Estonian Team OlyBet Pro Raigo Aasmaa just eliminated two players with short-stacks. A player with six big blinds jammed with before the player on the button over-jammed for 7.5 big blinds with . Aasmaa, in the big blind, looked down at and made the call.
While Aasmaa wasn't looking good before the flop, his odds improved when the flop came . He became a heavy favorite after the spiking the turn to give him a flush. His hand was unbeatable against the player with pocket aces, however, his other opponent had one out to a straight flush.
Aasmaa had nothing to worry about after a blank appeared on the river to bring his stack up to 108,000. He kept his momentum going winning another small pot and his stack increased to 122,000.
For the first time, the OlyBet Kings of Tallinn is hosting shot clock events. In about 40 minutes, the €550 NLHE Shot Clock event begins where players will start with 15,000 in chips and blinds increasing every 15 minutes.
The play should prove to be super fast-paced with six-max tables and 30 second shot clocks. If a player doesn't react within 30 seconds or elect to use one of their three time bank chips, their hand will be automatically declared dead.
Additionally, players may be willing to gamble early on since unlimited re-entry is permitted throughout the two hour late registration period.
Players are on their final break of the day. Finnish poker superstar Juha Helppi agreed to chat with us about Kings of Tallinn and more on Facebook Live.
Kelly Limonova has been on a roll the past couple of blind levels and was in the chip lead at the break with 307,000 in chips. Just behind her was Risto Hentunen with 300,000 as the only two players above the 300,000 mark. A bunch of other players were over 200,000 and here is a look at their stacks.
The blinds went up to 1,500/3,000 with an ante of 400. This is the last blind level of the day before Day 3 begins at 12 p.m. tomorrow.
With Patrick Antonius in town and other players with big pockets looking for action there is a €50/€100 pot-limit Omaha cash game scheduled after Day 2 is completed. Juha Helppi confirmed to PokerNews during a quick interview that he plans on joining in on the action.
There are rumors that a €100/€200 limit mixed-game will also kick off tonight as well.
Henri Kasper, who won a live event earlier this festival, is one of the local players still competing in the Main Event after buying in before the start of Day 2 earlier today.
With about 25,000 already in the pot, he fired out 15,000 on a flop after the action was checked to him by Carl Christofer Andersson.
Andersson called and checked again after the paired the board on the turn. Kasper fired out for a second time this time for 22,500, leaving him about 30,000 behind in his stack. Andersson hit the tank for three minutes before he laid down his hand.
Finland's Feras Abid headed into Day 2 with the chip lead but this wasn't enough to get into the money let alone bag chips for Day 3.
He lost more than half his stack before getting the rest of his chips in with ace-king only to find himself very behind the pocket kings held by Lithuania's Arunas Garunkstis.
Abid quickly left the tournament area after the board was of no help while Garunkstis, who was holding an average stack throughout most of the day, propelled himself near the top of the leaderboard with a stack of 275,000.
before the player on the button over-jammed for 7.5 big blinds with 
. Aasmaa, in the big blind, looked down at 
and made the call.
. He became a heavy favorite after the 
spiking the turn to give him a flush. His hand was unbeatable against the player with pocket aces, however, his other opponent had one out to a straight flush.
. Helin checked and then snap folded after Pham went all in for about 50,000.
flop after the action was checked to him by Carl Christofer Andersson.
paired the board on the turn. Kasper fired out for a second time this time for 22,500, leaving him about 30,000 behind in his stack. Andersson hit the tank for three minutes before he laid down his hand.
