EPT Malta: Scott Margereson beats star-studded final to land PokerStars Open title
Scott Margereson emerged champion in the 1,845-entrant €1,650 PokerStars Open Malta 2025 Main Event. Margereson took home the €423,700 top prize and a coveted Shard.
Margereson was third in chips when the remaining 14 players returned for the final day.
His surge to the pinnacle took off after the last redraw. Margereson eliminated Ioannis Oikonomidis in nith place and later added a big chunk thanks to a nut flush against Siarhei Sochneu.
Gerard Carbo and Margereson pulled away from the rest of the contenders, and they would turn the advantage into reaching heads up.
The two leaders dismissed the rest of the opposition, with Garbo notching consecutive knockouts of Barny Boatman, Ana Marquez, Modar Alsoud, and Donato De Bonis and narrowing the field to four.
Gerard Carbo was the dominant force until Margereson took over
Margereson then took over and busted Evaldas Aniulis with pocket jacks versus ace-eight and Sochneu with ace-jack over sevens.
Still, the Englishman was roughly a three-to-two underdog heading into the deciding match against Carbo. Margereson, however, quickly pulled ahead, picking off a bluff.
The gap continued to grow wider and Carbo soon found himself maneuvering the last 20 big blinds. He snap-called Margereson’s light shove, but failed to hold with ace-nine against seven-six. A six on the turn proved the winning card for the 32-year-old from Chesterfield.
With the €423,700 payout, Margereson has improved his all-time live tournament tally to nearly $4.4 million. He has now moved to 26th place in England, according to The Hendon Mob.
PokerStars Open Malta 2025 Main Event final table results:
1st – Scott Margereson, UK, €423,700
2nd – Gerard Carbo, Spain, €264,650
3rd – Siarhei Sochneu, Belarus, €188,900
4th – Evaldas Aniulis, Lithuania, €145,350
5th – Donato De Bonis, Italy, €111,850
6th – Modar Alsoud, Germany, €86,500
7th – Ana Marquez, Spain, €65,950
8th – Barny Boatman, UK, €50,700
Reporting by Jan Kores, EPT Media Co-ordinator
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