Day 1d added another 111 entries to the mix to bring the total up to 617 entries in the WSOPC Tallinn €1,500 Main Event. This figure will continue to grow as players can still late-register and re-enter during the first two blind levels of Friday's Day 2 which kicks off at noon.
Finland's Eemil Tuominen was the only player in the Day 1d flight to find a bag north of 200,000. Check out all of the chip counts from Day 1d below:
| Player | Chips | Big Blinds |
| Eemil Tuominen | 242,000 | 97 |
| Jarmo Salonen | 189,000 | 76 |
| Henri Antikainen | 165,000 | 66 |
| Ingus Arajs | 161,000 | 64 |
| Vasilij Barna | 154,000 | 62 |
| Max Avela | 152,000 | 61 |
| Antti Veerberk | 147,000 | 59 |
| Khalid Dghaim | 146,000 | 58 |
| Albert Gorelik | 145,000 | 58 |
| Arturs Sutens | 137,000 | 55 |
| Eedi Kirves | 134,000 | 54 |
| Richard Koppel | 127,500 | 51 |
| Karl Relander | 115,000 | 46 |
| Julian Selinger | 114,000 | 46 |
| Joshua Marquardt | 114,000 | 46 |
| Karolis Kutkauskas | 112,000 | 45 |
| Christopher Berggren | 109,500 | 44 |
| Elias Vaaraniemi | 104,500 | 42 |
| Emanuele Mari | 100,000 | 40 |
| Giovanni Memola | 99,500 | 40 |
| Atte Franssila | 99,000 | 40 |
| Aleksandr Arutjunov | 99,000 | 40 |
| Kalle Salmela | 98,500 | 39 |
| Christoffer Bering | 98,000 | 39 |
| Steven Tool | 93,500 | 37 |
| Jari-Pekka Juhola | 93,000 | 37 |
| Konsta Heikkila | 92,000 | 37 |
| Benjamin Dixon | 87,000 | 35 |
| Ranno Sootla | 84,000 | 34 |
| Marek Selgeveer | 84,000 | 34 |
| Martin Koppl | 83,000 | 33 |
| Baavo Pohlak | 82,500 | 33 |
| Martin Piik | 82,000 | 33 |
| Jeffrey Sarwer | 80,000 | 32 |
| Egon Kaljulaid | 75,500 | 30 |
| Vladimiras Meckovskis | 74,500 | 30 |
| Rikard Relander | 74,000 | 30 |
| Jyrki Lampinen | 73,500 | 29 |
| Luca Beretta | 73,500 | 29 |
| Johan Karlsson | 71,000 | 28 |
| Rasmus Lundstrom | 69,500 | 28 |
| Anna-Mari Hursti | 66,500 | 27 |
| Vincas Tamasauskas | 65,000 | 26 |
| Saku Turtia | 65,000 | 26 |
| Martin Lategui | 63,000 | 25 |
| Justas Semaska | 57,500 | 23 |
| Mairo Tori | 57,500 | 23 |
| Teemu Sanaksenaho | 57,500 | 23 |
| Tomi Bondarew | 55,000 | 22 |
| Roope Holma | 52,000 | 21 |
| Janne Havio | 50,000 | 20 |
| Verneri Sivula | 49,500 | 20 |
| Joel Ylismaki | 48,500 | 19 |
| Charles-Eric Benoit | 39,500 | 16 |
| Herli Olop | 36,500 | 15 |
| Danel Kunman | 36,000 | 14 |
| Kaido Kuusemae | 34,000 | 14 |
| Inigo Serrano Robles | 31,500 | 13 |
| Juho Sallinen | 30,000 | 12 |
| Kalle Parkkinen | 29,500 | 12 |
| Tomas Molcan | 27,000 | 11 |
| Markku Koplimaa | 26,000 | 10 |
| Jose Koistinen | 17,500 | 7 |
As the players bags their chips we wait for the official counts from the tournament staff.
Stay tuned to the blog to see the full one as soon as we lay our hands on it. Until then check out today's pictures in the Gallery or go to Olybet.tv to see the results from all of the side events going on here at the same time as the Main Event.

