2020 Kings of Tallinn

€1,100 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2020 Kings of Tallinn

Final Results
Winner
Johan Karlsson
Winning Hand
q5
Prize
€126,900
Event Info
Buy-in
€1,100
Prize Pool
€640,300
Entries
674
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
300,000
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
522
Players Left
264

Venckus with Rockets

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

Steponas Venckus opened from the hijack for 1,200. Ville Jantunen three-bet to 3,400 from the small blind. Venckus four-bet to 6,9000 and Jones called.

Jantunen open-jammed for 22,000 after the {9-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}{j-Clubs} came on the flop. Venckus was covered with 10,000 behind and made the call.

Steponas Venckus: {a-Hearts}{a-Spades}
Ville Jantunen: {a-Clubs}{3-Clubs}

Venckus was ahead but had to sweat a flush-draw from his opponent. No club came the rest of the way with the {j-Hearts} appearing on the turn followed by the {10-Diamonds} on the river and Venckus doubled up.

Player Chips Progress
Steponas Venckus lt
Steponas Venckus
35,000
35,000
35,000
Ville Jantunen fi
Ville Jantunen
12,000
12,000
12,000

Tags: Steponas VenckusVille Jantunen

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/500

Ante: 500

Sand on the Rail

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante

Popular Norwegian player Fiona Sand is on the rail.

She recapped with PokerNews her bad beat experience.

Sand explained that she first flopped a set with {3-}{3-} on a {3-}{7-}{9-} flop and her opponent hit a pair on the flop holding {a-}{7-}. Sand's opponent bet, Sand raised, and she got a call.

Sand improved to a full house after the {9-} came on the turn. Her opponent bet, she jammed her stack and her opponent called.

The {7-} came on the river to give Sand's opponent a better full house. Sand shared she will not likely re-enter at least in Day 1a.

Player Chips Progress
Fiona Sand no
Fiona Sand
Busted

Tags: Fiona Sand

Casino Streamer Lahtinen Jams

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante

Jari Lahtinen is a well-known Finnish slots streamer under the Jarttu84 handle.

Lathinen has shown before in Tallinn that he can also compete in the skill game of poker.

In a recent hand, Hans Fernkvist opened to 1,500 from early position and got calls from Lahtinen and two other players.

Fernkvist bet 3,000 after the {q-Spades}{7-Hearts}{4-Hearts} came on the flop. Lahtinen called and the other two players folded.

Fernkvist fired out again, this time for 6,000 after the {3-Clubs} came on the turn. Lahtinen paused for about 30 seconds before he jammed.

"How much?" asked Fernkvist.

"About 24K," responded Lahtinen.

Fernqvist eventually folded and Lahtinen chipped up without a showdown.

Player Chips Progress
Jari Lahtinen fi
Jari Lahtinen
43,000
Hans Fernqvist se
Hans Fernqvist
35,000

Tags: Jari LahtinenHans Fernkvist

Petrov with 100K

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante

Its hard to tell who is the early chip leader with more than 40 tables in play but it could be Aleksei Petrov who is sitting on a stack of around 100,000 in chips.

Petrov recently picked up some chips in a pot against Radovan Kakulos.

The pot between the two built up to 14,000 with the {7-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{j-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}{2-Diamonds} on the board. Kakulos checked and Petrov bet 8,500. Kakulos tanked for a minute before he tapped the table and folded his hand.

Player Chips Progress
Aleksei Petrov ru
Aleksei Petrov
100,000

Growing and Growing!

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante
Kings of Tallinn
Kings of Tallinn

The Day 1a field is already at 442 entrants. This smashes the previous Main Event record established last year when Vitalijs Zavorotnijs shipped the event for €85,300.

Salminen Chips Up

Level 5 : 200/400, 400 ante

Kaspars Butans opened from the hijack to 1,000 and got a call from Vidmantas Strumskis in the cutoff.

Juha Salminen three-bet to 4,000 from the button. Butans folded and Strumskis called.

Strumskis check-called a bet of 3,000 after the {6-Hearts}{a-Hearts}{5-Spades} came on the flop and both players checked after the {8-Clubs} came on the turn.

The {10-Hearts} completed the board on the river. Strumskis bet 4,500 and got a snap-call from his opponent.

Strumskis turned over {k-Diamonds}{j-Diamonds} and Salminen won the hand after he turned over {a-Diamonds}{q-Diamonds} for top pair.

Player Chips Progress
Juha Salminen fi
Juha Salminen
70,000
Vidmantas Strumskis lt
Vidmantas Strumskis
29,000

Tags: Juha SalminenKaspars ButansVidmantas Strumskis

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 400

Break #2

Level 4 : 150/300, 300 ante

Players are on their second break of the day. Action will resume in 15 minutes with blinds at 200/400 and a big blind ante of 400.

Previous Champs Helppi and Zavorotnijs in the Field

Level 4 : 150/300, 300 ante

Juha Helppi shipped the Kings of Tallinn Main Event in 2018 and Vitalijs Zavorotnijs did the same last year. Both are in action today hoping to become the first two-time champion.

Other notable player in action are Fabrice Soulier, Jason Wheeler, Chris Da Silva, Sebastian Wahl, Dominik Panka, Veli-Pekka Alakorva, Henri Kasper, Rauno Tahvonen, and Tarmo Tammel.

Player Chips Progress
Juha Helppi fi
Juha Helppi
30,000
30,000
30,000
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
Sebastian Wahl fi
Sebastian Wahl
30,000
30,000
30,000
Veli-Pekka Alakorva fi
Veli-Pekka Alakorva
30,000
30,000
30,000
Jason Wheeler us
Jason Wheeler
30,000
30,000
30,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Fabrice Soulier fr
Fabrice Soulier
30,000
30,000
30,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Tarmo Tammel ee
Tarmo Tammel
30,000
30,000
30,000
Dominik Panka pl
Dominik Panka
30,000
30,000
30,000
WSOP 1X Winner
EPT 1X Winner
Henri Kasper ee
Henri Kasper
30,000
30,000
30,000
Rauno Tahvonen ee
Rauno Tahvonen
30,000
Chris Da-Silva gb
Chris Da-Silva
30,000
30,000
30,000

Tags: Fabrice SoulierJuha HelppiSebastian WahlTarmo TammelVitalijs Zavorotnijs