Day 1a of the Kings of Tallinn €555 Championship attracted a banner field of 107 entries to already bring the prize pool up to €50,290.
A total of 44 players bagged chips after 10 levels of play with Juri Vassin (211,500) and Gediminas Dirmantas (209,000) both parlaying their 30,000 opening stack into more than 200,000 in chips. Here is a look at all of the Day 1a survivors.
Player | Chips | Big Blinds |
Juri Vassin | 211,500 | 106 |
Gediminas Dirmantas | 209,000 | 105 |
Juris Hlibovs | 185,500 | 93 |
Mart Rinken | 183,500 | 92 |
Benjamin Gros | 130,500 | 65 |
Luca Sebastiani | 123,500 | 62 |
Sergei Guljajev | 111,000 | 56 |
Vasilij Barna | 105,000 | 53 |
Peep Kivistik | 105,000 | 53 |
Vadim Guk | 103,000 | 52 |
Marko Vest | 98,000 | 49 |
Maksim Petrov | 97,000 | 49 |
Andrei Melnikov | 93,000 | 47 |
Kalle Aberg | 90,000 | 45 |
Erki Leedmaa | 82,000 | 41 |
Ronald Randma | 80,000 | 40 |
Josep Pastor De Ramon | 72,000 | 36 |
Pavels Spirins | 71,500 | 36 |
Julien Fuchs | 70,500 | 35 |
Lukas Soucek | 64,500 | 32 |
Mario Munoz Martin | 63,500 | 32 |
Arturs Baskinovs | 57,000 | 29 |
Helina Tamm | 55,000 | 28 |
Alger Pissarev | 54,500 | 27 |
Theophile Tristan George | 53,000 | 27 |
Yanis Mehdi Sahli | 51,500 | 26 |
Julius Seskevicius | 51,500 | 26 |
Artjom Kovalevski | 50,000 | 25 |
Mark Metsla | 47,500 | 24 |
Hanno Kerem | 44,000 | 22 |
Joel Lindpere | 43,700 | 22 |
Raiko Laane | 43,000 | 22 |
Aleksi Naski | 39,500 | 20 |
Joonas Kulli | 34,500 | 17 |
Richard Bauer | 33,500 | 17 |
Rimvydas Svedas | 30,500 | 15 |
Osku Karttunen | 27,500 | 14 |
Jari Porkka | 27,500 | 14 |
Romain Gravisse | 24,500 | 12 |
Kalle Parkkinen | 21,500 | 11 |
Igor Pihela Jr. | 21,500 | 11 |
Jaakko Tirkkonen | 18,500 | 9 |
Andres Aro | 17,500 | 9 |
Marek Liiva | 13,500 | 7 |
The Kings of Tallinn has once again made its triumphant return to Olympic Park Casino and the adjoining Hilton Tallinn Park for 53 numbered events from Feb. 24 to March 5.
For the first time ever, Main Event Travel is on the floor to provide full coverage of not only the €500,000 guaranteed Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event but also the Kings of Tallinn €555 Championship, where our coverage will begin. Rest assured there will be familiar faces reporting with both Jason Glatzer (in English) and Juhani Tyriseva (in Finnish) will be bringing the action to your doorstep.
The Kings of Tallinn live-reporting coverage will kick off on Sunday, Feb. 26 with the second of four opening flights of the Kings of Tallinn €555 Championship. Players will start off with a massive 300 big blind stack with 30,000 in chips with blinds increasing slowly every 40 minutes throughout the event with tomorrow's Day 1d providing the only exception with 25-minute blind levels.
Players can not only re-enter throughout each of the opening flights but can also do so until late registration closes after the conclusion of the first blind level on Tuesday's Day 2. Players will continue to battle out on Tuesday until a winner is crowned.
Last year, the title in this event unexpectedly headed to the Land Down Under with Australia Rasmus Sepping (pictured below) coming out on top of a field of 278 entries to win the €27,140 top prize. This year is bound to be even bigger based on early attendance in some of the other side events and the many players piling into Tallinn as the hours pass by.
Stay tuned to our coverage starting on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 12 p.m. as we bring you the highlights of the Kings of Tallinn!