The clock stopped here at 09:43 minutes left of level 10 and the tournament director announced we are playing the last five hands for today and then the remaining players will bag their chips before it all resumes again tomorrow at noon.
66 players remain of the 110 entries made in the 1D flight but as we already said you can buy in until the tournament starts again at noon tomorrow.

Level 10: 1,000/2,000 (2,000)
Entries: 67/110
The chess protege Jeff Sarwer hasn't been seen for quite some time now as he popped up as one of the familiar faces in the Main Event sitting over at table ten together with some other familiar faces as Ranno Sootla, Vasilij Barna, and Johan Karlsson.
The last satellite to the €1,500 Main Event here in the WSOPC Tallinn is about to start with a huge overlay as only 26 players are in and there's a 15-seat guarantee in this turbo satellite. If you are here in Tallinn, rush down (or up) to the casino for the last chance to grab a seat in this tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of €1 million.

We're on the last level of the night with 69 players remaining of the 110 entries made in this flight. The blinds are now up to 1,000/2,000 with a big blind ante of 2,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johan Karlsson | ![]() |
77,000 | 0 |
| Armend Sahiti | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Level 9: 1,000/1,500 (1,500)
Entries: 69/110
Just before going to the break Johan Karlsson found himself in a difficult decision against Armend Sahiti. Before the flop Sahiti hade raised and Karlsson had pushed it up even further leaving 19,1K when the two saw the flop . Sahiti who had flat called pre flop pushed all-in for 22k and Karlsson tanked for quite a while before making the call.
Sahiti:
Karlsson:
Sahiti had an open-ended straightdraw and the on the turn gave him the nut straight but the
on the river gave Karlsson the nut flush and the pot of 60,000.
"Wait, what happened there? Did I get a flush?", Karlsson commented as the dealer pushed the pot over to him. "Wow, I only saw his straight there", said Karlsson and swiped away the sweat on his forehead as he laughed: "Nice".
The pot left the good old King's of Tallinn winner with a comfortable 118,000 going to the last break of the day until we have one more hour to go.

| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johan Karlsson | ![]() |
77,000 | 0 |
| Armend Sahiti | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
The players are on their last break of tonight here in the fourth and last flight in the WSOPC €1,500 Main Event. 79 out of the 110 entries still have chips in front of them and we picked up some notable stacks and names as they were away which you can below.
Swedens Christopher Berggren seems to be the chip leader with 192,000 in his stack even though he lost that big pot against Massimo Casabona (pictured below) a little bit earlier tonight.

| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Berggren | ![]() |
192,000 | 137,000 |
| Jarmo Juhani Salonen | ![]() |
155,000 | 105,000 |
| Max Avela | ![]() |
143,000 | 93,000 |
| Jari-Pekka Juhola | ![]() |
138,000 | 28,000 |
| Gianpaolo Memola | ![]() |
127,000 | 77,000 |
| Rasmus Lundstrom | ![]() |
116,000 | 66,000 |
| Vasilij Barna | ![]() |
112,500 | 62,500 |
| Roope Holma | ![]() |
105,000 | 55,000 |
| Saku Turtia | ![]() |
92,500 | 42,500 |
| Vincas Tamasauskas | ![]() |
88,000 | 38,000 |
| Jeff Sarwer | ![]() |
51,000 | 1,000 |
| Alexander Selinger | ![]() |
50,000 | 0 |
We are on the last two levels of day 1D and 81 players remain from the field of 108.
One of the players who fired a bullet both in this field and in day 1C was the former WSOP finalist from back in the day is Swede Erik Friberg who we haven't seen playing for a while now. Welcome back, Erik!

Here are some pictures from the fourth starting day here in the WSOPC €1,500 Main Event from our brilliant photographer Tambert Kask. All of the pictures from the Main Event you'll find in the gallery above.

