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After more than nine hours of play on the final day, Scotland’s Lewis Coffin defeated Lithuania’s Martynas Brazdzionis heads-up to win the 2023 Malta Poker Festival €550 Grand Event powered by Unibet DeepStack Open at the luxurious Portomaso Casino for €100,600.

Coffin began in the bottom third of the pack out of the 18 hopefuls to advance to the final day. He was even short at one point early on at the final table and could have easily been out the door but his queen-nine got there with his short stack against the ace-five to double through La Sengphet.

This was easily the largest cash for Coffin who came into the Malta Poker Festival with a shade over $33,000 in cashes as tracked by The Hendon Mob, of which more than $21,000 came in a tournament in London earlier this month.

The Grand Event (and the entire festival) lived up to its name as it was truly grand. The €300,000 guarantee slapped on this event was absolutely shattered by nearly double with 1,226 entries coming out in full force to create a huge €588,480 prize pool.

MPF Spring Edition Grand Event Final Table Payouts

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Lewis Coffin	United Kingdom	€100,600
2	Martynas Brazdzionis	Lithuania	€75,690
3	Oliver Said	Malta	€55,420
4	Angelo Patane	Italy	€37,400
5	Kjetil Hanstvedt	Norway	€20,150
6	La Sengphet	United States	€14,850
7	Tomasz Caba	Poland	€11,400
8	Fabio Aprile	Italy	€9,050
9	Joszef Hegyi	Hungary	€7,550

Final Day Action

The action was down to just 18 hopefuls on the final day in the hunt for the title, each locking up at least €3,350. Brazdzionis held a commanding chip lead to start the day and never looked back until there were just three players left.

His lead was maintained while Paolo Aleo, Arnaud Cressent, Michael Gavurnik, Chris Da Silva, Maik Buss, Salvatore Ritrovato, and Lasse Jacobsen all hit the rail.

Brazdzionis then ousted both Vlad Ardeneanu and Raoul van Wersch to extend his lead to one-third of the chips in play with the final table set to begin.

It continued to be all Brazdzionis early at the final table as well. His Lithuanian rail instantly grew and his lead grew as well as he sent both Fabio Aprile (eighth – €9,050) and Unibet Poker qualifier Joszef Hegyi (ninth – €7,550) to the rail in succession. Check out the interview below with Hegyi, who has qualified four times for UDSO packages at Unibet Poker by Unibet DeepStack Open founder Alex Henry.

Brazdzionis’ elimination streak came to an end with Oliver Said sending Tomasz Caba (seventh – €11,400) to the rail when his queen ten proved to be good again ace-deuce.

As we already mentioned, Coffin could have then easily been out against Sengphet, which took place the last hand before the dinner break. Sengphet was a little late coming back as the short-stack and nearly laddered up in the process but Said earned a chop with ace-seven against Coffin’s ace-ten suited to stay alive. Shortly after, Coffin continued to move up the ranks by eliminating the short-stack Sengphet in sixth place for €14,850 when his queen-trey held against five-four.

Kjetil Hanstvedt then took a small chink out of the armor of Brazdzionis to double his stack with fours against big slick. His survival actually created a viral hand shortly after.

Said got it in with jacks against Hanstvedt’s pocket rockets and asked for a jack. Instead of one jack, two jacks came on the flop but he wasn’t out of the woods yet as Hanstvedt improved to a full house when an ace came on the turn. The fourth ace didn’t show its face on the river and Handstvedt soon was eliminated by Said in fifth place for €20,150 when his nines were no good against ten-trey with the jack-seven-six flop. Said hit two runners for a straight and was close to the chip lead.

Meanwhile, Brazdzionis continued to accumulate chips and had two-thirds of the chips in play after he eliminated the short-stacked Angelo Patane (fourth – €37,400) when his queen-jack held against queen-eight.

The players then discussed a deal but nobody appeared to be happy with the numbers. So the action went on and no deal was discussed the rest of the way.

The tides turned, mostly in favor of Coffin, shortly after that. Coffin first won a flip for his tournament life when his fives were good against Said’s ace-jack. He then took the chip lead and never looked back. Coffin jammed the river with the nut flush with ace-jack suited and doubled through Brazdzionis after his opponent called with a lower flush with six-trey suited.

