pot to transport as much as 195,000. Petrov picked up a small side pot, eliminating Dimov.

1.20pm: More people goneThe latest players out include Nihat Karyagdi, Sharon Suissa, Sebastiano Giudice, David Longmate, George Daniel Ghioca, Richard Toth, Enrico Scalabrino, Domenico Gala and Giuseppe Veneziano Broccia.

1.11pm: De Meulder finishedGame over for Team PokerStars Pro hristophe De Meulder, he pushed nines into Michal Maryska's jacks to bust out in 135th place. He's immediately gone across to rail his brother Matthias.

Last remaining Team PokerStars Pro Matthias De Meulder

1.01pm: Level 18 - 3,000/6,000 (1,000)The second level of the day has begun.

12.55pm: More eliminationsViatcheslav Ortynskiy, Duane Baillet, Dario Sorrenti, Marko Mikovic, Tonny van Eck, Jordi Urlings and Antonio Leotta all did not survive the primary level of Day 3.

12.49pm: Lemaire increases leadOn the turn of an A♦A♠4♣6♦ board Hugo Lemaire raised Michal Maryska's 32,000 bet to 80,000. The Czech player made the decision to look the 9♦ river, Maryska checked and Lemaire moved all in. Maryska tanked for approximately four minutes before the clock was called on him, the clock ran down and his hand was mucked. Lemaire looks to be over 900,000 now.

12.42pm: Vamplew goneDavid Vamplew managed a double up with queen-six against ace-four, but then immediately had queens run into aces a couple of hands later, spelling the tip for the EPT champion. Timothee Colcher got knocked out by A♣A♠, hence belonging to Julian Track. Colcher had A♦Q♠ and the A♥9♣7♥5♣2♥ board changed nothing

12.38pm: More exitsClaudio Pagano, Jari Mahonen, Remo Marti, Tony Nadau, Paolo Labiance, Christopher Howden, Alexander Ivarsson, Bastien Legret and Cuomo Bartolomeo are the most recent players to be eliminated.

12.31pm: Heitmann eliminatedTeam PokerStars pro Jan Heitmann have been knocked out, in step with Balazs Botond the German player pushed for 90,000 over a raise with pocket nines only to search out Giorgio Bellanca behind him with pocket tens.

12.21pm: Exits a-plentySo far Auke Attema, Leonardo Maria Armino, Adrian Ko, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Gregor Abmayr, Dimitrios Farmakoulis, Paolo Pellegrini, Piotr Zawadzki and Ruben Tack have all been knocked out.

12.09pm: Wrobel doubles through De MeulderNot an ideal start for Team PokerStars Pro Christophe De Meulder who just doubled up short stack Tomas Wrobel with 6♣6♠ against K♣K♦. Wrobel moved as much as 90,000 while De Meulder dropped to 235,000.

12.00pm: Level 17 - 2,500/5,000 (500)The first of today's six levels is under way.

11.53am: Welcome to Day 3 of the IPT Main EventThere are only 168 players returning for Day 3 of the most important ever IPT event. Hugo Lemaire leads with 689,500 but three Team PokerStars Pros remain with Matthias De Meulder (293,500), Christophe De Meulder (282,000) and Jan Heitmann, (115,900). Today, the tournament will play another six levels with out a dinner break meaning play should end around 6.30pm CET.

Team PokerStars Pros Jan Heitmann and Christophe De Meulder

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