Mauri Dorbek began today as the chip leader, however, his stack dwindled before the first break and he is now eliminated from the tournament in 17th place.
Seppo Lehtonen opened up with a limp for 5,000. Mauri Dorbek without looking at his cards declared he was all-in from the small blind. Rauno Tahvonen raised to 17,500 from the big blind and Lehtonen got out of the way.
Dorbek:
Tahvonen:
Dorbek didn't appear happy until the flop came giving him eight out to a straight. The on the turn was of no help, however, the on the river gave him the straight temporarily tripling his stack to 24,500.
On the next hand, Dorbek was all-in and was unable to catch up against Viacheslav Novoselov who was holding
In just an hour, action will resume at Olympic Park Casino for the second and final day in the 2016 888Live Tallinn $30,000 Guaranteed Main Event. Less than half the 80 player field survived yesterday's action with 33 players competing today for a piece of the €28,800 prize pool.
Nine players will cash in this tournament for at least €1,000 with the top prize of €9,000 and the coveted trophy to the winner.
Currently, Estonia's Mauri Dorbak is sitting on top of the field with a healthy 159,900 chip stack with blinds set to resume at 1,000/2,000 and an ante of 300. Dorbak is one of the most successful Estonian players sitting in seventh place on The Hendon Mob Estonia All-Time Money List with $310,657 in live tournament cashes.
Not too far behind him is fellow Estonians Enri Orav with 150,700 in second place and Urmo Velvelt with 120,000 in third place. Rounding out the top five are Ukraine's Dmitri Gaškov in fourth place with 119,900 and Denmark's Jens Riis, who was at the casino last night late celebrating his birthday, in fifth place with 90,200.
According to the big board, the average chip stack is currently at 57,575 chips, representing almost 29 big blinds.
Also today is the $5,000 Bounty Freeroll for players that qualified into the Main Event through 888poker that are already eliminated in the Main Event. Additionally, tonight at 11:00 p.m., players will be invited to party the night away at VaBank nightclub.
Stay tuned to our live reporting here at PokerNews for updates throughout the day.
giving him eight out to a straight. The 
on the turn was of no help, however, the 
on the river gave him the straight temporarily tripling his stack to 24,500.
and was unable to catch up against Viacheslav Novoselov who was holding 
