Welcome to the Final Day of the 2018 OlyBet Kings of Tallinn Main Event
Welcome to the Final Day of the 2018 OlyBet Kings of Tallinn €1,100 Main Event at Olympic Park Casino. After four days of play, the field of 268 entrants was trimmed down to a nine-max final table with all players having their eyes on the €62,000 top prize.
Blind levels begin at 12,000/24,000 with an ante of 3,000 and increase every 60-minutes as has been the case throughout the festival. Additionally, breaks are scheduled every two blind levels.
A total of five players from Finland are represented at the final table including Day 4 chip leader Totti Matias Arusuo, who has almost one-quarter of the chips in play with a stack of 1,959,000.
Juha Helppi, who has been playing in the big €50/€100 pot-limit Omaha cash games with €200 and €400 straddles with Patrik Antonius and others throughout the festival, heads into the final table in second place with 1,400,000. Other Finns at the final table include Arto Ilmari Loikkanen (third - 1,137,000), Quang Thanh Doan (sixth - 643,000) and Arto Antero Lehtonen (seventh - 626,000).
Lithuania has the second most players represented at the final table with two. Arunas Garunkstis starts the day in fourth place with 989,000 in chips and [Removed:174], who took seventh place in the same event last year, starts off in fifth place with 647,000 in chips.
Sweden and Finland each have one player represented at the final table and both players are the short stacks with Sweden's Shahin Shirazi Nejad starting things off in eighth place with 347,000 and Silver Nommik in ninth place with 278,000 in chips.
Cards will be in the air at 1 p.m. EET and will be streamed on a 30-minute delay on Twitch, Facebook, YouTube and here on PokerNews by clicking on the live stream tab in our coverage. The entertaining Kristjan Laas will be behind the booth announcing the action with all hole cards exposed.
Stay tuned at PokerNews as we will report all of the important hands and eliminations on the same delay starting at 1:30 p.m.
2018 OlyBet Kings of Tallinn Final Table Seat Assignment
| Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shahin Shirazi Nejad | Sweden | 347,000 |
| 2 | Arunas Garunkstis | Lithuania | 989,000 |
| 3 | [Removed:174] | Lithuania | 647,000 |
| 4 | Arto Antero Lehtonen | Finland | 626,000 |
| 5 | Arto Ilmari Loikkanen | Finland | 1,137,000 |
| 6 | Quang Thanh Doan | Finland | 643,000 |
| 7 | Totti Matias Arosuo | Finland | 1,959,000 |
| 8 | Silver Nommik | Estonia | 278,000 |
| 9 | Juha Helppi | Finland | 1,400,000 |
from the cut-off and was called by Arunas Garunkstis from the big blind with 
. 
needing a pair of runners for a save. The 
on the turn wasn't one of them and Nommik's fate was sealed.
completed the board on the river and the title will not stay in home soil. 
.
. His lead became a little less with flush draws opening for Doan when the 
appeared on the turn. 
and got called by Totti Matias Arosuo with 
from one seat over and Arto Antero Lehtonen with 
flop gave Lehtonen two-pair, however, Arosuo had him dominated with a set. Both Lehtonen and Loikkanen checked before Arosuo bet 105,000.
on the turn and the 
, [Removed:174] called with 
from late position before Totti Matias Arosuo called from the big blind with 
gave both Helppi and Arosuo, who had the two biggest stacks on the table, sets. Arosuo and Tamasauskas checked before Helppi bet 120,000. Arosuo raised to 295,000 and Tamasauskas got out of the way.
paired the board on the turn and Helppi called.
from the big blind.
on the turn and the 
. Helppi didn't waste too much time to call.
flop didn't help Arosuo, however, the 
on the turn opened up more outs with an open-ended straight-draw. However, the 
flop. He caught up on the 
turn to give him a pair and Garunkstis was eliminated in third place for €25,000 after the 
completed the board on the river.
appeared on the turn. However, the