Photographer Elena Kask

Kristopher Kuusk

Martin Koppl

Kaljulaid Keito

Eedi Kirves

Hanno Kerem

Kristopher Kuusk

Massimo Casabona

Vladimiras Meckovskis

Niklas Mikael Vakkuri

Janne Olavi Havio

Verneri Topias Sivula
The former Kings of Tallinn winner Johan Karlsson decided to join the action and booked a flight here yesterday. He's also one of the players in day 1D and after playing some small ball poker he's built his stack to 77,000 as we reach the end of the event out of ten levels here tonight.

| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johan Karlsson | ![]() |
77,000 | 27,000 |
We are now over 100 players with a couple of hours left of the first day here in day 1D. We still haven't reached the guaranteed prize pool of €1 million and there's still time to buy in until the play starts tomorrow at noon.

On the last hand of the last level three players saw the flop . The three musketeers was Sweden's Christopher Berggren, Lithuanian WSOP bracelet winner Vincas Tamasauskas and Italian Massimo Casabona.
Tamasauskas lead out 3,200 which was called by Casabona and Berggren decided to pop it up to 12,000. Tamasauskas went out of the way while Casabona pushed all-in for 33,000. After some consideration, Berggren called and we had a showdown.
Casabona:
Berggren:
The turn came and river
which doubled the Italian's stack to 70,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massimo Casabona | ![]() |
70,000 | 29,000 |
| Christopher Berggren | ![]() |
55,000 | 5,000 |
WSOP Circuit Tallinn Tournament Director Teresa Nousiainen announced to the Main Event crowd a Midnight Madness mega satellite.
The €150 buy-in event, which guarantees 15 Main Event seats valued at €1,500 each, was just added to the schedule for tonight at midnight.
The 15 (or more) players that win a seat will join others for tomorrow's Day 2 when late registration will close before the start of the third blind level of the day.
Best of luck to all satellite players!

As day 1D is on it's fifth level we've spotted two familiar faces in the tournament floor. Estonian Ranno Sootla and Vincas Tamasauskas are both former WSOP bracelet winners on the hunt for a ring to match with it in the €1,500 Main Event.

| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vincas Tamasauskas | ![]() |
50,000 | 0 |
| Ranno Sootla | ![]() |
50,000 | 0 |
You can't accuse Steven Tool for not being eager to build his stack in this tournament as he just fired his fourth bullet in the Main Event when entering the day 1D flight here a couple of hours ago. He sit's with an healthy 90,000 in front of him and fingers crossed this bullet will be more successful than the first three for our Estonian player.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Tool | ![]() |
90,000 | 40,000 |
91 players decided to jump into this last starting day so far. This is the last of the four starting flights in the €1,500 Main Event and will be a turbo in comparison to the first three starting days.
After the first break of the day we have a few notable stacks in the field with Martin Koppl and Jari-Pekka Juhola as spotted with more than double the starting stack of 50,000 with 110,000 each. Below you'll find some other notable stacks.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jari-Pekka Juhola | ![]() |
110,000 | 60,000 |
| Martin Koppel | ![]() |
110,000 | 60,000 |
| Massimo Casabona | ![]() |
99,000 | 49,000 |
| Kristian Kostiander | ![]() |
95,000 | 45,000 |
| Robert Berg | ![]() |
87,000 | 37,000 |
| Juhana Konttinen | ![]() |
77,000 | 27,000 |
| Luka Sorainen | ![]() |
70,000 | 20,000 |
| Kristopher Kuusk | ![]() |
65,500 | 15,500 |
| Eedi Kirves | ![]() |
65,000 | 15,000 |
The action continues at full speed with the last flight of the 2023 WSOPC Tallinn €1,500 Main Event which started at 19:00 and already has more than 70 players registered. This is the player's last chance to enter Day 2 of the main event where the prize pool is €1 million guaranteed.
The flight starts with 50,000 chips for each player, but this one has the blinds increase every 30 minutes. The chips will be flying and players will battle it down for the last seats into Day 2.
We begin coverage for this event at 21:15 at level 5 with blinds at 300/600 and a 600 big blind ante, since the last flight overlaps with Main Event Day 1C.