Brazdzionis was the short stack with under 15 big blinds when Said decided to make a move. He jammed with king-queen on a ten-nine-deuce flop. Coffin woke up with cowboys and Said won the third-place trophy along with a tasty €55,420 top prize.

The final duo went on a short break with Coffin holding a massive 8:1 chip advantage over Brazdzionis. The heads-up battle was over before it began lasting just one hand. Coffin jammed the button with king-six and eliminated Brazdzionis in second place for €75,690 after his hand held against jack-ten.

A massive congrats to Lewis Coffin on his amazing MPF Grand Event victory for €100,600!

It’s been an absolute pleasure reporting the MPF Grand Event all week and we look forward to seeing you again! À bientôt!

Check out the last batch of photos from the 2023 Malta Poker Festival Grand Event powered by Unibet DeepStack Open.

Place	Player	Prize
1	Lewis Coffin	€100,600
2	Martynas Brazdzionis	€75,690
3	Oliver Said	€55,420
4	Angelo Patane	€37,400
5	Kjetil Hanstvedt	€20,150
6	La Sengphet	€14,850
7	Tomasz Caba	€11,400
8	Fabio Aprile	€9,050
9	Joszef Hegyi	€7,550
10	Vlad Ardeleanu	€6,150
11	Raoul van Wersch	€6,150
12	Paolo Aleo	€5,050
13	Arnaud Cressent	€5,050
14	Michal Gavurnik	€4,150
15	Chris Da Silva	€4,150
16	Maik Buss	€3,350
17	Salvatore Ritrovato	€3,350
18	Lasse Jacobsen	€3,350
19	Shaun Halliday	€3,350
20	Alessandro Furneri	€3,350
21	Lars Eriksson	€2,820
22	Serguei Skrypnikov Laviolle	€2,820
23	Humberto Galindo	€2,820
24	Bogdan Juc	€2,820
25	William McMurray	€2,820
26	Jostein Groedum	€2,820
27	Alex Montgomery	€2,470
28	Antonino Karman	€2,470
29	Michal Kulesza	€2,470
30	Marko Luksa	€2,470
31	Jonathan Therme	€2,470
32	Vincenzo Scarcella	€2,470
33	Scott Roberts	€2,470
34	Louis Le Boisselier	€2,470
35	Ulf Andersson	€2,470
36	Lucien Jouanneau	€2,170
37	Cedric Offner	€2,170
38	Christopher Collins	€2,170
39	Joaquim Ferriera	€2,170
40	Koen Meutstege	€2,170
41	Mikael Bjertrup	€2,170
42	Fabrizio Nobile	€2,170
43	Antonio Chille	€2,170
44	Erik Lindqwist	€2,170
45	Andrei Mjagkov	€1,920
46	Manoj Navani	€1,920
47	Paul Young	€1,920
48	Noel Studer	€1,920
49	Rauno Kiviloo	€1,920
50	Giovanni Nava	€1,920
51	Chen Keren	€1,920
52	Robert Boon	€1,920
53	Daniel Toffel	€1,920
54	Kerryjane Craigie	€1,720
55	Georgios Georgiou	€1,720
56	Ian Gascoigne	€1,720
57	Peter Kaspar	€1,720
58	Thomas Hofmann	€1,720
59	Damir Savio	€1,720
60	Thomas Petit	€1,720
61	Torben Krogh	€1,720
62	Olga Liscsinzky	€1,720
63	Presiyan Tsvetanov	€1,720
64	Kevin Houghton	€1,720
65	Salvatore Incardona	€1,720
66	Guiseppe Loreto	€1,720
67	Daniel Spavin-Haigh	€1,720
68	Simon Taylor	€1,720
69	Theo Schmitt	€1,720
70	Corentin Viaud	€1,720
71	Serdar Demircan	€1,720
72	Dost Ghrabie	€1,520
73	Johannes Grootelaar	€1,520
74	Edward Chun Ho Yam	€1,520
75	Paul Maguire	€1,520
76	Daro Berisa	€1,520
77	Jemery Bametz	€1,520
78	Emil Karhu	€1,520
79	Zaheer Zeb	€1,520
80	Stepan Brychta	€1,520
81	Roland Boothby	€1,520
82	Erik Ostergaard	€1,520
83	James Thody	€1,520
84	Attila Kassitzky	€1,520
85	Maciej Toma	€1,520
86	Daniele Staropoli	€1,520
87	Benjamin Rensen	€1,520
88	Ertan Cicekdemir	€1,520
89	David Ozmen	€1,520
90	Sjoerd Nikkels	€1,320
91	Santaluna Baldassare	€1,320
92	Daoud Abu	€1,320
93	Kaspar Schmid	€1,320
94	Liwei Wang	€1,320
95	Fabio Coppola	€1,320
96	Amber Glasby	€1,320
97	Per Moller	€1,320
98	Aurelien Giard	€1,320
99	Katie Swift	€1,320
100	Pieter Koedijk	€1,320
101	Philip Roberts	€1,320
102	Fabio Sturba	€1,320
103	Thomas Lowter	€1,320
104	Marian Ivanov	€1,320
105	Pavle Pecelj	€1,320
106	Yannick Rohrbach	€1,320
107	Eduardo Terrivel	€1,320
108	Leon Campbell	€1,320
109	Fabian Fleischmann	€1,320
110	Antonios Onourfriou	€1,320
111	Luke Pace	€1,320
112	Robert Teunissen	€1,320
113	Anastasios Apostolou	€1,320
114	Firat Cankaya	€1,320
115	Dejan Dabetic	€1,320
116	Grant Pirie	€1,120
117	Robrecht Winterink	€1,120
118	Arn Kungl	€1,120
119	Ashley Wilson	€1,120
120	Callum Gordon	€1,120
121	Torsten Riedl	€1,120
122	Kaloyan Kirov	€1,120
123	Anthony Whalley	€1,120
124	Massimo Bruno	€1,120
125	Mantas Petrauskas	€1,120
126	Michael Frost	€1,120
127	Fraser Mackenze	€1,120
128	Paolo Rando	€1,120
129	Andrew Cutajar	€1,120
130	Giulio Spaminato	€1,120
131	Rob van Embden	€1,120
132	Jonathan Schuman	€1,120
133	Anton Shroter	€1,120
134	Matthew Adams	€1,120
135	Ian Swan	€1,120
136	Boris Zismanov	€1,120
137	Julien Gadanho	€1,120
138	Nicky Molmans	€1,120
139	Thomas Steedman	€1,120
140	Giuseppe Signorelli	€1,120
141	Oscar Arezzo	€1,120
142	Samuel Biland	€1,120
143	Olav Kok	€1,120
144	Raimondo Marcello	€1,120
145	Thibault Branly	€1,120
146	Andrei Musat	€1,120
147	Nauseda Grazvydas	€1,120
148	Daniel Kuhlmann	€1,120
149	Lars Halkier	€1,120
150	Joseph East	€1,120
151	Ivan Picavet	€1,120

Level 34: 300,000/600,000 (600,000)
Entries: 1/1,226

Heads-up action lasted exactly one hand. Lewis Coffin jammed the button before Martynas Brazdzionis called off his stack of 12 big blinds.

Martynas Brazdzionis: J♣10♥
Lewis Coffin: K♣6♥

A crowd consisting of both players’ rails gathered around the table as soon as the cards were turned over.

Coffin was ahead on the 2♠8♦7♣ flop but Brazdzionis had both of his over-cards and the nine for a straight alive.

“Don’t look,” shouted the Lithuanian rail. “Nine, Nine, Nine, Nine!”

No nine came on either the 3♣ turn or the 5♠ river and neither of these cards helped in any other way for Brazdzilionis to fall one player shy of winning the title after having the chip lead most of the final day.

Congrats to Lewis Coffin for winning the 2023 MPF Spring Edition Grand Event powered by the Unibet DeepStack Open for €100,600!

Stay tuned for the full payouts and the recap of the final day.